On September 21st, two starred Michelin chef and TV personality Daniel Clifford's highly praised 'Out of my Tree- Midsummer House' will be going on general release. Part autobiography, and part cookbook, 'Out of my Tree – Midsummer House' is a warts and all account of the pressures and triumphs of his 20 years in the hospitality industry. This fabulous book makes for a fantastic Christmas present for aspiring chefs, foodie family and friends.

The book received tremendous praise from the UK's most celebrated chefs and journalists.  Michel Roux Jr has described the book as 'stunning', Tom Kerridge calls it a 'Heart opening insight into the great (sic) industry on earth!!” while Monica Galetti wrote “I'm meant to be in service but I have just read through to chapter six The Flood, really inspiring story and history, with great humour…”.  National columnist and food writer Andy Lynes even described it as 'the new White Heat'.

'Out of My Tree'recounts a tumultuous and yet inspiring story of one of the world's greatest chefs.   Revealing a man who even cancelled his own wedding to work, there are no stories missed out or punches pulled – whether it's discovering what life is like working under a chef like Marco Pierre White in his heyday, uncovering the bully boy tactics of a 1990s British kitchen or discussing his failed relationships, Daniel bares all. The book delves into his childhood and how his unsettled background drove him to make the most of his talent for cooking, as well as unpicking how those early years in some of the most brutal kitchens in the country turned him into the uncompromising chef he is today.

“I have been a chef most of my life. It's almost all I know. It's made me the man I am today – good and bad, happy and sad, right and wrong. This is the story of how I went from someone who no-one thought would amount to anything to a chef with two Michelin stars and a business I am fiercely proud of,” says Daniel.

The perfect coffee table book, it includes iconic recipes through the last twenty years with stunningly beautiful photography from Tim Green.  The recipes run alongside the story, chronologically, and reveal how his style has developed and become more refined over the years. Classic recipes include the 17 Pan Lamb from 1999, and Veal Kidneys recipes from both 2000 and 2004. Daniel's modern recipes include his Pommes Soufflé, Sour Cream and Chive from 2012, and Lychee, Yogurt and Rose Artichoke from 2016.

Daniel counts Tom Kerridge and Sat Bains as two of his closest friends and is widely regarded in industry circles as one of the country's most revered chefs, having won the Chefs' Chef of the Year at the 2015/16 AA Awards.

As Sat Bains puts it: “Midsummer House is Daniel's open love letter to gastronomy; a letter of heartache, pain, sorrow, absolute elation and joy that you'd have to be f****ing nuts to endure. He's proven that we all need goals and if we work hard enough we can achieve anything. I look at this as a chapter in his life that he can now reflect on, and the openness and intimate detail he goes into in this book is a joy to read.”

Published by Meze Publishing, at 416 pages, and a large format hardback, this is a book to do justice to someone who makes two Michelin starred cooking the standard.  RRP is £45 and the book is available NOW at the Midsummer House restaurant and online at www.midsummerhouse.co.uk or from Waterstones stores or online at https://www.waterstones.com/book/out-of-my-tree/daniel-clifford9781910863299.  On September 21st it will be available to buy from other book stores or on Amazon UK.

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About Daniel Clifford

A professional chef for over twenty years, Daniel is Chef Patron of the two Michelin-starred restaurant, Midsummer House in Cambridge, He is widely regarded as one of the most inventive and gifted chefs of his generation. Renowned for his modern British cooking, underpinned by an unmistakably French style, Daniel reinvents British classics using the finest local produce. He has held two Michelin stars since 2005.

Daniel Clifford was awarded the prestigious award of Chefs' Chef of the Year at the 2015/16 AA awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel. Daniel Clifford was praised for turning Midsummer House into one of the country's finest restaurants, while being an "inspiration to so many chefs at all levels.'' He is at Midsummer House five days a week.

Daniel regularly appears on television including BBC's annual Great British Menu which he has won twice and subsequently become a judge, and Saturday Kitchen as well as presenting the Irish version of Masterchef in 2017.

About Meze Publishing

Meze Publishing is the brainchild of specialist cook book designer, Paul Cocker and experienced publisher Phil Turner. The firm specialises in publishing cook books and has already published books for MasterChef finalist and Scottish Chef of the Year Adam Handling, Great British Menu's Colin McGurran and MasterChef champion Simon Wood, as well as creating a series of regional cook books throughout the UK. They are also winners of Best Newcomer at the IPG Independent Publishing Awards 2016. Phil Turner was also featured as one of The Bookseller's 2016 Rising Stars.