Kitchen Essentials: The Joy of Home Cooking

Passionate, engaged and accessible, Kitchen Essentials is a cookbook full of great food and techniques to help demystify the art of home cookery. With his thirty years’ experience as a chef and a teacher, Gary Maclean brings insight, wisdom and humour to the kitchen. Kitchen Essentials will make the fundamentals of home cooking truly straightforward – and joyful – for everyone. Gary Maclean has the expertise of a top chef as well as phenomenal teaching and communication skills. This winning combination informs the unique mix of know-how, top tips and recipes in Kitchen Essentials. Gary Maclean is the perfect teacher for anyone looking to enhance their joy of home cooking.

Gary Maclean is a multi-award winning chef who has been hailed as a major talent, a gentleman of the kitchen, a world class educator, and someone who could step into a three Michelin-star kitchen and feel at home. Gary was crowned champion of BBC series Masterchef: The Professionals in 2016, and was announced as Scotland’s National Chef for 2018. Gary has also held executive chef positions at two of Scotland’s biggest independent operators and his current role as Senior Lecturer at City of Glasgow College is what really drives his passion for mentoring other young chefs and creative cooking.