Tin Can Cook

75 Simple Store-cupboard Recipes

Jack Monroe author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:30th May '19

£6.99

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Tin Can Cook cover

Award-winning anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe is back with Tin Can Cook: a delicious collection of seventy-five recipes, all made from store-cupboard ingredients available from corner shops and local supermarkets.

Simple and affordable cooking, Tin Can Cook takes it back to the basics: making great-tasting food with ordinary and budget-friendly ingredients.

Winner of the OFM Best Food Personality Readers' Award and a Sunday Times bestseller.


Food writer and anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe brings together seventy-five recipes that you can rustle up from tinned and dried ingredients.

Beautifully designed with accompanying quirky hand-drawn illustrations, this book is for you if you’ve struggled to make a dish because the recipe calls for an exotic ingredient you’ve never heard of. Jack does away with the effort; all her dishes are exciting and new, but you won’t have to look further than your local supermarket to make them.

Jack's recipes include Red Lentil and Mandarin Curry, Catalan Fish Stew, Pina Colada Toast and many more delicious and creative ideas.

'An exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed' – Ruby Tandoh, The Great British Bake Off runner-up and author of Eat Up

'At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious' – Felicity Spector, food writer and journalist

Using predominantly ingredients from cans, the book's recipes are an exuberant rebuttal to the idea that good food must be expensive, farm-fresh and unprocessed. -- Ruby Tandoh * Vice *
Tin Can Cook is a brilliant book full of recipes which are accessible to all sorts of budgets and easy to make. At a time when good food can often be seen as rather elitist or exclusive, Jack has done an excellent job to create recipes which are simple, straightforward and delicious. -- Felicity Spector, food writer and journalist
Jack Monroe is both cookery writer and tenacious campaigner . . . she understands first hand what it's like to be skint and have the desire to put something delicious on the table. -- Nigel Slater
I honestly think this is an era-defining cookbook, and a brilliant, thoughtful, incredibly useful piece of work. -- Marina O'Loughlin, restaurant critic
Jack Monroe is the Queen of Cans, and her Tin Can Cook is a wonderful resource for cheap, nutritious and delightful tin-based cookery. -- Olivia Potts, Spectator
If she wasn’t already a legend . . . she has 100% reached national treasure status now. -- Stylist

ISBN: 9781529015287

Dimensions: 197mm x 153mm x 15mm

Weight: 189g

160 pages