Kitchen Table: Simple Things Made Well
By (Author) Emily Cuddeford
By (author) Rachel Morgan
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
2nd July 2025
13th March 2025
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Baking
Cookery / food by ingredient: egg, cheese and dairy products
Cookery / food by ingredient: chocolate
Cookery dishes and courses: main courses
Cookery dishes and courses: desserts
Organic food / organic cookery
641.5
Hardback
288
Width 195mm, Height 252mm, Spine 28mm
1740g
Simple things made well.
We want this book to be a well-thumbed friend that feels safe and comforting and from which you know you can always make something delicious that feels like home. Our love of food and cooking began at our kitchen tables and we want to share this passion with you, to bring to yours.
This beautiful book weaves together recipes and stories inspired by Emily and Rachels cookery journey, relationships with producers and communities, and their love of food since they were small. The recipes lovingly compiled in this book are all truly accessible for the home cook, inspiring the reader to learn new skills if they wish, or simply return to comforting classics, always ensuring quality ingredients and delicious results that youll want to share!
With over 90 sweet and savoury recipes, the book is built around the kitchen table for creating, feasting, coming together, having quiet moments and joyous celebrations. Structured around key ingredients and techniques, the chapters cover: Butter, Milk and Cream, Bread, Fruit, Olive Oil, Chocolate, Nuts, Spices, Herbs & Coffee, Eggs, Salt & Vinegar.
With recipes including: Brown Butter Apple Buns, Dauphinoise pie, Focaccia, Whey Brined Roast Chicken, Honey Tart with Apricot Jam, Kimchi, Tiramisu, Cocoa Roasted Squash, Pickles, Burnt Honey Custard, Salsa Verde, Fresh Peas, Broad Beans, Almonds & ricotta, Coffee & Cardamom loaf cake and many more.
Simple things made well will always come back to the best possible ingredients you can get your hands on, then with a little time and care, creating food that isnt showy, but tastes incredible.
Praise for Twelve Triangles:
One of the 20 best bakeries in the UK, Financial Times 2023
One of the ten best places for breakfast in the UK, Felicity Cloake, National Geographic 2021
La Listes Pastry Awards 2024
Artist-bakers: meet the art grads who swapped paintbrushes for pastry Telegraph, February 2016
Twelve Triangles has really upped the ante in Scotland. Glasgow Times, April 2016
The olive oil cake with chocolate ganache from Twelve Triangles makes me emotional every time I eat it because its so beautiful. This book is worth buying for that recipe alone! Jessica Elliot Dennison, owner of Elliotts Cafe in Edinburgh and author of Lazy Baking and Salad Feasts
It was a privilege to work closely with Rachel and Emily in the Twelve Triangles bakery and see The love and care that goes into their food is just incredible and to be able to have access to all of these recipes is very special. Roberta Hall-McCarron, chef and owner of The Little Chartroom and Eleanore, and BBC Great British Menu Winner
The bakery has something of a cult following thanks to their unique sourdough breads and pastries, which are cold-proved and slow fermented on a cycle of three to four days. The bakers champion the use of local suppliers. The Times
Rachel Morgan and Emily Cuddeford fell in love with cooking and baking early in life and both ended up leaving their burgeoning arts careers to work with food. Rachel started her career in food as a side step from work in costume design whilst working in theatre, she always had side jobs in cafes and cooking to supplement her income. She soon realised that she was enjoying the food work more than the theatre work and took the decision to formally train at Edinburgh New Town Cookery School.
With no formal cooking experience, Emily got through to the TV rounds of Masterchef when she was 18, but quickly learned that service kitchens were not for her. However, she loved baking and working on food behind the scenes. Whilst at University in Brighton, Emilys dream bakery opened in Edinburgh, and this is where she met Rachel. When they advertised for a role, she immediately applied and moved back to Edinburgh; together, they created Twelve Triangles.