Champneys Cookbook

by Adam Palmer

Champneys is a fashionable chain of British health resort and Adam Palmer is the group's executive chef. Like the resorts, Palmer's recipes are distinctly upmarket--no bare lettuce leaves here. Instead, there's "Chilled Roasted Vegetable Soup", "Crab Cakes with Fruit and Ginger Chutney" and "Fillet of Beef with Thai Green Risotto". Palmer gives scientific explainations of why his food philosophy ("Moderation; Balance and Variety") works and suggests ways of integrating this into a healthy eating plan. The fat and fibre content of each recipe is coded with easy-to- interpret symbols. -- Carina Trimingham

160 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1992

About the author

Pen name of David Kessler.

Reviews

[Laura]

Though I was enchanted by the pictures and tasty sounding recipes in this book, I have ended up not making anything. The recipes turned out to be fairly complex and full of unfamiliar or hard-to-find ingredients.