‘I adore Meades’s book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen.’ New York Times

‘The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us “Don’t you bastards know anything?” You can read it purely for literary pleasure, but Jonathan Meades makes everything sound so delicious that the non-cook will be moved to cook and the bad cook will cook better.’ David Hare, Guardian

"Meades was for 15 years from 1986 the restaurant critic of the Times, a calling he approached with polymathic wit, much copied, rarely bettered . . . The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is a personal food odyssey, a book of recipes, each with a story of how he came by it, and why exactly he is passing it off as his own." Observer

《那些年我偷来的食谱》是一本非食谱书的食谱书。作者Jonathan Meades是一名小说家、记者、电影制作人以及《泰晤士报》的前美食评论家。他曾被Marco Pierre White称为世界上最顶尖的非专业厨师。

作者Jonathan Meades认为任何自称发明过一道菜的厨师都是在夸大，没有一道菜不是借别的菜或偷别的菜而来的。在这本书中，作者收入了125个非常实用、简单的他自己个人的食谱，每一个食谱都是从别人偷来后自己调整的。但这也不是一个食谱书，书中同时收入了他的故事以及观察，比如为什么英国人到现在还是不懂得如何利用大蒜。或者就算大导演Martin Scorsese的妈妈建议不要这么做，他还是坚持要炸他的肉丸。

书中的黑白插图来自于作者自己的收藏—其实都跟食谱完全没有任何关系。普通的食谱你不会从头看到尾，但这本书你会。

关于作者：

Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist, and film-maker. He is the author of Incest and Morris Dancing. He was the Times' restaurant critic for 15 years, and won the Best Food Journalist in the Glenfiddich Awards.

好评：

'Described  as  an' anti-cookbook'.  Readers  will  not therefore feel obliged to  rise  from  the  armchair  to  cook  any  of  the  recipes...  Instead,  sit  back  and  enjoy  Meades'  keenly  observed,  truculent,  shrewdly  funny  writing. ' Delicious Magazine  - Ten Best Cookbooks 

'If you already  know  and  love  Jonathan  Meades,  he  needs  no  introduction.  If  you  don't,  imagine  Nabokov  crossed  with  The  Very  Hungry  Caterpillar..." Country Life

"Here [Jonathan Meades] has chosen 125 of his favourite recipes for an anti-cookbook, interwoven with brilliant anecdotes . . . all of which accumulates into a bracing polemic about the very idea of eating well. Buy it for the prose." (Daily Mail Event Magazine)

'Meades  reasonably  observes  that  “no  one  reads  a  cookbook  cover  to  cover”,  but  for  obvious  reasons  I  did  this  one,  and  I  don’t  regret  it.  It  is  quite  the  funniest  I’ve  read  (which  is  not  saying  much),  and  surprisingly  appetising.  Its  recipes  may  not  be  original,  but  its  author  certainly  is.' The Telegraph

'The  Plagiarist  might  not  look  like  a  working  cookbook,  but  between  bursts  of  explosive  provocation,  and  vaguely  disturbing  abstract  monochrome  images,  there  is  plenty  to  eat. ' Evening Standard 

'It  is  perfectly  possible  to  have  a  successful  writing  and  broadcasting  career  without  ever  having  an  original  thought;  writer  and  film-maker  Jonathan  Meades  is  feared  and  revered  because  he  never  seems  to  have  one  that  isn’t.' Guardian

"Meades returns now as defiant, playful, and possibly punch drunk as ever . . . The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is a cookbook in the mode of, say, The Futurist Cookbook, The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, or a good old-fashioned M. F. K. Fisher." Times Literary Supplement

"Meades is one of our most eloquent and excellent iconoclasts . . . Although the prose is as opinionated and elegant as you'd expect, this is a brilliant, magnificently old-fashioned cookbook." Mail on Sunday

"The Plagiarist in the Kitchen is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us “Don’t you bastards know anything?” You can read it purely for literary pleasure, but Jonathan Meades makes everything sound so delicious that the non-cook will be moved to cook and the bad cook will cook better."" Best Summer Reads Guardian

"Witty, forthright and full of excellent recipes. A welcome companion for self-catering holidays." Summer Reads Spectator

"Meades reasonably observes that 'no one reads a cookbook cover to cover', but for obvious reasons I did this one, and I don't regret it. It is quite the funniest I've read." Sunday Telegraph

"The Plagiarist in the Kitchen, an intriguing read as any Meades follower will suppose – peppered with digressions, spleen, literary references, jests and arcane knowledge – is also a repository of sound European recipes." Evening Standard

"Meades is a hugely entertaining writer." Restaurant Magazine

"Meades has been compared, favourably, to Rabelais and, flatteringly, to Swift. The truth is that he outstrips both in the gaudiness of his imagination." Henry Hitchings Times Literary Supplement

"The scope of his ideas, the force of his arguments, the sheer vitality of his sentences: these things come at you like negative ions after a storm, with the result that you soon start to feel an awful lot better – envious but revitalised, too" New Statesman

"Hilarious, insightful, and full of the food I love . . . a future classic in my book." BBC Food Programme