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Emily Green is a Times staff writer. It took 11 years for Simon Hopkinson’s peculiar blue book “Roast Chicken and Other Stories” to make a bestseller list. When it finally did, it came out of a dusty ...

For years I faithfully made Marcella Hazan’s roast chicken, which basically involved roasting the bird with a lemon in its cavity. But once I tried Simon Hopkinson’s recipe from his quite wonderful ...

The other day, a friend who had moved to Santa Fe was in town so I asked him over to dinner. It was a weeknight and I didn’t have a whole lot of time to fuss in the kitchen, and also, because it just ...

This idiosyncratic though charming cookbook was first published in the U.K. in 1994 and became a runaway favorite with a second publication in 2006. Hopkinson, a founding chef of London’s Bibendum and ...

Simon Hopkinson is a softly spoken and almost self-effacing chef who never needs to shout to gain attention. It’s more than 25 years since he ran a restaurant, yet to this day he has a voice that’s ...

The Book Bench is reviewing new and forthcoming cookbooks this week. In this post: “The Vegetarian Option,” by Simon Hopkinson, and “Seasonal Fruit Desserts,” by Deborah Madison. Hosting a dinner ...

Simon creates a meal inspired by European holidays and wonderful memories of adventurous tastes and flavours from across the Channel. He begins with a negroni, the classic Italian cocktail, and some ...

This summer, NPR is getting crafty in the kitchen. As part of Weekend Edition's Do Try This At Home series, chefs are sharing their cleverest hacks and tips — taking expensive, exhausting or ...