An Epicurean Journey through the Gastronomic Landscape and Bacchanalian Underworld.

Olimax’ latest book combines his skills as a photographer with those as a chef and gastronomist. It documents the rapid rise and fall of his restaurant, GROS, and celebrates culinary culture the world over, all extensively illustrated with food photography and portraits.

This book may contain: Recipes, Techniques, Accessories, Fine Dining, Restaurants, Eggs, a lot of eggs, Haggis, Baby Piglets, Salad Dissing, Brains, Lashings of Cocktails, Ice Creams, Dick, Sticky Puddings, Ritual Slaughter, Coffee and much epicurean appropriation.

Available from Amazon here:
Paperback ISBN: 979-8374048520
Hardback ISBN: 979-8371051592

Review of Extreme Lunching in the Spring 2024 issue of The Chap magazine.

“His first recipe is for suckling pig, setting the stage for a series of recipes that are clearly not going to contain any vegan options. Following the great Spanish tradition of not wasting a single morsel of any slaughtered animal, elements like the brains of sheep, cows and pigs are put to excellent use, including ‘Cervelle de Veau au Beurre Noisette’. Many of the recipes could quite easily have come from the closely guarded recipe book of Aunt Dahlia’s coveted French chef Anatole (“God’s gift to the gastric juices”) in the PG Wodehouse books. Others, meanwhile, could have come from the journals of Hannibal Lecter.”

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An illustrated compendium of booze, boozers and boozing, written from the perspective of a lifetime of relentless, selfless and, at times, extremely intimate research into this specialist field, often with complete disregard for personal safety and well-being.

It’s all about drink but the many aspects thereof.

• • Tons of ingenious recipes to inspire the befuddled chef in the kitchen
  • Hundreds of cocktails and punches, both the classical and the more avant-garde
  • Histories of beer and brewing, wine and wine making, spirits and distillation
  • Ramblings around treasured bars and bartenders, both past and present, near and far
  • Palpable instructions to effortlessly create your own liqueurs, spirits and bitters at home
  • A bit of modernist booze science and magic to flabbergast your sottish guests
  • And a few personal reminiscences of a boyhood in the Hop Garden of England

Altogether an excellent vade mecum to peruse on either side of the jump, in the kitchen or on the bog.

290 gin-soaked pages of glorious booze, this hefty tome weighs as much as a bottle of London gin and comes up to its shoulders.
All written, designed and illustrated by Olimax

Now available from Amazon:
Hardback ISBN: 979-8323680559
ASIN: B0D7TT7K2T
7″ x 11″
288pp
Price £54 GBP

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The cockcrow companion to Olimax’ Extreme Lunching. An exuberant compendium of all things breakfast, designed to inspire flair and ingenuity for your morning repast.

It features unique, innovative recipes and gastronomic classics from the world’s tables, with rousing, diverse cocktails to kickstart the day with gusto, and potent hangover remedies to soothe the night’s warriors.

Make no mistake, this is not brunch—this is war on the mundane, a boozy, culinary revolution served at dawn.

Now available from Amazon here:
Paperback ISBN: 9798884477605
Hardback: ISBN: 9798320061535
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