Love Music Love Food – Rock’n Roll Cookbook

The concept of this book was born out of love of music and food to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust.  The artists featured in the book have all supported the teen charity, some over the years, some are new comers.  The cover jacket is a very strong image of Juliet Lewis sitting on a purple setting, with her long wind-swept hair, wearing a black and silver sequined figure hugging outfit, squashing a hand full of berries with her one of her bare hands and a upright guitar placed in between her legs. Take that away and it’s a plain, mat black hardcover. The book contains 235 pages full of recipes, foreworded by Heston Blumental. The rock stars quotes and  suggestions of  their favorite restaurant hangouts, loves and hates from childhood. The photography in this cookbook differ from the others cookbooks, because the images are not of the finished dishes or ingredients by themselves, they are pictures of the musicians with their favorite food or ingredient in a very rock’n roll way. All images in the book is by the London food photographer Patricie de Villiers. 

The recipes were devised by Sarah Muir, who has been cooking for rocks stars on the road for many years.  I tried one recipe of this book, the Gringo Bandito Sauce Buffalo chicken. The sauce is hot with a subtle sweetness that works well with the crispy chicken skin. I read the other recipes and they seen to be easy to follow and they use ingredients that are easy to find in supermarkets. This is a stunning tabletop book for a worthy cause. At £30, it makes lovely present for a foodie and/or music lover.

Tried and tested recipe

 Gringo Bandito Sauce Buffalo chicken