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Rhubarb Fool with Cardamom Cream and Pistachios
Chocolate-Orange Cake with Bourbon
Dressings, Sauces, and Condiments
Huge thanks go to the amazing team at Ecco, especially to publisher Daniel Halpern, editor Libby Edelson, interior designer Suet Chong, and art director Allison Saltzman for helping me create a book that I adore.
To my superstar agent, the very handsome Luke Janklow.
To my friend and co-writer, JJ Goode, for his patience and for always pestering me to measure, measure, measure and test, test, test.
To my friend, the immensely talented photographer David Loftus, and to food and prop stylist Georgie Socratous, for lending me a little of their magic.
To the talented Sun Young Park for her incredible illustrations.
To Martin Schoeller for contributing the lovely cover photo.
To Amy Vogler and Jill Santopietro for their careful, thoughtful recipe testing.
To my mentors, past and present, culinary and otherwise: Adam Robinson, Nick Smallwood, Chris Lee, Paul Rankin, Theo Randall, Rowley Leigh, Simon Hopkinson, Rose Gray, Ruthie Rogers, Fergus Henderson, Jamie Oliver, and Mario Batali.
To my wonderful staff, past and present, who kept everything running while I toiled at this book. Special thanks to Peter Cho, Ralphy Johnson, Joshy Schwartz, Katharine Marsh, Dwayne Joseph, Christina Lecki, Preston Miller, Edie Ugot, Charlene Santiago, Scotty Boggs, and Ryan Gannon.
To my friend and partner, Ken Friedman, for taking a chance on a girl from Birmingham, and to Jay-Z, Norman Cook, Paul McGuinness, Pete Tong and Michael Stipe for their support.
To my diligent assistant, Emily Stroud, and to my beloved former assistant, Jenn James (and her Bug).
To my great friends Pete Begg, Dolly Sweet, Mike Dowding, and Rachael Smith for their advice, their support, and lots of laughs.
To my wonderful family, my nan and granddad, my mom and dad and sisters. I love you all so much.
To Amy Hou. You’re my rock.
Finally, to the Man Upstairs for giving me passion and a second chance.
April Bloomfield hunches dejectedly over a bowl of meatballs, leaning a cheek on one hand. With the other, she pushes the meatballs around the bowl, eyeing them with great disappointment.
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