Butter: A Celebration

by Olivia Potts

Swirled into hot sugar to create a silken, smoky caramel, or browned until nutty and speckled before being folded through cake batter or buttercream. Dotted on to vegetables before roasting or braising, stirred through rice after cooking. Butter won't just transform your individual dishes, but will transform your way of cooking

Butter: A Celebration is a joyous immersion in all things butter, revelling in its alchemical power to transform almost any dish, from good to transcendent.

Award-winning food writer Olivia Potts takes us on a grand tour of butter and its many varied applications, from old school chicken Kiev to mille-feuille, from oysters Rockefeller to saffron and yoghurt tahdig. This is a book to be savoured for its wonderful writing, as well as for its irresistible recipes and expert introduction to patisserie, too. Full of history, anecdotes and, of course, delicious recipes resplendent with butter.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Cooking, Food and Drink, Nonfiction

368 pages, Hardcover

Published September 15, 2022

Reviews

[Alicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

"A joyous immersion" really is right - this is such a happy cookbook! The recipes are written with a lot of detail, as if she's really rooting for you to have all the success in cooking. And everything sounds delicious.

[Izzy Ellis (de Bono) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Completely obsessed! The mark of a good cookbook to me is one I can make cover-to-cover but also inspires me to make the recipes and make them part of my life. This reignited a passion for a somewhat maligned ingredient, and I can't wait to get stuck in

[Dannielle Maguire · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a lovely book! It’s like Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat in that it’s best read like a novel - from start to finish - rather than just randomly picking recipes. It takes the time to sit down with you and teach you about the technique you’re going to be using or what you’re aiming for. But it’s not a massive investment of time because this only goes for about two pages. She doesn’t bang on and on - just digestible, useful chunks of knowledge laced with the kind of language that makes you feel enthused to give something a crack. I reckon these pages are best read with a cup of tea as something of a pep talk before you tackle a recipe. Keep this book handy on like a coffee table or something to come back to when you have a spare five minutes - don’t power through the whole thing in one sitting, but ration it out as a little treat here and there.
My major criticism is that my copy had no ribbon for marking my place.

[Jennie · Rating 4 out of 5]

If I had to describe myself, I think a woman who loves butter is pretty adapt.

Desserts, meat, fruit, it all pairs with butter. Something for everyone.


Highly recommended.

[Loree Dokimenko · Rating 4 out of 5]

Use this cookbook daily, great purchase

[Elina Seppänen · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book was of full five stars - but needed to omit a star due to photo missing for all the recipes. Still, buy & enjoy.