My Archipelago
My Archipelago is Kit’s fourth book.
Great British Chefs
He was first published in 1989 by Pyramid (an imprint of the Octopus Publishing Group) with Great British Chefs, a study of the state of gastronomy in the UK with profiles and recipes of some of Britain’s greatest contemporary chefs, including Francis Coulson, John Tovey, Joyce Molyneux, Shaun Hill, Alastair Little, Simon Hopkinson and Gary Rhodes. The book was shortlisted for the 1990 André Simon Book Award and it was republished in paperback in 1994.
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Great British Chefs 2
The second volume of Great British Chefs was published in 1995 by Mitchell Beazley and reprinted in 1996 and 1997. This continued the story of Britain’s gastronomic development and featured a new collection of great chefs, including Rose Gray, Sally Clarke, Rowley Leigh, Rick Stein and Paul Rankin. In 1996, Great British Chefs 2 won the Guild of Food Writers’ Michael Smith Award.
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An Innkeeper’s Diary
Kit’s third book, An Innkeeper’s Diary, was published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson in 1999, followed by the paperback edition (Orion) in the same year. The book is an amusing and waspish account of a year in his life at The Castle.
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