Here, Clarissa Dickson Wright offers guidance on the traditional Sunday lunch with both familiar and new recipes. Johnny Scott, meanwhile, shows just how to carve and serve joints of beef, lamb and pork and of other meats and the birds and fish that may also grace the Sunday table.
Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson Wright is an English celebrity chef and food historian who is best known as one half, along with Jennifer Paterson, of the Two Fat Ladies. Having trained as a lawyer, at the age of 21, Dickson Wright passed her exams and became the country's youngest barrister. She is also one of only two women in England to become a guild butcher.
As a keen cook and someone who has a considerably large number of cookery books I did at first wonder why I was buying a book on the roast. Of all things a roast isn't exactly hard to cook, but now every Sunday this book comes out. Whereas Johnny is there to lend tips on the carving side of things, I admit I skip over that bit, Clarissa in her no nonsense manner just aims for flavour. She succeeds in abundance. My roasts have been transformed from the normal Sunday Roast to an event for the taste buds with no extra effort.