<p><b>¿I adore Meades¿s book . . . I want more of his rule-breaking irreverence in my kitchen¿ <i>New York Times</i><br><br>¿<i>The Plagiarist in the Kitchen</i> is hilariously grumpy, muttering at us ¿Don¿t you bastards know anything?¿ You can read it purely for literary pleasure, but Jonathan Meades makes everything sound so delicious that the non-cook will be moved to cook and the bad cook will cook better¿ David Hare, <i>Guardian</i></b></p><p><i>The Plagiarist in the Kitchen</i> is an anti-cookbook. Best known as a provocative novelist, journalist and film-maker, Jonathan Meades has also been called ¿the best amateur chef in the world¿ by Marco Pierre White. His contention here is that anyone who claims to have invented a dish is delusional, dishonestly contributing to the myth of culinary originality.</p>Meades delivers a polemical but highly usable collection of 125 of his favourite recipes, each one an example of the fine art of culinary plagiarism. These are dishes a