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Menus, stories, places - Diana cooks up feasts for family and friends based on meals she has cooked and loved over the years.

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Food Book of the Year at the 2019 André Simon Food and Drink Book Awards

The Sunday Times Food Book of the Year

´A masterpiece´ - Bee Wilson, The Sunday Times

As featured on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme ´Books of the Year 2018´

´This is an extraordinary piece of food writing, pitch perfect in every way. I couldn´t love anyone who didn´t love this book.´ - Nigella Lawson

Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards - Eurospar Cookbook of the year

´Diana Henry´s How to Eat a Peach is as elegant and sparkling as a bellini´
- The Guardian ´Books of the Year´

´I adore Diana Henry´s recipes - and this is a fantastic collection. They are simple, but also have a sense of occasion. The recipes come from all over the world and each menu has an evocative story to accompany it. Beautiful.´ - The Times ´Best Books of the Year´

´...her best yet...superb menus evoking place and occasion with consummate elegance´ - Financial Times

´The recipes are superb but, above all, Diana writes like a dream´ - Daily Mail

´Any book from Diana Henry is a joy and this canny collection of menus and stories is no exception´ - delicious (As featured in delicious. magazine Top 10 Food Books of 2018)

´You can always rely on Diana Henry. Her prose is elegant and evocative, her recipes pure and delectably international. This is perhaps her best yet´ - Tom Parker Bowles, The Mail on Sunday ´Essential Cookbooks Published This Year´

´No one quite captures a place, a moment, a taste and a memory like she does. If you´ve been there before, you´re transported back but if you haven´t not to worry, she takes you there with her´ - The Independent ´Best Books of the Year´

´The stories associated with the meals are what draw you in´ - The Herald ´The Year´s Best Food Books´

´A life-enhancing book´ - The London Evening Standard ´Best Cookbooks To Buy This Christmas´

´...enchanting, evocative menus.´ - iPaper

´One of my favourite food writers with a book of 25 themed menus that I can´t wait to cook. This is top of my wish list!´ - Good Housekeeping ´Favourite Reads to Gift´

When Diana Henry was sixteen she started a menu notebook (an exercise book carefully covered in wrapping paper) in which she wrote up the meals she wanted to cook. She kept this book for years. Putting a menu together is still her favourite part of cooking. Menus aren´t just groups of dishes that have to work on a practical level (meals that cooks can manage), they also have to work as a succession of flavours. But what is perhaps most special about them is the way they can create very different moods - menus can take you places, from an afternoon at the seaside in Brittany to a sultry evening eating mezze in Istanbul. They are a way of visiting places you´ve never seen, revisiting places you love and celebrating particular seasons.

How to Eat a Peach contains many of Diana´s favourite dishes in menus that will take you through the year and to different parts of the world.

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Her writing is incredibly vivid: her anecdotes invite you to sit down at the table with her and taste the flavours she describes. The Culture Whisperer ´Best Books To Gift´

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