Josceline dimbleby recipes for chicken

I hadn&#;t originally planned to include Josceline in my celebration of s-and-older cookbooks. But then I was reminded of her by Maggie.

It made me realise that apart from one of my favourite old standbys, her fusion of blanquette and goulash, I hadn&#;t cooked any of her recipes for absolutely ages. Maggie says &#;Thirty years ago, way before Nigella, we had a &#;posh&#; cook in the guise of Josceline Dimbleby.

Josceline dimbleby recipes for chicken thighs

She is a great, innovative cook and I can&#;t understand why she isn&#;t more widely known and more highly regarded&#;.

Me neither! I first encountered her via a book picked up in a second hand shop for 50p, entitled Taste of Dreams.

It was a good introduction, highlighting her creative, unusual approach, with dishes that are often titivated to within an inch of their lives presentation-wise (the water-lily timbale is a shocker, a flat cake of carrots and avocado wrapped in spinach and surrounded by chicory leaves like petals ).

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