Cookbooks

‘Worth the Journey!’ trumpeted the Guide Michelin . Crammed into a dilapidated vintage car, seven year-old child, Pascale Beale-Groom, raced across Europe, driven from one three-star restaurant to another by her eccentric father. These world famous temples of La Haute Cuisine; Pere Bise, Paul Bocuse, La Pyramide, all had a profound effect on her culinary aspirations and it was only natural that she eventually follow their illustrious chefs footsteps into the realm of cooking.

These gastronomic pilgrimages always left a drizzly London behind and headed south into France and summer. Her new book takes us there too in both title and spirit. A mouth-watering succession of recipes are like so many stops on a favorite road trip, each to be savored along the way, friends and family in tow. . With delicious photographs illustrating the tempting menus, you can easily envision yourself pulling up a chair at a sunny table and tasting the essence of summer in the meal before you.

Pascale's late, good friend and mentor, Julia Child, once said, ' You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.' In the pages that follow you will see that this has become Pascale's motto.