Back to basics with three recipes from Anna Haugh that anyone can cook at home

Anna Haugh’s first book could have been a vehicle to showcase her restaurant Myrtle. Instead, she went back to basics, focusing on recipes we can all cook at home. Interview by Ali Dunworth

Cooking with Anna is Anna Haugh's first book and it’s a masterpiece in bringing together decades’ worth of experience from fine dining kitchens and translating them for the home cook. Photography by Laura Edwards

Anna Haugh dedicates her new book Cooking with Anna to Liz Dunne, ‘the woman who saw the chef in me before I even knew I was one’.

Anna always loved being in the kitchen, she tells me, from “as soon as I could stand”, but it wasn’t until Liz, her best friend’s mother suggested cheffing that she thought about it as a career. “Liz turned to me one day and said ‘you should be a chef, when you’re in the kitchen you change, you become more alive’.”