Fourth Estate scoops first cookbook from celebrity chef Jeremy Lee

Fourth Estate has scooped the first cookbook from celebrity chef Jeremy Lee. 

Louise Haines, publishing director, acquired world rights for Cooking: Simply and Well, For One or Many from Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates. It will publish on 1st September.  

The publisher said: “Cooking is brimming with stories, wit, infectious joy for food and indispensable advice. It is brilliantly illustrated by John Broadley and photographed by Elena Heatherwick, and will surely be one of the most distinctive cookbooks published for years from renowned chef Jeremy Lee.” 

Lee joined the Hart brothers at Quo Vadis restaurant in Soho in early 2012, becoming chef proprietor. He had previously manned the stoves of Blueprint Café on the first floor of the Design Museum, which Sir Terence Conran created on the south bank of Thames near Tower Bridge.  

Haines said: “I am proud to be publishing Jeremy’s long-awaited first book, Cooking: Simply and Well, For One or Many. It is – as was only to be expected – a complete delight. Written in Jeremy’s unique voice, full of gusto and phenomenal knowledge, it contains more than 150 recipes and ideas for the home cook. From beans to peas to walnuts, it also emphatically informs readers how to find good, honest ingredients to cook simply and well.”