Mikey Bell is a writer and former food columnist for Voice and Buzz magazines. His writing and recipes have been featured widely, including the Western Mail, Vegan Food & Living, Blasus, Halen Môn, Eating Out Wales, and as Nigella Lawson’s Post of the Week. A fluent Welsh speaker, Mikey lives in Cardiff with his partner and their two French Bulldogs, Waffle and Rico. How an Egg Changed My Life is his first book.

• Prologue A perfect dippy egg One Lamb cawl & dumplings Two A better burger with onions Three Bronwen’s Sky Cake Four Redemption carrot cake with pecan brown butter frosting Five (An appropriately salted) porcini & bacon risotto Six Poached eggs in chilli tomatoes Seven Pomegranate & treacle ham Eight A simple white loaf Nine Homemade pasta with sage & pistachio butter sauce Ten Welsh cakes Eleven Fried-cheese sandwich & tomato soup Twelve Crempogau Thirteen Spatchcocked anchovy & wild garlic roast chicken Epilogue A perfect poached egg Author’s note Acknowledgements

Mikey Bell weaves a story through life and food, showing how the two are always interconnected – even if we don’t know it at the time. Meaningful food doesn’t mean being a Michelin-starred chef – sometimes it’s as simple as boiling an egg! How an Egg Changed My Life is for those of us living an ordinary life – and finding the joy in that; a slice of Welsh life; and the kind of LGBTQ+ story that hinges on hope and family of all kinds. And from a perfect dippy egg to a risotto to impress a date or a cake worthy of a last meal, Mikey’s recipes have it all.