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This week, I met up with Pitt McCormack, who is the lifestyle director for Red Magazine. He oversees all the food and

interiors content in the best-selling women's monthly title in its field. He formerly worked

as the food and interiors editor at the Sunday Times style, and he's also created a recognizable voice

for himself with his popular recipe review blog, Pip cooks the books. He has now

published two beautiful books all about cooking with edible flowers and growing your own herbs.

I wanted to catch up with Pip and find out the inspiration for the books, all about his

glamorous job, and of course, pick his brains about the best places to eat in London.

Pitt made me some insanely good cookies which I shnaffled on the way home and I felt very

guilty that I didn't make him anything. Sorry Pip. I hope you will enjoy this week's episode

and I'll see you on the other side.

So, although you're known for many amazing things, I first came across you when you wrote your blog, Pip cooks the books, which was Frank.

And I hope you don't mind me saying, but it was deliciously bitchy.

So rather than just testing out recipe books, you actually did exactly what the recipe said.

And that's not that easy because we like to meddle and, you know, if something's boiling dry,

we fix it. If you run out of something, you can just add something else, but you didn't do that.

And the consequences were often hilarious. Oh, thank you so much. I mean, it was quite

counterintuitive to cook exactly as the book suggests, because as you say, you really want

to change things. And sometimes you think, oh, do you know, what a pinch of extra of this or a bit

more of that will really make a difference. But the reason I started doing that blog was because I had lots of my friends who were not

very confident cooks and they felt they would try recipes that then wouldn't work and would

blame themselves.

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