TRAVEL THE WORLD VIA THE KITCHEN

YOUR summer holiday might be off (sorry), but you can now travel the globe in 75 fafffree, one-tin recipes, courtesy of food writer and stylist, Rukmini Iyer.

The former MasterChef contestant pioneered the “chop and chuck traybake” with her wildly successful Roasting Tin series of cookbooks, single-handedly making it possible for us all to get in late (and hungry), switch the oven on — and swiftly have something not only acceptable and edible to feed people, but something surprising, delicious and practically effortless too.

Book four, The Roasting Tin Around The World, has come at an admittedly difficult moment. But arguably its timing couldn’t be more pertinent, either. When our horizons have been wholly curbed, and our lives tethered to one spot, being able to “travel via your kitchen” is quite a gift.

Iyer, who grew up in Cambridgeshire and is now based in London with her border collie, Pepper, has managed to condense into a cookbook the feeling so many of us get on holiday, of eating something amazing, and knowing we will desperately try to recreate it when back home — only she’s made that possible.

“When my mum came back from a trip to Peru, she was like, ‘I’ve got to get these purple potatoes’,” says Iyer affectionately, adding how she also saw this book as a chance to “get a bit more creative, and authentic with flavours.

“With the first two books, a lot of the recipes was just me going, ‘Just add a bit of lime juice’,” she says, rather selfdeprecatingly. “Now it’s more like, no, this