The working cook - Carina Cooper

Think you have to resort to packaged foods to get a meal on the table quickly? Think again. The Working Cook understands the demands of today's busy lifestyle and shows how, with a minimum of time and effort, you can still eat well.

The Working Cook is a fantastic collection of speedy recipes based on Carina Cooper's daily food column in the Evening Standard. Stressing easy but tasty food for busy people, it offers delicious meals for the way we live now.

Time-poor cooks are guaranteed to find a recipe to suit in here, whether they want to entertain friends with a minimum of fuss, or are shattered and need to get a meal on the table as quickly as possible at the end of the day. All recipes include cooking and prep times.

Chapters include:
- Ultra-fast
- Feeling Virtuous
- Veggie
- Indulge
- Friends Coming Round
- It's the Weekend

The Working Cook finally offers an answer to that frustrating daily question, "What shall we eat tonight?"

Carina Cooper is food columnist for the Evening Standard, where she has gained scores of followers with her quick and simple recipes for busy cooks. She lives in London with her four daughters.