CAMRA's Beer and Food book
The Campaign for Real Ale has launched a book aimed at encouraging more people to try beer with their food by telling them where to find "real food and real ale".
CAMRA says the book, Good Pub Food by Susan Nowak and Jill Adam, is the definitive guide to fine cuisine and excellent beer.
Quality of ale as well as foodAuthor Susan Nowak said: "There are 600 entries UK-wide featuring the pubs serving excellent food and, equally important, excellent real ale within this guide. Apart from food, the emphasis is on beer rather than wine, and this is still the only guide where a pub qualifies for the quality of its ale as well as its food."
The foreword to Good Pub Food has been written by Michelin starred celebrity chef Jean-Christophe Novelli, who recently opened his own first gastro-pub, the White Horse in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.
This is the sixth edition of Good Pub Food and it has been seven years since the last edition.
Susan Nowak says pub food has gone through an incredible revolution in that time.
Rise of the gastro pubSome of the topics that are included are the rise of the gastro pub and celebrity chefs, pubs using local produce, cooking with beer and pairing beer with food and the unfortunate occurrence of poor food for children in pubs.
Susan said: "The very best news since Good Pub Food last appeared is the explosion of pubs now sourcing fine local produce - the publicans who go that extra mile to cut food miles.
"So many beer recipes were donated by publicans for this guide that we can't fit them all in. Try them, you'll find them much more inventive than the standard steak and ale casserole."
