58 recipes from a misplaced English chef – Joe Devine
On sale at the Lewis Andrews store in Almancil and no doubt elsewhere in the Algarve, this small and easy-to-follow cookbook is not in fact a book about Algarve cookery, but rather a book about cooking in the Algarve.
A small volume, produced in roughly A5 format and with just 144 pages, this is a handy little book full of straight-forward recipes using local Algarve ingredients, covering a broad swath of Mediterranean cooking styles from North Africa to the Eastern Med and all the way back to Portugal.
This is not a cookbook for the serious home cook but is ideal, for example, for self catering holidaymakers who may not know what to buy at local markets and, more importantly, what to do with the ingredients.
Photographs by Ana Paula Carvalho. Price €17.50.
Visit www.misplacedchef.com to check for other outlets selling the book.
By Patrick Stuart
