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I write my books myself - my books are not ghost written. I also cook all the food for the photos in my books at home where it's much more relaxing than in a studio. I cook on my domestic oven and hobs so you know that cooking times will work. The first book I ever worked on was Keith Floyd's The Best of Floyd, for Michael Joseph in 1995. I'm credited as home economist - which basically means I cooked all the recipes we photographed and gave advice on things that seemed a little strange with the recipes. It was an interesting experience and it made me keen to write my own book one day. Which was exactly what happened next.

Cook at Home with Peter Gordon by Peter Gordon bookcover Sugar Club Cookbook by Peter Gordon bookcover The Cook's Book bookcover

Cook at Home with Peter Gordon

My second book, released in 1999, tackled the fact that I'd convinced people to buy all sorts of exotic ingredients like fish sauce, lime leaves, pomegranate molasses and palm sugar. While these may seem like standard pantry items in 2007 - they certainly weren't back then. Hodder and Stoughton published this for me and chapters included Breakfast, Picnics, and The Tea Trolley. It was serialised in The Times. As with The Sugar Club Cookbook, all illustrations were by Trevor Flynn, design was by Moira Bogue (both of whom have worked on this website) and photographs were by Jean Cazals - who has taken the photographs in all of my books.