This is food you want to eat, shared by chef and influencer Thomas Straker to his 5M following, and now in his first cookbook. All the recipes in his debut cookbook are simple, seasonal and flavour-led, for example:
Roast chicken with butter beans and salsa verde
Baked cod with tomato, basil and breadcrumbs
Roasted Romanesco with bulgar wheat and tahini
Set custard with rhubarb
He also shares favourite recipes beloved on his socials for flavoured butters, flatbreads and more.
Thomas is a new gen chef who cooks with the same stylish simplicity whether at home, online, or in the kitchen of his acclaimed London restaurant, STRAKER'S. He breaks down barriers between chef food and home cooking thanks to his simple recipes that are both elevated and achievable for home cooks. There is no compromise when it comes to his recipes: this is the food that he and his worldwide fans want to eat.
Food You Want to Eat
By Thomas Straker
This is food you want to eat, shared by chef and influencer Thomas Straker to his 5M following, and now in his first cookbook.
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Bloomsbury Publishing
May 2025
Format: Hardback / 246 x 189mm
272 pages
About the Author
Thomas Straker is a British chef, based in London. He started his journey as a chef after leaving school in 2008, but really it began long before that, growing in Herefordshire where his parents kept special breed sheep, and he prides himself on his deep knowledge of produce and good farming. Tom’s mother also owned a local pub where he gained his first exposure to commercial kitchens at the ripe old age of 12.
He has worked in some of London’s top restaurants: The Dorchester, Dinner and Elystan Street to name a few. During lockdown, Tom started creating recipe videos on Instagram, his knowledge of how to create delicious recipes at home has now amassed a following of over 3m people worldwide. Tom recently opened his first restaurant STRAKER’S to critical acclaim and it has been cited as one of the most sought-after tables in London. This is his debut cookbook.
