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Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey

A British Breakfast Odyssey

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Red Sauce Brown Sauce: A British Breakfast Odyssey

By: Felicity Cloake
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The charming and joyful follow-up book from ‘the nation’s taster in chief,’ Felicity Cloake.

If there’s one thing that truly unites Britain, from Aberdeen to Aberystwyth, St Ives to St Pancras, it’s an obsession with breakfast.

We all have an opinion on the merits of brown sauce versus ketchup on our morning bacon sarnie. In this eagerly awaited follow-up to One More Croissant for the Road, the nation’s favourite taster-in-chief Felicity Cloake sets off on a cycle trip of condimental proportions to investigate and celebrate the legendary Great British Breakfast. Travelling the length and breadth of the UK to establish once and for all what makes a perfect fry-up, she rates them on criteria from the crispness of the bacon to how long they keep her pedalling. But a woman cannot live by All Day Breakfast alone, so as well as recipes for the Savoy's Omelette Arnold Bennett and proper Scottish porridge, she lavishes her attention on the regional specialities she encounters along the way, from a desi breakfast in Birmingham to a Greggs Geordie stottie cake. This is a freewheeling gastronomical tour like no other.

Eaten with as much relish in The Wolseley on Piccadilly as in Glasgow’s University Cafe, Britain loves nothing more than a good breakfast. The only question is: what do you have with yours?

Cooking Culinary Adventures Cycling Food & Wine Gastronomy Professionals & Academics Travel Writing & Commentary

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Critic reviews

‘As a greedy woman who loves cycling around the country in search of double and even triple breakfasts, I was delighted by this book about a greedy woman, cycling around the countryside, looking for several square meals a day. In an era when too many fully grown adults munch through instant microwave oats, overpackaged biscuits or simply skip eating altogether, Cloake is making the case for a cooked, regional, calorie-packed kick off, both as a treat for your senses and as a way of supporting smaller, traditional food producers…funny, enlightening and evocative.’ Nell Frizzell, The Guardian

‘A bible for breakfast lovers.’ The Scotsman

Praise for ‘One More Croissant for the Road’

‘Joyful, life-affirming, greedy. I loved it.’ Diana Henry

‘Wonderfully written.’ Anna Jones

‘Felicity Cloake’s Tour de France is a triumph. It is full of greed and wit, jam packed with priceless practical information, and peppered with a sense of adventure and wonder. I love it.’ Yotam Ottolenghi

‘From start to finish, this book is a joy: the perfect antidote to a world of diets and bad news.’ Bee Wilson

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Such a lovely light hearted book with great information on food culture history and fun facts. Interesting to know my husband and I are in the minority with our BBQ, Tabasco breakfast sauce combos

Britain, breakfast and bikes

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Race winning performance from, Cloake.

Leaves the peloton for dust with these food and cycling travelogs. Still think we need a Giro del Collezione.

Always Brown Sauce.

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This is a really good book - particularly as it comes with PDFs of the recipes. I should say that it has made me ridiculously hungry, and I find myself googling various suppliers of food groups at strange times of the day and night. In the spirit of the book: Red AND Brown.

Lovely book: enjoy with caution

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As a Felicity Cloake fan, I had high expectations for this book. She's met them. I now have a greater appreciation for the British breakfast and am even wondering whether I should swap hiking for cycling...

A lovely book, makes you full just listening to it

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loved it. four stars because the author read it too quickly for my liking so had to slow down to 0.90 on audible speed. Found this was about right. I do that with a lot of books. maybe I'm a bit slow.

red sauce brown sauce

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