New food: from the new basics to the new classics. Jill Dupleix. 1996.

‘New food is part Mediterranean, part Asian and part cake’ says Jill Dupleix, as she coaxes and coerces you into the kitchen, Chardonnay in hand.

New food is a healthy way of cooking and eating that is right for right now - food you can cook and eat with joy.

New food is over 200 step-by-step recipes that take you from new basics like preserved lemons, pesto and polenta, to new classics like red pepper rolls, parmigiano gelato and Vietnamese noodle soup.

New food is full of great ideas for breakfast, brunch, picnics and parties, with 24;pages of complete dinner party menus.

New food is new thoughts on olive oil, fast food, shellfish, pasta, tomatoes, herbs, sex and weddings.

New food is new information and ideas we can all live by, like eating our mistakes, using non-stick pans, refusing to buy anything called instant and never apologising for our food.