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Quadrille is launching a new cookery list with two young chefs both in their twenties.
Entitled New Voices in Food, Quadrille’s new list aims to showcase “interesting young chefs” and will kick off with two new titles due out in July.
Anne Furniss, editorial director at Quadrille, said the list was, “about discovering and nurturing the new visions in food writing”. She added: “Most of our trusted bestselling authors are very well established . . . they are dominating the market and it’s becoming extremely difficult for young voices to break into the market.”
One of the first two titles is My Kitchen: Real Food from Near and Far by Stevie Parle, a 24-year-old chef who has worked at both the River Café and Moro. The title is divided into 12 chapters for the months of the year with recipes based around seasonal foods, occasions from Parle’s life and global inspiration. At the start of each chapter he also gives a masterclass about a single foodstuff.
The second title to launch the list is Alice’s Cookbook by Alice Hart, chef and youngest ever food editor at Waitrose Food Illustrated. With this title, each chapter is based around an occasion, for example, Sunday lunches, barbecues and camper van picnics. The book has a scrapbook feel to it with skewed pictures and passport stamps.
Both titles will be published as £14.99 paperbacks with flaps.
Furniss said each chef used their own experiences as well as inspiration taken from their travels to create a “really interesting cross”.
She added: “There is another market, a younger market, who is interested in a different kind of food which isn’t appearing in books... The series will have a young, edgy but stylish look, and will be essential reading for all budding foodies.”
Quadrille plans a similar output for the list next year. Furniss said Quadrille “really wants to get some new energy in at the bottom to build on . . . we don’t want to fill up the list for the sake of it.”