Tweet Treats - a recipe book with a difference in aid of MSF

Update 12th Jan 2012: Interview with Tweet Treats author Jane Travers on Silicon Republic after being nominated for a Gourmand Award!

Twitter fans, and budding masterchefs take note:

MSF is delighted to announce the launch of Tweet Treats -a book of the shortest, sweetest, simplest recipes imaginable!

Inspired by Twitter, each recipe is complete in 140 characters or less. With 500 contributors – of whom 140 are household names – this book came about from the world’s love of good food without the fads.

Some examples include:

2 pkts digestive bisc,2 oz sugar,4 oz butter,2tbl sp cocoa.Mix crushed biscs in melted butter with sugar&cocoa. Put in tin & cover with choc @MiriamOCall

Brekkie Bagel: Whip egg in small bowl, thinly slice ham+tomato, add 2 the egg stick in microwave 4 2mins, put it between bagel! @thescript

Puttanesca pasta sauce onion, garlic, lives, capers, anchovies, chilli flakes, tomato sauce, parsley. Combine, reduce, eat. @tracy_chevalier

Whizz 50g coriander, 1tbs walnuts, 1 tbs chilli flakes 1 tbs lemon juice, 8 tbs olive oil and parmean to taste. Hey Pesto! @colmogorman

Fresh kale, lettuce, cucumber, spinach, blueberries, peaches, kiwi, almond milk, steva. Let it pirouette in blender till smooth @PaulaAbdul

Simmer ginger cloves brown sugar water for 20mins strain add btl red wine+some port heat 5 mins servene mulled wine delish @sheilaoflanagan

"In Tweet Treats it will take you less time to read the recipes than it would take to pour yourself a glass of wine! This book really is the love of food pared down to its bones; simple recipes, delicately expressed ... just as you would convey a recipe in a conversation with a friend.” - Marco Pierre White.

All royalties are being donated to MSF

Priced €7.99 you can buy the book online from any of the following outlets, and all royalties are being donated to MSF.

Tweet Treats will also be on sale in all good bookshops from October 10th. Spread - or tweet - the word!