cooking in a rather extraordinary building on Dean Street,Soho, London Town with a very jolly crew cooking things grown & made by good people for good folks
It is the most extraordinary feeling having this book at home. I will never forget the day the manuscript arrived in a near complete form so we could start photography in earnest. For every page turned there was an incredible team and I cannot thank them enough xXx
Honoured and delighted to hold this book in my hands x with grateful thanks to all
@4thEstateBooks
x an amazing crew x
@Waterstones
for early kind words prior to publishing on September 1st x bows deeply
OMG x Dazzled, dazed, astonished and deeply honoured to be nominated in such good company on this prestigious list by
@waterstones
. Many many thanks to all the bonny crew who are a part of this great adventure x x x
Shocked and saddened by the sudden news of Russel Norman who passed earlier today x a unique x brilliant talent x a brightest of lights and great chum of old x x way too young and way too soon x x x x
The return of the vol au vent brimming with spinach x smoked haddock x mussels & clams then a veloute with much and many sea vegetables to jolly all along on the February menu
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x x x
For the giddy hearted and general amour you x the rhubarb & pistachio trifle rekindled from days preparing and serving puddings at Alastair Little x a riotous confection and vital for Cupid capers x x x
When one of the very greats cooks a dinner for a merry crew x The Quiet Man himself x
@CorrigansFood
at the stoves of
@QuoVadisSoho
x so delicious x so appreciated x thank you x with much love from us all x x x x
The morning light in Soho filtering through the coloured glass of our dining room on Dean Street . So good to be back xxx a dear friend very much missed and awakened in pretty good spirits all things considered xxx
The necessity of a Dundee peh x most wanted x most needed and furnished from Fisher & Donaldson by a dear friend who knows just when a prescription is required x Tis a fine breakfast x
The discussion of what is a mince pie continues and should a mince pie be topped with pastry or a cloud of meringue.. indeed, could a mincemeat made of so many good things be ennobled more, with a good custard and much very best cream. I love both equally...
Chocolate tart x made with cru virugna from Original Beans who have some of the finest chocolate which we love to grace all our chocolate puddings x x x
Bowing very deeply at the astonishing and truly humbling array of accolades that C O O K I N G has received. I asked dear
@livmarmar
to draw up this thank you post to all the Titles for their kindness and generosity. Blushing furiously, kisses galore, Merry Christmas, love J 🧡📗
A trout from a loch in the far northern reaches of Scotland on the isle of Rousay in the Orkney Islands x cooked “en papillote” with a leaf of wild garlic x
The continuing adventures of a lemon tart for the February pudding menu
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when we open our doors again on 7th February after much work done to the dining room x
At last. Having awakened the great sleeping dame of Dean Street, the kitchens are once again filled with the bustle and hearty business of cooking delights for good folks x x x x
A dish of roast pork x bitter leaves & sage from the pages of C O O K I N G on the menu
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x x such a joy 🍑🌳🥬🌝🍊🐲🌿🍊🍀🥬🌞🍀🌿🌞🍀🌲🍊🥬🍊🧡🍑🍑🌳🧡🌿🌞🌳🍊🍀🌲🥬🍑🌳🌿🌞🌲🍊🌳🌳🐲🌿🍑🌝
The tomato salad returns x a dinner prepared by the crew at The Seaside Boarding House for a menu with produce from The Ealing Grocer x x such a joy x with grateful thanks to all who joined x x x so special x x x
Summer pudding. Made with a great heap of fruits, berries and currants then made into a rather lovely thing to be served with an ice cream infused with rose geranium, custard and creams
This plate of autumn joy
@QuoVadisSoho
is much that we love. Gorgonzola, grapes, pear, fig, honey, walnuts, etc delightful in every way, cheers along the day x x x
A rather good steamed ginger and marmalade pudding as made by Granny, Mum, Dad and now on the menu
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to warm and comfort on these bright bonny January days and cold winter nights xx
What is this incredibly, unthinkable sad news of Anthony Bourdain? He last ate here with A A Gill. It’s unbearable they both be gone. Shocked and saddened xxxx
The leaves all of a flurry in the wild woods as autumn dons its mantle. The autumn menu
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takes the guise of the Wind in the Willows with bitter leaves and pumpkins x chicories galore and so much more x
Sunday lunch. The pie. A dress rehearsal for
@QuoVadisSoho
launching Quo Vadis at Home next week. We thought to start with a pie. We have teamed up with Big Night to deliver within London for now with a view to going nationwide soonest. Much love x x
A smoked eel sandwich x photography by the marvellous
@EHeatherwick
x x x in a chapter in “ Cooking “ published tomorrow by
@4thEstateBooks
x with love and grateful thanks to all x
Bowled over at such an advent x
@jamieoliver
has chosen C O O K I N G as cook book of the month x could not be more chuffed or honoured x Tis greatly appreciated x with very much love from us all
@4thEstateBooks
&
@QuoVadisSoho
xxx
The marvel that is a medlar x the last autumn harvest x a most curious fruit x which we adore
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x particularly when gifted by friends from trees, orchards & farms such as these from
@EastgateLarder
x thank you so much dear Jane x
We made steamed kid pudding for a dinner
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to celebrate COOKING. so handsomely published by
@4thEstateBooks
x there was too plates of baked salsify x smoked eel x crab & sea vegetable salad x chocolate, marmalade & almond tart & co and a lot of giddy kitchen capers x
Ah x returned from Scotland to this marvellous spread in
@ObsFood
x an excerpt from “Cooking” x among extraordinary company in an issue devoted to restaurants x blushworthy words from Holly O’Neill and a portrait by Phil Fisk x the most grateful thanks to all x bows deeply xx
It does seem to boil down to that simple rule - to buy well, to cook well, to eat well. And as this cook loves to shop as well as cook as well as eat, it’s always a rather jolly adventure. Bon appetit. Xxxx
Reunited at last with the bonniest kitchen crew, setting too chopping, whisking and stirring a menu to life in readiness for Monday
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.mad with joy and quite faint with excitement x x xx
The joy of
@AngelaHartnett
celebrating 15 years of
@MuranoLondon
x x such joy x so spoiling x x hugest love x congratulations x and bravo a brilliant crew x x x
A duet of puddings destined for the dining rooms of
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xxx our last night before we descend into a rollercoaster of building works on a new Quo Vadis opening on February 6th x x such adventures x x x
Good morning. A beautiful sunny morning in Soho as a beguiling light filters through the windows of
@QuoVadisSoho
. Menus and coffee machines. So ace x x x
Photographed in the windows of legendary Three Lives & Co in Greenwich Village x the book having landed safely after crossing the Atlantic to be released in the US x x x so honoured x bows deeply x x.
So delighted, overjoyed and honoured to receive such high praise from one of our fave journos, Leonie Cooper at
@timeoutlondon
.
Thank you with love from us all beyond the bright new shiny edifice at Quo Vadis ❤️
The Quo Vadis Figgy pudding AKA treacle dumpling in Dundee when Granny used to make these for us. Not just for Christmas, these are the most comforting and joyous of puddings when warmth and cosy are needed
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x x x xx
So will you x can you x should you x would you x could you pop a petal on a pudding bringing a blush to meringues most beguiling x oh indeed yes x most certainly x vital methinks xx for a summer pudding menu must enchant xxx
The first summer pudding x an adventure in currants and berries destined for the pudding menu
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x x x with custard and jersey cream of course and I confess I did add some vanilla ice cream too x x x