By JULIA MOSKIN
Published: November 4, 2008
Published: November 4, 2008
THE English chef Simon Hopkinson wears his crown lightly. After being anointed author of the “most useful cookbook of all time” in 2005 for his work “Roast Chicken and Other Stories” by a panel of his British food-world peers, he might have cracked under the pressure: retired from the field, succumbed to crippling writer’s block or indulged in some scandalous behavior, like endorsing a line of frozen entrees. More