'Thrust this book into the hands of anyone who thinks they can't cook' - the Sunday Times

Diana Henry shows you how to turn everyday ingredients into something special with the minimum of effort. Cook Simple is packed with over 150 recipes and ideas - many of which Diana has harvested from her world travels - that offer simple ways to make every meal spectacular.

Diana dedicates a chapter to each of 12 everyday ingredient groups: chicken, chops, sausages, leg of lamb, fish, leaves, summer veg, winter veg, pasta, summer fruit, winter fruit, flour and eggs. Each recipe takes only minutes to prepare with ingredients easily sourced from your local supermarket.

Features stunning pictures by award-winning photographer Jonathan Lovekin.

A new edition of the hidden gem at the heart of Diana Henry's extraordinary cookbook repertoire

'Roast Figs, Sugar Snow has been in my kitchen since the day I first opened it. Here is a book that celebrates not only the ingredients of the winter shopping bag, the pumpkins and pomegranates, chestnuts and soft, sweet spices, but the heart and soul of the season. Each paragraph is a carol to what makes the cooking of the cold months something to cherish.' - Nigel Slater

Coming soon from the critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Diana Henry, her classic cookbook Roast Figs Sugar Snow, revisited, revised and refreshed nearly 20 years after its first publication, with a new foreword by Nigel Slater and seven new recipes. Full of comforting delights from cold-weather climes - from the ski slopes of Italy, to the coffee houses of Vienna and Budapest, the rural reaches of New England and beyond - these recipes will bring warmth to your heart as well as your home.

Recipes include:
-Georgian Cheese Pies
-Salad of Smoked Duck with Farro, Red Chicory and Pomegranates
-Pumpkin Tarts with Spinach and Gorgonzola
-Vermont Baked Beans
-Roast Pork with Black Pudding, Apple and Mustard Sauce
-Melting Leg of Lamb with Juniper
-Dublin Coddle
-Snow Biscuits
-Skier's Chocolate with Bugnes
-Roast Figs and Plums in Vodka with Cardamom Cream

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'For bung-it-in-the-oven cooks everywhere, this is a must-have book: Diana Henry has a genius for flavour.' - Nigella Lawson

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The Sunday Times Best Cookbooks of the Year

'This might be Henry's most useful book yet, which is saying something.' - The Sunday Times

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Guardian's Best Cookbooks and Food Writing of the Year

'The shining star is Diana Henry's From the Oven to the Table, in which she faultlessly delivers highly achievable, boldly flavoured dishes.' - Meera Sodha, the Guardian

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Independent's Best Cookbooks of the Year

'A new cookbook from Diana Henry is always a reason to celebrate and From the Oven to the Table is no exception.' - Independent

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Observer Food Monthly 20 Best Food Books of the Year

'There's so much to love about the latest from the Sunday Telegraph writer. Its great strength lies in updating and upgrading food you'll want to produce with a flourish. Deliciously photographed, too.' - Allan Jenkins, Observer Food Monthly

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Daily Mail's Cookery Books of the Year

'Diana Henry is one of Britain's best cookery writers: her recipes are instantly appealing and she's the most elegant of writers. (...) Packed with hearty, highly flavoured dishes, it's the perfect winter cookbook for those days when you need sustenance without putting in too much effort.' - Daily Mail


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Sunday Times Ireland Cookbook of the Year

'Of all the new cookbooks that came into my house this year, this is the one that has been used most often.' - Sunday Times Ireland

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Delicious.magazine's Best Cookbooks of the Year

'Her most simply satisfying book yet? A must-own.' - Delicious.magazine

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'I'm not quite sure how Diana Henry does it but every book she writes is a winner; practical, enticing and evocative. And the recipes always work. This one may seem as simple as it gets (one-pot or tray cooking) but it never ceases to delight.' - Tom Parker Bowles, the Mail on Sunday

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Diana Henry's favourite way to cook is to throw ingredients into a dish or roasting tin, slide them in the oven and let the heat behind that closed door transform them into golden, burnished meals.

Food Book of the Year at the 2019 André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards

The Sunday Times Food Book of the Year

'A masterpiece' - Bee Wilson, The Sunday Times

As featured on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme 'Books of the Year 2018'

'This is an extraordinary piece of food writing, pitch perfect in every way. I couldn't love anyone who didn't love this book.' - Nigella Lawson

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards - Eurospar Cookbook of the year

'Diana Henry's How to Eat a Peach is as elegant and sparkling as a bellini'
- The Guardian 'Books of the Year'

'I adore Diana Henry's recipes - and this is a fantastic collection. They are simple, but also have a sense of occasion. The recipes come from all over the world and each menu has an evocative story to accompany it. Beautiful.' - The Times 'Best Books of the Year'

'...her best yet...superb menus evoking place and occasion with consummate elegance' - Financial Times

'The recipes are superb but, above all, Diana writes like a dream' - Daily Mail

'Any book from Diana Henry is a joy and this canny collection of menus and stories is no exception' - delicious (As featured in delicious. magazine Top 10 Food Books of 2018)

'You can always rely on Diana Henry. Her prose is elegant and evocative, her recipes pure and delectably international. This is perhaps her best yet' - Tom Parker Bowles, The Mail on Sunday 'Essential Cookbooks Published This Year'

'No one quite captures a place, a moment, a taste and a memory like she does. If you've been there before, you're transported back but if you haven't not to worry, she takes you there with her' - The Independent 'Best Books of the Year'

'The stories associated with the meals are what draw you in' - The Herald 'The Year's Best Food Books'

'A life-enhancing book' - The London Evening Standard 'Best Cookbooks To Buy This Christmas'

'...enchanting, evocative menus.' - iPaper

'One of my favourite food writers with a book of 25 themed menus that I can't wait to cook. This is top of my wish list!' - Good Housekeeping 'Favourite Reads to Gift'

When Diana Henry was sixteen she started a menu notebook (an exercise book carefully covered in wrapping paper) in which she wrote up the meals she wanted to cook. She kept this book for years.

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Winner of The Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book of the Year Award 2017

'This is everything I want from a cookbook: inspiration, intelligent company, great good-mood food, and beautiful writing.'
Nigella Lawson

'No one writes about food so beautifully with recipes which are, as the title says, simple to prepare yet always enticing. A treasure both to give and receive.'
Julia Leonard, London Evening Standard

'Her latest book, Simple, is destined to become a classic.'
Daily Telegraph

'Diana Henry's latest release is packed with tasty recipes we want to make again and again'.
Jamie Magazine

'I have always been a fan of this author for her good basics and sensible recipes that taste delicious. She writes well and gets the gastric juices going'.
Irish Examiner

'It's the next best thing to going to a favourite friend's for dinner and knowing that the food will be delicious, you're going to love and be nourished by everything, there won't be a weird fancy table placement and there is no risk that you'll ever run out of wine. Reading her recipes is almost as satisfying as making and eating them.' Daisy Buchanan, The Pool

'A book to adore'
Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday

'Simple is her 10th book, and one of her very best; beautifully written and endlessly inventive, it would make a great gift for anyone interested in good food with minimal effort (i.e. just about anyone).'
Felicity Cloake, The Guardian

'Another outstanding collection of recipes for getting lunch or dinner on the table "quickly and easily, but with pizzazz". It's also a fascinating look at how eating habits have changed over the past decade"
Sunday Times

As featured in Glamour's 'best cookbooks ever written, to help inspire your daily cooking at home'

No-one is better than Diana Henry at turning the everyday into something special. Here is a superb collection of recipes that you can rustle up with absolutely no fuss, but which will knock your socks off with their flavour.

Peppered throughout the book are ingenious ideas such as no-hassle starters and sauces that will lift any dish. From Turkish Pasta with Caramelized Onions, Yoghurt and Dill and Paprika-baked Pork Chops with Beetroot, Caraway and Sour Cream to Parmesan-roasted Cauliflower with Garlic and Thyme, Diana takes the kind of ingredients we are most likely to find in our cupboard and fridge - or be able to pick up on the way home from work - and provides recipes that will become your friends for life.