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Recreate the Connaught Bar’s signature cocktails at home, with over 200 recipes for drinks and homemade ingredients

Step inside one of the best bars in the world and learn how the Connaught Bar’s virtuoso mixologists create 100 elegant cocktails – both contemporary and timeless classics – with easy-to-follow recipes and clear instructions on how to recreate them at home. Alongside expert guidance for essential bar tools, glassware, and spirits, there are 120 additional recipes for homemade syrups, infused spirits, and garnishes that Master Mixologist Agostino Perrone and his team use to make their signature celebrated drinks, including the famed Connaught Martini.

Each cocktail recipe is introduced with a narrative from Perrone about the inspiration and ingredients that make these cocktails truly sensational experiences. With a foreword by legendary chef Massimo Bottura and a preface by Anistatia Miller and specially commissioned cocktail photography by Lateef Okunnu, The Connaught Bar is the ultimate cocktail recipe and hospitality book and companion.

‘When I think about the Connaught Bar, I return again and again to the hospitality, the methodology and the quality experiences that I have experienced there over the past decade.’ – Massimo Bottura 

About the Authors:

Agostino Perrone is Director of Mixology at the Connaught hotel and Connaught Bar in Mayfair, London. After moving from Italy to London in 2003, he worked at a variety of esteemed establishments before moving to The Connaught in 2008, where he has revolutionized the hotel bar scene. His unique approach to hospitality and mixology has garnered international acclaim and accolades.

Maura Milia is Bar Manager and Giorgio Bargiani is Assistant Director of Mixology at the Connaught Bar, London.

Massimo Bottura is the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a globally celebrated three Michelin star restaurant based in Modena, Italy, where he grew up. The restaurant is now in the ‘Best of the Best’ group on the World’s 50 Best List. He has published a number of best-selling books, including Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef and Bread is Gold.

Anistatia Miller is an award-winning drinks historian and cocktail specialist. She is co-director with Jared Brown of Mixellany Limited, a consultancy company that specialises in spirits and mixed drinks. She has written, with Brown, more than 30 books, including Spiritous Journey: A History of Drink.

Since 2011, the Connaught Bar has been in the top ten (including #1 twice) of the World’s 50 Best Bars, which awarded Perrone the Industry Icon Award in 2022. Among the numerous additional honors, there are World’s Best Bartender, Bar Mentor, and Hotel Bar from ‘Tales of the Cocktail’ Spirited Awards.

Massimo Bottura, the world's best chef, prepares extraordinary meals from ordinary and sometimes 'wasted' ingredients inspiring home chefs to eat well while living well.

'These dishes could change the way we feed the world because they can be cooked by anyone, anywhere, on any budget. To feed the planet, first, you have to fight the waste', Massimo Bottura

Bread is Gold is the first book to take a holistic look at the subject of food waste, presenting recipes for three-course meals from 45 of the world's top chefs. These recipes, which number more than 150, turn everyday ingredients into inspiring dishes

About the Author:

Massimo Bottura is the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant that he opened in 1995 in Modena, Italy, which was ranked #1 in the World's 50 Best in 2016. Massimo was interested in cooking from a young age. In 1986, he opened his first restaurant and subsequently developed his love of food while working for Alain Ducasse and Ferran Adrià. Massimo has created Refettorios, soup kitchens that use excess food from supermarkets and local suppliers to provide healthy, seasonal meals for people in need. He is the author of Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef, which was also published by Phaidon.

An exclusive insight into one of the most influential figures in modern Italian gastronomy

Osteria Francescana is Italy’s most celebrated restaurant. At Osteria Francescana, chef Massimo Bottura takes inspiration from contemporary art to create highly innovative dishes that play with Italian culinary traditions. It’s an approach that has won him three Michelin stars and the number one place on the World's 50 Best Restaurant list. 

Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is a tribute to Bottura’s twenty-five-year career and the evolution of Osteria Francescana. Divided into four chapters, each one dealing with a different period, the book features 50 recipes and accompanying texts explaining Bottura’s inspiration, ingredients and techniques. Illustrated with photography by Stefano Graziani and Carlo Benvenuto, Never Trust a Skinny Italian Chef is the first book from Bottura - the leading figure in modern Italian gastronomy.

About the author:

Massimo Bottura is the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three Michelin star restaurant based in Modena, Italy. Massimo grew up in Modena and developed an interest in cooking from a young age after watching his mother, grandmother and aunt in the kitchen preparing family meals. In 1986 he left a law degree to open his first restaurant and subsequently went on to develop his love of food with stages for Alain Ducasse at Louis XV in Monte Carlo and Ferran Adriá at elbulli. He opened Osteria Francescana in 1995.

Contents and sections: 

Torno Subito
From Ten Kilometres Away
Tradition in Evolution
Working-Class Heroes
Image and Likeness
Come to Italy with Me
Avia Pervia
Recipes
Index and Glossary

Haute cuisine comes home. Europe’s most creative chefs reveal their inner sanctum

Ours is the era of the celebrity chef. Like never before, we’re fascinated by fine food and the personalities who create it. Newspapers follow the antics of our favourite cooks both in and out of the kitchen, bake-offs of all kinds become hit TV shows, and chef-owned restaurants have lines trailing around the block. Amid this media frenzy, the world of fine dining can feel removed from our lives.

Inside Chefs’ Fridges brings the heavenly cuisine back down to earth. Touring the European continent, it profiles 40 of Europe’s top chefs alongside their personal home fridges. The result is a revelation, through images and words, of the inner sanctum of culinary creativity, with each chef revealing their dependable fridge contents, their favourite local ingredients, as well as two of their most treasured home recipes.

Stars of this European edition include Joan Roca, Massimo Bottura, Fergus Henderson, Yotam Ottolenghi, Marco Pierre White, Hélène Darroze, Inaki Aizpitarte, Mauro Colagreco, Thierry Marx, and Christian F. Puglisi. Eschewing the media dazzle, this book is instead an inspiring and accessible collection of exclusive insider secrets in which culinary genius meets domestic reality.

This book includes:

- Entries by 40 top chefs from all over Europe, with nearly 60 Michelin stars shared between them.
- Chef #1 and #2 from the World’s Best Restaurant list 2015 and best female chef of the year, Hélène Darroze.
- Two recipes from each chef, with an emphasis on local ingredients and specialities.
- Useful index for quick recipe access.
- Addresses of each chef’s restaurants.
- Illustrations of all 40 fridges plus additional details by Aurore d’Estaing.
- Foreword by Modernist Cuisine’s Nathan Myhrvold.

The photographer:

American born and raised, Carrie Solomon moved to Paris in 2002 and has become one of France’s most well respected culinary photographers. She was awarded the 2011 Prix Eugénie Brazier for her book Saveurs Sauvages, and the laureate prize at the 2010 International Culinary Photography Festival.

The author:

Adrian Moore was born in Toronto and raised in the United States by British parents. He has written articles about culinary trends for a variety of international publications and is currently Assistant Chef Concierge at Mandarin Oriental, Paris. This is his first book.