A Pike in the Basement: Tales of a Hungry Traveller

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You couldn't travel in more delightful company. Simon Loftus is a man with a sense of adventure and a nose for the good things in life. Here he combines a love of food and travel with beguiling style and takes us on a voyage of discovery round some of the world's lesser-known culinary delights. In his hands, freshly baked unleavened bread in a Teheran bakery at midnight, slightly salty, becomes as mouth-watering as white truffles shaved thinly over pasta in Piedmont. The exertions of travel transform a simple omelette in France into a harvest feast, and give tea and fried eggs in Pakistan a hitherto unobserved exoticism. He understands the importance of the right food in the right place at the right time, and the evocative power of tastes and smells to the traveller.

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"a heartfelt, witty prescription for a life worth aspiring to and genuinely well-written. The next pike I catch is going straight in the basement" Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall"

Author Bio

Simon Loftus (1946-), chairman of Adnams, the Suffolk brewers, is a wine merchant, an amateur cook and an incompetent pianist. He has variously worked as a magician's stooge, a stiltwalker, a scriptwriter and a farm labourer. He has written extensively on wine and the wine trade. He lives in Suffolk with his wife and daughter.