My Bohemian Kitchen: A nostalgic guide to modern Czech cooking

(Hardback)

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My Bohemian Kitchen is a charming collection of Czech recipes with roots in nostalgia and a surprisingly modern take on seasonality and sustainability in the kitchen.

Welcome to the food of Evie Harbury, whose Bohemian kitchen bridges the Czech Republic of her heritage and her home in East London. The book brings to life her long summers spent at her granny's mill in South Bohemia with her personal stories about Czech food and culture. The day her elderly neighbour in Southern Bohemia burst through a broken panel of her fence wielding eleven home-grown cucumbers to give to Evie to pickle, she knew she had to write about this unique country and its relationship with food. Alongside the snapshots of this relatively under-represented food in the book are her deliciously simple recipes that capture the influences of the Czech Republic's neighbouring countries.

The quaint and quirky chapters include Beer Snacks, The Main Event, Vegetarinsky, Bohemian Baking and A Little Tipple. Recipes include Marinated Cheese (Nakldan Hermeln), Chanterelle and Dill Soup (Kulajda), Beef Goulash (Hovz gul), Strawberry Dumplings (Jahodov knedlky) and Honey Cake (Medovnk).

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Evie Harbury is a Bohemian-British food stylist, chef and recipe writer. Brought up between Bath, England and Tbor, Czech Republic, by an eccentric epicure of a father and an avant-garde, baking British mother, Evie is now an East London-based Bohemian. Evie divides her time between her London Fields home where she bases herself for filming and commercial work and her "chalupa" (cottage) in South Bohemia, where she grows vegetables, cooks for neighbours, eats goulash and writes. Her television and cookbook credits include work with household names such as Dame Mary Berry, Michel Roux Jr, Rosemary Shrager and Tom Kerridge.