Michelin-starred chef Tom Kerridge has been developing top recipes for nearly three decades and knows how to make things taste good. He also understands how much willpower it takes to shift unhealthy excess weight, because he has lost over 11 stone in the last four years by following a low-carb diet. Now Tom is turning his attention to helping food-lovers who have chosen a lower-calorie diet as their own route to weight-loss. This is a lower-calorie diet with a difference - it's based on hunger-satisfying portions of delicious, lower-calorie dishes that taste amazing. The focus is on the food that we can and should be eating to lose weight, which is easy to make and won't make you feel as though you are missing out.
Recipes include warm halloumi salad; salt and pepper squid; sweet potato and black bean burritos; sticky pork chops; and baked doughnuts with sweet five-spice dust.
As Tom says: `It's impossible to stick to a diet if the food you're expected to eat is boring and doesn't fill you up. So I've developed lots of tasty and satisfying recipes that people will love to cook and eat, but that will also help them lose weight. I truly believe that this attitude works. I've been there myself and now I want to help others get there too.' By adopting a new, healthy approach to eating you really CAN lose weight for good.
Tom Kerridge has a big reputation in professional kitchens and on foodie TV. He has worked with well-known chefs such as Philip Britten, Stephen Bull and Gary Rhodes in Michelin starred restaurants, and featured on TV shows The Great British Menu, Saturday Kitchen, Food and Drink and The Great British Food Revival. There are only twenty-one chefs in Britain with more than one Michelin star, but there is just this one chef who has earned two stars by cooking in a pub. The Hand and Flowers is a unique pub with a unique chef, whose first cookbook is sure to be the first of many favourites.
