Orlando Murrin

Orlando Murrin

Food writer

https://www.orlandomurrin.com/
After being flung into the culinary limelight as a semi-finalist on Masterchef, Orlando Murrin edited BBC Good Food for six years and founded Olive magazine; then switched track to become a chef-hotelier in SW France and Somerset. He has written seven cookbooks and is President of the Guild of Food Writers. An ever-popular guest on TV and radio, he presents the BBC Good Food Podcast with Tom Kerridge. From his grandfather, a Met detective who rose to become a crack MI5 interrogator, he inherited a fascination with crime and mystery. He lives in domestic bliss in Exeter, Devon.

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In Conversation: Food in Fiction—Orlando Murrin & Catherine Kurtz

In Conversation: Food in Fiction—Orlando Murrin & Catherine Kurtz

Orlando Murrin and Catherine Kurtz are both food writers who have branched out to also write fiction. Orlando’s hugely popular crime series, starring a chef detective, includes Knife Skills for Beginners, and most recently Murder Below Deck (published as May Contain Murder in the US and Canada). Catherine’s debut novel Feast (published on June 4) is the story of a girl with an extraordinary sense of taste. We caught up with the two of them to talk food, fiction, and more…
Magrets & Mushrooms - a ckbk original

Magrets & Mushrooms - a ckbk original

Jeanne Strang’s Goose Fat & Garlic is arguably the classic work on the regional cooking of South-West France, and has been reprinted many times since its publication in 1991.Today ckbk is proud to publish Magrets & Mushrooms, the long-awaited sequel to this work. The new book is the first publication in a new series of “ckbk originals”, published under ckbk’s own imprint and available in print, as a Kindle ebook, and via the ckbk app.