Wahaca founder cookbook to Guardian Faber

Guardian Faber has signed Home Cook by Wahaca co-founder and Guardian weekend columnist Thomasina Miers.

Laura Hassan, editorial director at Faber, bought world all language rights from Antony Topping at Greene & Heaton.

The book is Miers’ "inspiring" guide for the home cook. According to the publisher, "it is about enjoying good food any day of the week. Miers has collected her most-loved recipes; recipes that she has fed her friends and family at her always busy kitchen table, recipes made up of family classics or food inspired by her travels and her favourite food-writers and chefs. And she has made these gorgeous recipes achievable, time-friendly and faff-free."

The book will consist of "irresistible" recipes ranging from marmalade and poppy-seed muffins to seafood paella, Mexican crab mayo to picadillo, and the crispiest ever chicken thighs to her upside down rhubarb cake.

Every recipe includes a recipe idea at the bottom of the page that makes further use of an ingredient "so that your week and your food shop gets that little bit easier". Home Cook will include over 300 recipes and "beautiful" photography throughout.

Miers said: “Home cooking means having fun with great ingredients without having to spend a fortune. It means spending some time, but not all the time, cooking nourishing flavoursome food whilst being clever with storing and re-using key ingredients and sauces. I’ve designed Home Cook so that it is genuinely helpful for anyone with a busy working and home life. These are my kitchen essentials and they are delicious and do-able.”

Hassan said: “Miers is a modern, funkier Mrs Beeton and we can't wait to share her domestic know-how. Add to that her vivid personal prose, passion for ingredients, and inviting recipes and it promises to be an exceptional and exceptionally useful cookbook.”

Miers was winner of BBC's "MasterChef" in 2005. She is a cook, food writer and co-founder of the restaurant group Wahaca. Her previous books include Soup Kitchen (HarperCollins), Cook (Collins), Wild Gourmets (Bloomsbury), Mexican Food Made Simple (Hodder), Wahaca (Hodder) and Chilli Notes (Hodder). She has presented various cookery TV programmes and writes a regular column, ‘Weekend Cook’, in the Guardian magazine.

Home Cook will be published in February 2017.