Food You Want to Eat
The instant Sunday Times bestseller
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:8th May '25
Should be back in stock very soon

This is food you want to eat, shared by chef and creator Thomas Straker to his 5M following, and now in his first cookbook.
Chef Thomas Straker shares the Food You Want to Eat in over 100 classic recipes for cooking at home. Uncomplicated, seasonal and delicious, each recipe has the perfect balance of flavours.
With cook-on-repeat recipes including:
- ‘Nduja and mozzarella flatbread
- Burnt chilli butter
- Sweetcorn, tuna and fennel salad
- Spiced tomato tagliolini
- Roast chicken and butter beans
- Sea bass with lentils and salsa verde
- Classic tarte tatin
- Chocolate mousse
Thomas cooks with the same stylish simplicity whether at home, online or in the kitchen of his acclaimed London restaurant, STRAKER’S. By breaking down the barriers between chef and home-cook, he shows how quality ingredients and simple techniques lead to amazing results in any kitchen.
‘I want to eat everything in this book’ – Angela Hartnett
‘An absolute natural with a pitch perfect palate. He has the gift of intuitively and effortlessly knowing how to throw ingredients together and make magic on a plate’ – Phil Howard
‘He knows his way around the kitchen like no one else – every page is a knockout. His recipes are the real deal’ – Laurent Dagenais
I want to eat everything in this book… -- Angela Hartnett
An absolute natural with a pitch perfect palate. He has the gift of intuitively and effortlessly knowing how to throw ingredients together and make magic on a plate. -- Phil Howard
He knows his way around the kitchen like no one else – every page is a knockout. His recipes are the real deal. -- Laurent Dagenais
Thomas Straker has been the absolute bomb of all food social media this past year or so * Giles Coren, The Times *
Not just a viral hot property but an experienced and talented chef … The recipes are very much geared towards the home cook. They’re not exactly basic, but nor are they irrelevantly cheffy in any way -- Nigella Lawson
ISBN: 9781526673480
Dimensions: 248mm x 194mm x 24mm
Weight: 1085g
288 pages