BACON ME CRAZY!

Eat 17 is a small, independently-owned and much-loved group of eateries and convenience stores based in east London. It was started by James Brundle and Chris O'Connor, two brothers in their early twenties, who, with only GBP5,000, transformed a run-down off-license in Walthamstow into a multi-million-pound retail revolution and world-class brand.

Eat 17's two shops are London fixtures, and the brothers recently took out a lease on a third site. Eat 17 has also recently started selling to a supermarket chain in Hong Kong and on mainland China.

The Bacon Jam Cookbook, as well as providing many recipes from Eat 17 and their suppliers, also describes what the brothers have achieved and how.

It is also, incidentally, a paean to bacon - (just about) everyone's favourite foodstuff.

http://www.eat17baconjam.co.uk
http://www.eat17.co.uk/

About the Author
In 2007, 22-year-old east London-born brothers, Chris O'Connor and James Brundle transformed a rundown off-licence called Paul's Wines in Walthamstow Village into an award-winning, world-class convenience store & restaurant concept named Eat 17 in honour of their local post code. Smoky-sweet Bacon Jam was created in the Walthamstow kitchen to top Eat 17's famous burgers. After it received national attention on the Jonathan Ross show and QI (bacon + jam? wtf?), Bacon Jam's popularity exploded. By the time the Guardian called it 'arguably [Walthamstow's] most unlikely and successful export', this pink-pig packaged, cult condiment was available nation-wide in supermarkets from Tesco to Sainsbury's, as well as at hundreds of quality independents throughout the UK and beyond.

Reviews
I defy you to pop into this [shop] for a pint of milk - it does normal products, too - without buying a jar of chorizo jam, two bespoke blueberry flapjacks from Walthamstow, a bottle of elderflower vodka and some Cornish honey-washed organic ewe's cheese - Evening Standard

Use it on: stilton - it's a revelation - Shortlist

Any BBQ deserves quality and condiments and Eat 17 Bacon Jam is a stellar addition to the classic ketchups and mustards - Daily Mail Weekend

Salty and delicious, and brilliant on burgers, sarnies, canapes and in stews - Daily Mail

Arguably the area's most unlikely and successful export - Guardian

It's the perfect salty/spicy barbeque burger relish - Sunday Times

Wicked - Evening Standard

Addictive with crusty bread - Woman magazine



Book Information
ISBN 9781472137241
Author Eat 17
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Robinson
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Weight(grams) 450g
Dimensions(mm) 217mm * 160mm * 19mm