'It's not often that you come across someone with a fresh way of thinking about food, but Laura Santtini is one of them.' -- Lucas Holweg, Sunday Times Style 'A foodie apothecary of flavours [her] spice rack will revolutionize your kitchen.' -- Stylist magazine 'The Domestic goddess is so last season, this is the year of the Domestic Alchemist!' -- The Culinary Guide 'Her food is a daring mix of unexpected ingredients that surprises and delights at every turn.' -- LivingEtc 'Ms Santtini's book is what Ferraris are to Fords. It's bold, beautiful and daring.' -- A Forkful of Spaghetti '...it may be her Venetian ancestry coming out in her blood... Her food alchemy is a novel concept and has a lively, mythical magic.' -- Steenbergs Organics

Laura Santtini is half Italian, a quarter Persian with a pinch of Sephardic and the rest an English-Irish mix; she's the self-confessed genetic equivalent of a Molotov cocktail. Acclaimed as the 'Mistress of Flavour', food is in Laura's DNA and much of her passion for it came from her family, as her parents founded the renowned Italian restaurant Santini in London's Belgravia, which Laura ran for several years. She later established herself as the world's first gastro-therapist while writing for Waitrose Food Illustrated. Her first book, Easy Tasty Italian won the Guild of Food Writers Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book in 2010. In the same year she translated her intense flavour combinations central to the book into an innovative and hugely internationally successful range of food products, Laura Santtini's Spellbinding Flavours, including her phenomenally popular Taste #5 Umami Paste. Laura is currently providing her bitter-sweet gastro therapy/agony aunt advice for AOL's Mydaily. She lives in South West London with her husband and two children. www.laurasanttini.com