The Flavour Thesaurus

Last week I was in Lisbon for the launch of the Portuguese edition of The Flavour Thesaurus. To José Prata and Susana Almeida at Lua de Papel: muito obrigada. We had a wonderful time. And a very good lunch in a restaurant-come-cave called the Gruta do Paraíso (Rua do Paraíso 62), recommended to us by Célia Pedroso and Lucy Pepper. You can buy O Dicionário dos Sabores here (or read about it here).

The Spanish edition of The Flavour Thesaurus, La Enciclopedia de los Sabores, is published by Debate and is available here

La Grammatica dei Sapori, the Italian version of The Flavour Thesaurus, is now out. It’s published by Gribaudo and is available here

Masterchef’s John Torode picks The Flavour Thesaurus as one of his foodie must-haves in this weekend’s Daily Mail Magazine.

The German edition of The Flavour Thesaurus, Der Geschmacksthesaurus, is out today. It’s published by Bloomsbury Berlin and the translator is Maria Mill.

Buy it here

I’ll also be reading from The Flavour Thesaurus at the Small Wonder Short Story Festival at Charleston, East Sussex, on Sunday 25 September at 12 noon.

I’m giving my talk on ‘What Makes a Great Flavour Combination’ at the Abergavenny Food Festival at 11am on Sunday 18th September. More details here

This coming Sunday, the 24th July, I’ll be giving a talk on flavour combinations at the Port Eliot Festival in St Germans, Cornwall.

The Dutch edition of The Flavour Thesaurus – De Smaakbijbel – was launched in Amsterdam last week. Many thanks to Joost Nijsen of Podium Books for hosting, to the brilliant Jean Beddington for cooking, to Joost’s colleagues Harminke Medendorp, Emmelie Muisjers and Krista Verweij, and to everyone else who helped make it such a fun and enlightening afternoon. If you’re in Amsterdam, you must go to Jean’s restaurant. In the meantime here’s a video of me and (for Dutch-speakers) Jean talking about the book for FoodTube.NL

You can buy De Smaakbijbel here.

Very honoured that The Flavour Thesaurus has won the Guild of Food Writers’ Jeremy Round Award for best first book.