*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
*SHORTLISTED FOR BRITISH BOOK DESIGN & PRODUCTION AWARDS 2025*
'The Snack Hacker approach is about maximising flavour, banishing blandness and eliminating the closely guarded boundary between high and low taste ' NIGELLA LAWSON
'The cookbook I've been waiting for my entire life' JAMES ACASTER
AS HEARD ON THE CRAIG CHARLES SHOW ON BBC 6MUSIC, AND SEEN ON SUNDAY BRUNCH (Channel 4) AND SATURDAY KITCHEN (BBC1)
A collection of over 90 rule-breaking recipes of unpretentious cooking for everyone from the well-seasoned cook to the kitchen-shy greedy-guts.
George Egg inhabits a place where the potentially frowned-up (processed cheese, crabsticks, salad cream) sits with the gourmet (date syrup, tahini, seaweed) and on occasion the deluxe (lumpfish caviar, liquorice root powder, Babybel). Discover hacks for fast food favourites alongside 'proper' recipes, using surprising combinations, unexpected ingredients and unconventional methods as George guides you from Deep-fried Pot Noodle to Chip Shop Tortilla, Microwave Shakshuka to Twiglet Brownies and Peshwari Toasties to Beer-battered Celebrations.
Served with a generous helping of culinary memories and heart-warming stories, The Snack Hacker is a joyful celebration of food and a reminder that it's sensible to play in the kitchen.
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'Enough anarchy to make cooking fun. Enough love to make it brilliant' TIM HAYWARD
'This book will make your cooking much more enjoyable!' HARRY HILL
'The working man's Heston Blummenthal, or the thinking man's Guy Fieri. And I mean those as high, high compliments' TIM ANDERSON
'Beautifully designed, super accessible, honest, funny and completely irresistible' JOE LYCETT
'WOW-inducing recipes, ingenious gourmet hacks and flavour fireworks' GURDEEP LOYAL George Egg is a comedian, a cook and a content creator. Since 2015 he has written, produced and performed four live cooking-with-comedy shows. All four shows enjoyed sell out runs at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and went on to tour both nationally as well as overseas.
During the Covid lockdown George began producing 'Snack Hacker', his short-form online food show in which he interferes with familiar food items, improving them and creating innovative recipes with food-centric stand-up. Over one hundred episodes later, the show has amassed tens of millions of views, an avid social media following and has attracted a slew of A-list guests from the worlds of comedy and food, including Romesh Ranganathan and James Acaster. The show's success has in turn lead to George appearing as a 'celebrity chef' at numerous food festivals, as well as winning Content Creator of the Year at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drinks Awards 2024.
George has appeared (and cooked) on Channel 4's Bake Off: An Extra Slice and Steph's Packed Lunch, ITV's This Morning and BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends as well as guest-presenting an episode of BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme. He now features regularly on Loose Ends as one of the shows roster of co-hosts and appears every Monday on Craig Charles' BBC 6 Music show where he talks snacks. Cookbook by award-winning cook, comedian and content creator George Egg, showing you how to make creative and inventive snacks by using what's in your store cupboard and modifying existing products. Over 100k Instagram followers with views across his Instragram 'Snack Hacker' series racking up over 2.5 million views Rising profile - weekly slot on Craig Charles' BBC 6Music radio show, regular appearances on BBC Radio 4's Loose Ends, winner of 'Content Creator of the Year' award at the Fortnum and Mason Food and Drink Awards 2024 and multiple appearances at summer food festivals. Always showcasing his food with his comedy, live demonstrations and gets out and about to various events all year round. Continued visibility without having to push Author has great connections in both the food and comedy world - including James Acaster, John Robins, L
