The discovery of fire meant a radical change in the world: food became more than just nutrition; cooking grew into an inseparable part of our culture.
Lennox Hastie shows that cooking with fire is more than just barbecuing. Fire gives everything from vegetables to fish and seafood a heavenly flavor.

In this beautiful cookbook, Lennox Hastie, from Sydney's acclaimed restaurant Firedoor, tells how he learned the language of fire on his journey from Britain to the Basque mountains and Australia. In In Search of Fire he provides more than 80 special recipes with the very best ingredients for intuitive, careful preparation over an open fire. With all the culinary delights of today, there seems to be no room left for the romance of cooking over an open fire. Lennox proves that this ancient preparation method also fits today.

LENNOX HASTIE is chef and owner of Firedoor in Sydney. Used in the Firedoor kitchen
he has no gas or electricity; the food is prepared on two wood-fired ovens, three barbecues and a wood-fired stove. He previously worked at Michelin star restaurants in England, France and Spain.