I have always been a passionate admirer of Diana Henry's; in her, I find a kitchen kindred spirit. Her new book covers slightly new territory (I say slightly, because her robust and yet poetic attitude is still prevalent) in that it addresses what some might call 'healthy' food, but I prefer to see is 'templefood'. As ever, her recipes are gorgeously greed-inducing, and the feel of the book — the beauty of its photographs should be mentioned here — is calmly but gloriously uplifting. I could really have singled out any one of the recipes, to be frank, but I plumped (if this is the right word here) for the Japanese Rice Bowl, as it called to me most insistently.
Japanese Rice Bowl from A Change Of Appetite by Diana Henry, published by Mitchell Beazley, 2014.
Photographs by Laura Edwards.
