Review: New Edition Moro Cookery Book Collection (Giveaway now closed)

If you are a fan of Spanish food with a splash of North African and Eastern Mediterranean influence, then you’ll love the Moro collection of cookery books. In fact, these stunning books are a treat for any foodie, willing to take a culinary adventure and perhaps embark on an experiment or two in the kitchen. There is no doubt, that these books will blow your culinary boundaries, each one offering a unique treat for the taste buds, adding a really special dimension to your cookery book collection.

If you grow your own food or are an allotment keeper, you’ll particularly enjoy the third book, Moro East, with recipes that are taken from the plots and keepers of Manor Garden Allotments, which sadly no longer exist because they were paved over by the Olympics Committee.  If you are fan of the food of Yotam Ottolengi, Skye Gyngell, Simon Hopkinson or Nigel Slater I think you’ll love cooking from these books too. The recipes are very rustic and once you begin to understand some of the flavours (lots of spices, fresh produce and fresh herbs) and methods of cooking used, such as grilling, braising, crushing and the more general throwing together) you’ll be hooked.

If you are new to the Moro books then all you need to know is that Moro is one of the most successful Spanish restaurants in London. The restaurant opened in 1997 and is known for it’s amazing Moorish cuisine. At the helm are husband and wife team, Samual & Samantha Clark, who have an equally infectious passion for alluring food. Their recipes now span three cookbooks, which have recently been re-published in paperback by Ebury Press. The word ‘Moro’, meaning ‘Moor’ in Spanish, inspires a mix of Arabic and Hispanic dishes, where tapas sit alongside mezze. The Spanish flavours offer boldness and richness, the Muslim Mediterranean, including food from Morocco, Turkey, Egypt and Lebanon, bring lightness and fragrance to the table with equal gusto.

Here’s a taste of what’s on offer –

Moro the Cookbook (Book One)

Imagine Grilled chicken wings with tahini, Spiced labneh, Pinchitos morunos – Moorish skewers. A Feta salad with spinach, crispbread, sumac and pine nuts. Cod baked with tahini sauce. Roast shoulder of lamb with saffron rice. End with Churros con chocolate or a Seville orange tart. This book introduces us to some of the restaurant’s most popular recipes and is truly mouthwatering. I can’t wait to get stuck into this one. 

The Moro Cookbook

 

Casa Moro (Book Two)

Named after their house in Andalucía, Casa Moro explores the personal philosophy of food that Sam and Sam Clark encountered on their three-month honeymoon. Meat stews are slow-cooked, wild food, such as Rabbit rice with almond and rosemary, ancient ways of cooking are revealed, simple mountain and village food, including Turkish village soup with bread and caraway are brought to a new audience. My favourites also include Potato cakes stuffed with minced lamb and and pine nuts, Swordfish with pomegranate sauce, Roast lamb with quince purée, Fried aubergines with honey, Turrón and coffee ice-cream. Basically, this book makes me want to go travelling, now!

 

Casa Moro

 

Moro East (Book Three)

The third book has an even more interesting story to tell. The food is still essentially based on Muslim Meditarrenean cooking, but are from a little closer to home, from an allotmenet in the East End of London! Manor Garden Allotments was home to a large community of Turks, Cypriot, Greeks and Italians who cultivated the land and cooked an extraordinary range of recipes and dishes from the food grown on their allotments. Much of this food inspired the food at Moro and so the third book follows a year on the allotment. Very sadly, Manor Garden allotments, established in 1900, were bulldozed by the time the book was first published, in 2007, to make way for the 2012 Olympics!   Crops included wild plums, rhubarb, figs, herbs, British staple vegetables as well as the more exotic, such as artichokes, kholrabi and chillis. Despite a huge campaign and opposition to save the site and have it incorporated into the Olymic gardens, the Olympic Committee decided to use the land as a pathway between stadiums. The recipes were saved and make up this beautiful third book with stories from neighbouring allotment keepers as well as from Sam & Sam’s own plot.  

Moro East

 

As it is impossible to chose a favorite and so I am pleased to offer one lucky reader the complete set, just in time to inspire you for Christmas!

 

******************GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED********************

Here’s how to enter –

1. Follow Sam&Sam Clark  (@MoroSams) on Twitter and/or Ebury Publishing for a bonus entry and leave a comment to tell me you have done so

2. Follow Fabulicious Food on Twitter, Facebook, Network Blogs or Google Friend Connect (receive a bonus entry for each follow, just let me know by leaving a comment)

3. Copy and Tweet the following “I would love to win the new edition Moro cookery book collection via @RenBehan on #FabuliciousFood”

You can enter this competition via any or all of the ways described above. A winner will be chosen by an online randomiser.  No details of any of the entrants will be passed onto anyone else. I will be able to see your email and contact you if you have won, but your email will not be visible to the public and will NOT be passed on. The books will be sent out by Ebury Publishing.

This giveaway is open to UK residents only. 

Closing date: Thursday 17th November 2011, the winner will be contacted by email or via twitter on the same day.
 
******************GIVEAWAY NOW CLOSED******************* 
 
The winner is Janice @serialcrafter as per announcement post

 

Thank You to Ebury Publishing for sending me this beautiful collection to cook from.  

 

 

Similar Posts

210 Comments

  1. Barbara Edwards says:

    I am following you on twitter @barbmerv

  2. Barbara Edwards says:

    I’m following Ebury on Twitter

  3. Barbara Edwards says:

    I’ve tweeted @barbmerv

  4. Barbara Edwards says:

    I’m following Sam&Sam on Twitter @barbmerv

  5. Barbara Edwards says:

    I follow the blog on Googlefriendsconnect
    ..

  6. follow sam&samclark on twitter as #chuhuly

  7. follow ebury on twitter as #chuhuly

  8. follow you on twitter

  9. follow on fbook as name in email address

  10. Adrian Clarke says:

    Follow Follow , Likey Likey , Tweety Tweety!

  11. Hayley Morris Todd says:

    I also follow you on GFC as coppelia100

  12. Hayley Morris Todd says:

    I like Fabulicious Food on facebook 🙂

  13. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR ENTERING THIS GIVEAWAY IT IS NOW CLOSED

  14. I have tweeted about this giveaway. 🙂

  15. I follow fabulicious food on twitter

  16. I follow ebury publishing on twitter

  17. I follow Sam and Sam Clark on twitter

  18. Angie Hoggett says:

    I’ve tweeted @angiehoggett

  19. Angie Hoggett says:

    already follow you on GFC (angieh)

  20. Angie Hoggett says:

    already like you on FB

  21. Angie Hoggett says:

    already following you on twitter @angiehoggett

  22. Kirsty Fox says:

    I have tweeted – @bloomingfox

  23. Kirsty Fox says:

    I am following Fabulicious Food via GFC – robertfox24

  24. Kirsty Fox says:

    I am following Fabulicious Food via Networked Blogs – Kirsty Fox

  25. Kirsty Fox says:

    I am following Fabulicious Food on Facebook – Kirsty Fox

  26. Kirsty Fox says:

    I am following Fabulicious Food on Twitter – @bloomingfox

  27. Kirsty Fox says:

    I’m following Ebury on Twitter – @bloomingfox

  28. Kirsty Fox says:

    I am following Sam&Sam Clark (@MoroSams) on Twitter – @bloomingfox

  29. Fran Light says:

    I’m following Fabulicious on Facebook as Francesca Light-Wilson

  30. Fran Light says:

    I’ve tweeted the competition message as @LoveWinning 🙂

  31. Fran Light says:

    I’m following Sam&Sam on Twitter as @LoveWinning 🙂

  32. Angie Hoggett says:

    I’m following Ebury on Twitter — @angiehoggett

  33. Angie Hoggett says:

    Following Sam&Sam Clark (@MoroSams) on Twitter . @angiehoggett

  34. Michelle Rayner says:

    Following Fabulicious on Facebook

  35. SUSAN HALL says:

    I have liked you facebook

  36. SUSAN HALL says:

    Hi i now follow both Sam&Sam Clark and Ebury Publishing on twitter @straysuzi1

  37. helen rosbotham says:

    and have tweeted as @freyamae1

  38. helen rosbotham says:

    also liking on facebook

  39. helen rosbotham says:

    Also follwing fabulicious food as @freyamae1

  40. helen rosbotham says:

    Thankyou for this great giveaway following sam and sam clark and eburypublishing on twitter as @freyamae1

  41. Katherine coldicott says:

    Have tweeted @Dwerrycat

  42. Katherine coldicott says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Twitter(@Dwerrycat), Facebook,

  43. Katherine coldicott says:

    Following Sam&Sam Clark (@MoroSams) on Twitter . @Dwerrycat

  44. I have followed @MoroSams on twitter – @digbythedog

  45. I follow @RenBehan on twitter – @digbythedog

  46. I already follow @eburypublishing on twitter – @digbythedog

  47. I have followed you on twitter – @digbythedog

  48. Patricia Edwards says:

    Following Sam&Sam Clark (@MoroSams) on Twitter

  49. Patricia Edwards says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on FB

  50. Patricia Edwards says:

    I have tweeted

  51. Maya Russell says:

    I have tweeted.
    @maisietoo

  52. Maya Russell says:

    Following with Networked Blogs.

  53. Maya Russell says:

    Following with GFC as M

  54. Maya Russell says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on FB as Maya Russell

  55. Maya Russell says:

    Following Fabulicious on Twitter
    @maisietoo

  56. Maya Russell says:

    Follow Ebury Publishing on Twitter.
    @maisietoo

  57. Maya Russell says:

    Follow Sam&Sam Clark (@MoroSams) on Twitter
    @maisietoo

  58. Gillian Holmes says:

    I follow you on Twitter @12kazuko12

  59. sue willshee says:

    Have tweeted @piperanddaisy

  60. sue willshee says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Facebook (sue willshee) @piperanddaisy

  61. sue willshee says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Twitter @piperanddaisy

  62. sue willshee says:

    Following @MoroSams) and Ebury Publishing on twitter @piperanddaisy

  63. phyllis ellett says:

    Tweeted this great prize with @phyllgerry xx

  64. phyllis ellett says:

    Found you on NetworkedBlogs and following you with ID Phyllis Ellett

    @phyllgerry

  65. phyllis ellett says:

    Already following on GFC with ID phyllgerry

    @phyllgerry

  66. phyllis ellett says:

    Already following Fabulicious Food on FB with ID Phyllis Ellett

    @phyllgerry

  67. phyllis ellett says:

    Already following Fabulicious Food twitter with @phyllgerry

  68. phyllis ellett says:

    Already following @eburypublishing with @phyllgerry

  69. phyllis ellett says:

    Following @MoroSams with @phyllgerry

  70. Ben Audsley says:

    i have liked your facebook page and followed everyone you asked !

    i have tweeted your message as well!

    twittername @baudsley

  71. wendy moore says:

    Following on facebook

  72. Emily Fowler says:

    These look great! 🙂 Like Fabulicious Food on Facebook

  73. Beverley Marsh says:

    I’m following Fabulicious Food on Twitter and Facebook

  74. Beverley Marsh says:

    Following Sam&Sam Clark and Ebury Publishing on Twitter

  75. riddlexic says:

    following Sam&Sam Clark and Ebury Publishing on Tw, and already follow Fabulicios Foods on Tw and FB

  76. Melanie McNair says:

    I have tweeted @ MelJanie

  77. Melanie McNair says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Twitter @ MelJanie & On Facebook Melly McNair

  78. Melanie McNair says:

    Following Ebury Publishing on Twitter @ MelJanie

  79. Melanie McNair says:

    Following Sam & Sam Clark on Twitter @ MelJanie

  80. Susan Jackson says:

    have liked you on facebook and commented

  81. Jan Wroblewski says:

    Followed on Facebook

  82. I follow Sam & Sam on twitter (@mel_orr)

  83. I have tweeted about this giveaway (mel_orr)

  84. I already like your facebook page (under the name Melasaurus Owr)

  85. What an amazing giveaway!! I already follow you on twitter (mel_orr)

  86. Have tweeted the tweet thanks
    @LouiseRWs

  87. Already following Fabulicious Food on Twitter

  88. Following Sam&Sam Clark (@MoroSams) on Twitter
    @LouiseRWS

  89. And I follow you on twitter.

    And I’m ashamed to admit I don’t own a single Moro cookbook.

  90. Jane Willis says:

    have tweeted @janesgrapevine

  91. Jane Willis says:

    Following you with GFC Grape Vine

  92. Jane Willis says:

    Following you on Facebook Jane Willis

  93. Jane Willis says:

    Following out on Twitter @janesgrapevine

  94. Jane Willis says:

    I was already following Ebury Publishing on Twitter and have now followed @morosams
    @janesgrapevine

  95. Follow Fabulicious Food via Networked Blogs – Sarah Littleboo Anguish

    @littleboo_21

  96. Karen Scammell says:

    I Follow Sam&Sam Clark (@MoroSams) on Twitter and Ebury Publishing

  97. Please delete my entries, I just read this is for UK only. 🙁 My apologies.

  98. I’ve been lusting after the first book since I saw it at a friend’s a few years ago, but have somehow managed to resist. Had no idea there were more. Now of course I want the lot! Followed the story of the allotment loss at the time – having an allotment of our own, I was really upset by it.

    I’ve tweeted

  99. i follow with gfc as mummy24

  100. i have tweeted as @ashlallan

  101. follow Fabulicious Food on Twitter as eyreka1

  102. Follow Ebury publishing on Twitter as eyreka1

  103. Follow Sam and Sam on Twitter as eyreka1

  104. have tweeted @maxineflossy

  105. Already liked on facebook

  106. Following you on twitter @maxineflossy

  107. Following Ebury Publishing @maxineflossy

  108. Following @MoroSams @maxineflossy

  109. Stacey Guilliatt says:

    Following the blog via GFC

    Stacey G

  110. Stacey Guilliatt says:

    Following the blog via Networked Blogs

    Stacey Guilliatt

  111. Stacey Guilliatt says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Fbook

    Stacey Guilliatt

  112. Stacey Guilliatt says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Twitter

    @86PinkPrincess

  113. Stacey Guilliatt says:

    Following Sam&SamClark and Ebury Publishing on Twitter

    @86PinkPrincess

  114. Laura Pritchard says:

    Have tweeted the message @Isis1981uk

  115. Laura Pritchard says:

    Following blog on GFC.

  116. Laura Pritchard says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Facebook.

  117. Laura Pritchard says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Twitter @Isis1981uk

  118. Laura Pritchard says:

    Following Sam & Sam Clarke, & Ebury Publishing on Twitter @Isis1981uk

  119. Katherine Aitken says:

    Following on Networked Blogs too

  120. Katherine Aitken says:

    Following on GFC as nickandkatherine

  121. Katherine Aitken says:

    Following on facebook

  122. Katherine Aitken says:

    Following Fabulicious Food on Twitter as @mumoffunkids

  123. Katherine Aitken says:

    Following @Eburypublishing on Twitter as @mumoffunkids

  124. Katherine Aitken says:

    Following @MoroSams on Twitter as @mumoffunkids

  125. I already follow you on Twitter
    I like your FaceBook page Fabulicious Food.
    I’m following @MoroSams and Ebury publishing
    AND – I’ve tweeted the sentence: I would love to win the new edition Moro cookery book collection via @RenBehan on #FabuliciousFood

  126. I have tweeted about this fab comp. Aren’t those books just gorgeous? Great prize Ren xx

  127. Ali Campbell says:

    Following on Twitter @julietdog

  128. michelle olner says:

    liked and shared on facebook

  129. michelle olner says:

    Following sam and sam clark on twitter

  130. Leanne Bucknall says:

    Following @morosams on twitter

  131. michelle olner says:

    Following on twitter
    @queendosser

  132. Leanne Bucknall says:

    Following @morosams & Ebury Publishing
    Following Fabulicious Food on twitter & facebook & blog
    Tweeted @lebeeuk

  133. I follow the blog on Googlefriendsconnect

  134. I follow the morosams on Twitter @LouMcL

    1. Sharon Moncrieff says:

      I like on FB and follow all on twitter. Oh, and I re tweeted too 🙂

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *