Beyond Nose to Tail: More Omnivorous Recipes for the Adventurous Cook

by Fergus Henderson, Justin Piers Gellatly

From the proprietor of St. John Restaurant, which won the 2001 Moët & Chandon Restaurant Award, comes this fascinating, cutting-edge guide to preparing carnivorous dishes.

Written in the same entertaining and accessible voice that made Nose to Tail Eating a certified foodie classic, this beautiful new collection of recipes by Fergus Henderson teaches you everything you'll ever need to know to prepare even more mouthwatering, offal classics, from pork scratching, fennel and ox tongue soup, and pressed pig's ear to sourdough loaves and lardy cakes, chocolate baked Alaska, burnt sheep's milk yogurt and goat's curd cheesecake, among others. While taking you through more than a hundred simple, easy-to-follow recipes, Henderson explains why nearly every part of every animal we eat is a delicious treat waiting for the hands of a patient cook to prepare it.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Cooking

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Nose to Tail" is primarily a cook's book, while "Beyond" is for bakers. Not entirely, but that's the feeling imparted, which is interesting not all bad if somewhat disappointing. That said, it's a tidy little volume, by Bloomsbury, and the photographs of Jason Lowe did for me what Henderson's voice accomplished in the first. All in all, a keeper, with recipes for Chocolate Ice Cream, Jacket Potatoes, Bread Pudding - with beef suet! - pea and veal tail consomme, and plenty more to whet the chompers.

[Stephanie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seems impossible for this to be better than The Whole Beast, but it might be? It continues to delight, let's say.

Just as good as the last in writing, with hilarious pictures. My favorite is the face-planting-chef who dives into the apple-calvados trifle, I think it is? And it's mostly desserts, so I don't have to be worried about finding a pig's head, all I need is rhubarb and sugar. Rhubarb is in a ton of recipes, also, which is SO EXCITING because I love rhubarb so very much.

Drawback: recipes are in grams, so you're going to need google or a kitchen scale to use the recipes.

[Monica · Rating 5 out of 5]

My only complaint is that this most excellent book does not warn you of the unexpected difficulties you will have whilst trying to butterfly a dozen pig ears, when a 15 year old cat parks himself on your feet and starts screaming for scraps. It's offal.

Otherwise, it's wonderful. Engagingly written, recipes that are approachable and delicious. And I like the ribbon bookmark, always a good thing in a cookbook.

[Vuk Trifkovic · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely book, but don't pick it up thinking you'll cook too many of those, unless you're seriously dedicated. The food is true to SJ style ad the writing wonderfully off hand and fun, even though it does verge on (self-)parody of ye olde worlde Britishness and some of the photographs are bit 'waheey, aren't we wacky'.

Still, for all its flaws, it's a great little volume from wonderful team...

[Diana · Rating 4 out of 5]

More great cooking, more crazy British food ideas, lots to love, and others that make my stomach turn at the thought. We keep disposable razors in our kitchen now so that my husband can make the 'Trotter Gear' from here - which requires shaving the excess hair off the pig feet. Not pretty, but tasty.

[Raul · Rating 5 out of 5]

Swinederful!! Porktastic! Lardicious! Sow offally good, entertaining, and witty!

[Kim]

undoubtedly this book is wonderful for people who actually enjoy cooking. for me, I don't even know where to get these type of ingredients nor would I like to.
Far too adventurous for me!

[Drahcir10001 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very Entertaining. Fergus writes like no other (at least within the cooking genre). A book to read and enjoy away from the kitchen, as well as one to cook from.

[Mike]

It apparently helps to have a bic razor when cooking pigtails (shiver).

[Dean Jones]

This book, like all the work by Fergus Henderson is very charming and a good read. I don't' know if I would cook everything in this, but I still adore it. This would be a great gift for anyone who loves food.