Family Food: A New Approach to Cooking (Penguin Cookery Library)

This is a book for all the family to use. It will encourage children to have a go at cooking with their parents. It will provide tips and advice on how best to feed your children now, specifically with the abundance of readily available junk food around, and how to start enjoying family meal times around the dining tables instead of in front of the television. The author will cover the problems of the breakdown of the family unit at mealtimes, he will look at supermarkets v smaller specialist shops and he will underline the pleasures that can be had from sitting down to a family meal together.

Heston Blumenthal is the chef-proprietor of The Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, Berkshire. He has just been awarded his 2nd Michelin star, as well as The Good Food Guide Chef of the Year and The AA Guide Restaurant of the Year. He is also the food writer for the Guardian on Saturday. He is married with three young children and this is his first book.