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[[Category:New Reviews|Cookery]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Adam Federman1454955546|title= Fasting and Feasting - The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience GraySugarless|rating= 4|genreauthor= Biography |summary= For more than thirty years, Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed--lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbours in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great food writers of her time: Nicole M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, and Julia Child. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, the BBC described her as an ''almost forgotten culinary star.'' Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other food writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and regional cuisines. Gray's prescience was unrivalled: She wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement--from foraging to eating locally--long before it became part of the cultural mainstream. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1603587527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Mordechai|title=Simple Fare: Spring and Summer|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Karen Mordechai's family history has its roots in the Jerusalem of the 1950s, when people from around the globe were coming together in a young country and forming their own way of living. When the family then emigrated to the United States they brought this way of cooking with them, along with the tradition of sharing and enjoying food. Mordechai believes that food's ability to bring people together is unparalleled and that the food you make is a compilation of the way you have lived. Thinking back over the food we eat, that is so true and for the first time I looked on a recipe book as an elegant way of seeing someone else's history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419724142</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Miller|title=Five Ways to Cook Asparagus (and Other Recipes): the Art and Practice of Making DinnerAvena

|genre=CookeryLifestyle|summary=When you've been producing meals for around about half 'This isn't a century the chances are that, like me, you have a fairly regular set of menus which you producediet book. Hopefully itThe last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''s  There was a time, not quite in the 'fishcakes! Goodness is that long ago, when it Friday already?' realm but you probably have something in your culinary locker was thought that sugary food was better for every occasion. It takes a very good book to make you settle down and actually read what it has to offer and it's an exceptional one where you end up than food with lots of doghigh-eared pages for recipes fat content. Fat was the demon food which you're was going to tryelevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. The inspiration to read There''Five Ways to Cook Asparagus'' was simple s a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and serendipitous - I'd just come home with the first of the season's English asparagus when the book arrived can hijack your brain in much the postsame way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. I couldnDoes that sound over the top? Well, it isn't ''not'' have a look, now could I?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419723936</amazonuk>.

<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lily Kunin1635866847|title=Good Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your BestThe Lavender Companion|ratingauthor=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Lily Kunin is a health coach Jessica Dunham and creator of [http://www.cleanfooddirtycity.com/ clean food dirty city site] and [https://www.instagram.com/cleanfooddirtycity/?hl=en instagram account]. She'd always been a food lover but her attitude to the food she was eating changed when she began to suffer from migraines. A long (and bad) time later she tried avoiding gluten and her symptoms were alleviated within 48 hours. From this she developed her food philosophy of seeing an intolerance to gluten as a creative opportunity. I liked that she has ''a constant dialogue'' with her body rather than sticking to a restrictive regime. That I can empathise with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419723901</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Yuchi Yang|title=A Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple StepsTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and sheIt's allowing us strange, the benefit of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure things that make you ''withoutimmediately'' taking medication, although she does stress feel that if this is the book for you . Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''are, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' taking medication you shouldns a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't stop doing so without consulting your doctoreat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. You can reduce your BP (There's a recipe in six stepsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are actually sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a lot simpler than they soundproblem. Does it work? Yes, it does: I've been eating this way for more than two years and I've gone from having loved'very worrying' blood pressure readings to getting a smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sortthis book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paola Bacchia3791388398|title=Italian Street FoodNew European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel Kratochvila|rating=4.5

|summary=Books about Italian food are everywhere, with This is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for pizzabreads, pasta dishes brioches and all pastries but the usual suspects. In a winter which seems to be starting hard all too early what I wanted was sunshine recipes are interwoven with some thought- and the sort of food which you find provoking writing on the Italian streets how bread - and baking - have changed in those bars which only the locals know abouttwentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It's the sort of food which you eat on the move, or leaning against We start with the bar basics - tables and chairs don't usually come into the equation. For the most part it doesnequipment you't aspire to being ll need (there''healthy'' - frying plays a larger part than it does in a virtuous diet s nothing extravagant or indulgent) and it is a little short on fruit and veg - but we can all be a bit naughty on occasionsthe ingredients, can't we?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925418189</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|where the author=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|title=Gruffalo Crumble and Other Recipes|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=It is hard to imagine, but the original Gruffalo book came out almost twenty years agoparticular. This is a franchise You might not have realised that just keeps rolling different salts can change the flavour and sensation on. Certainly, you can buy the book or tongue of the sequel, finished product but if you visit a shop you will find Gruffalo toys, cardsapparently, even egg cups. Each year brings with it a new idea of how to push the Gruf and palsthey do. 2016 is the year of the recipe book, but will it live up to the quality of the original?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Archer and Caroline Craig1398508632|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatWilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=I grew up in It had been on the cards for a while but it was the immediate post war periodweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. Growing your own vegetables The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been a necessity in the war exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and it was still a habit for those who pandemic. Wilde had a bit of garden, so ''The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook'' few advantages: the area around her was a real pleasure for me, as well as known habitat with a touch variety of nostalgiaterrains. The principle is very simple: show children how She had electricity which allowed her to grow their own vegetables run a fridge, freezer and then how to transform them into delicious fooddehydrator. It sounds simple, doesn't it? She had a car - and fuel. WellMost importantly, it might come as she had shelter: this was not a surprise, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amelia Freer1635864674|title=Cook. Nourish. Glow.Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy Howard

|summary=It''Think of it as no-whining dining.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just about a year since I read Amelia Freer's [[Eatgoes to show how versatile the tomato is. Nourish. Glow.: 10 easy steps for losing weight Then there are all the different types, looking younger not to mention the cultivars - and feeling healthier by Amelia Freer|Eatyou begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. Nourish. Glow.]], a book which quietly impressed me and which I hung on to (not something 'd argue with her there - I do regularly) and have referred back to many times no affection for inspiration and a quick boost to the spirit. Most of the principles behind ones you find in the book seemed sound, although I wasnsupermarket ''next''t prepared to go down the wheat-free road as Iones labelled 'grown for flavour've no reason to think distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I'm sensitive d prefer a tin of tomatoes to gluten those - and I do wonder how most Howard makes good use of the world would be fed if we all gave up eating wheat - but if I felt the book had a shortcoming, it was the lack of recipesthese. Well, thatShe's now been remediednot at all precious if you get the taste.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405924187</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine Pascal0241480442|title=Eating Well Made EasyHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Deliciously healthy recipes for everyone, every dayVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|summary=Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[:Category:Lorraine Pascal|Lorraine PascalHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] specialises and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in no-nonsenseour search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, simple recipes that provide delicious results; I am not a vegan. It worked for a speciality that has afforded her while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a deserved space perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in today's crowded celeb chef cultureyour lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. LorrainIt wasn's ethos t the taste - I know that I can get plant-based food that tastes just as good as anything plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in ''Eating Well Made Easy'' is to provide recipes for everyone, encompassing vegetarians, allergy sufferers and those who just want something delicious, all with a healthy spinfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489706</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marlena de Blasi1529418100|title=The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper ClubBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker

|genre=BiographyShort Stories|summary= Author Marlena de Blasi lives in I'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the (as far as book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I can tell from having am a quick google), beautiful small Italian city fan of Orvieto – deep Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the beautiful Umbrian countryside. Having lived there for some time, she gradually becomes aware of the Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club – a group of Italian ladies who meet once a week for supper, temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist and to talkI'm rather glad that I didn't even try. Whilst it takes her some time, Marlena eventually manages For those new to be accepted into the groupseries, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and begins the background to cook and eat with these unique and fascinating ladies, sharing both tales of life, love, and death, and taking part why Bruno is in delicious home cooked mealsSt Denis. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954304</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William Davis1787332098|title=Wheat Belly: The effortless health and weightHow to Love Animals in a Human-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialShaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: why is it that people who are leading an active life cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and eating a healthy diet are putting so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on weight despite all their best efforts? He has a simple sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and worrying answer: wheatmillions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere, which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugar'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series. The problem isn't restricted ' I was going to weight gainargue. I mean, either: therecows are for cheese (I couldn's evidence t consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to suggest that wheat affects psychosis animals - and autism tooI consider myself an animal lover. In fact - If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the more animals. I insisted that you I readthis book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the more you'll wonder if there's an organ in the body which ''isn't'' adversely affected by wheatdecision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Abood0008333173|title=Rose Water and Orange BlossomsHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace Dent|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the judges on ''Rose Water and Orange BlossomsMasterchef'' began life as a blog. Maureen Abood grew up with flavours of the Lebanon around her - the scent of floral waters and cinnamon, lentils, bulgur wheat and yoghurt, but You know that you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of all, the succulence of lambtime. She revisits the recipes which nourished her childhood, sometimes remaining faithful to the original, but occasionally giving them You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of her personal twist. The whole family has contributed (even if not directly) to the food which she produces and sometimes the recipes have been handed down for generations, but itI's not just ve often wondered about the food which comes alive in her hands, but woman behind the media image and ''peopleHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' who come alive as is a stunning read which will make you readlaugh and break your heart in equal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762454865</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amelia FreerTee_Gross|title=Eat. Nourish. Glow.: 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger This Cookbook is Gross|author=Susanna Tee and feeling healthierSanty Gutierrez

|genre=LifestyleChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Amelia Freer had struggled with her own health for The misuse of language is a while and modern disease. Too many times something is described as awesome or stupendous, but were you truly awed by it reached a stage where she was waking up feeling tired and groggy, relying on ten cups a day ? Or stupefied? People just seem to pluck words out of sugary tea to perk her up and her food was mainly processed convenience foods. At the time she was working as a PA to Prince Charles ether and loved the job but her busy life meant pretend that she made automatic food choices without consideration of what they were doing to her healthare the correct ones. It wasnAre the recipes in Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez't until she went to see a nutritionist that she realised what she had been doing and made s 'This Cookbook is Gross' truly gross? For once the decision language is not only to change her dietoverplayed. These recipes may taste nice, but to train to be a nutritionistin appearance, they are absolutely vile. The result is a busy practice - and this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000757990X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lani Kingston1848993609|title=How to Make CoffeeGood Mood Food: The Science Behind Unlock the BeanPower of Diet to Think and Feel Well|author=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona|rating=4.5

|summary=Have you ever caught I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked the aroma idea of coffee brewing but when it came to that first sip the taste has been, well, distinctly underwhelming - and you might actually have preferred a glass series of water? recipes which would make me feel happy. Well, Lani Kingston has written For once this isn'How to Make Coffeet a case of ' which takes you from plant if it sounds too good to cupbe true, tells you how to make the perfect drink and explains the science behind it. Itprobably is' - it's a comprehensive book which gives you an overview case of the history of coffee, the areas in getting something which it originated and how it spread before moving on to an explanation of could change your life for the chemistry behind what is probably the world's favourite drinkbetter - for good - rather than a quick fix.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ella Woodward0241367875|title=Deliciously EllaCompletely Perfect: Awesome Ingredients, Incredible Food That You and Your Body Will Love120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook|author=Felicity Cloake|rating=45

|summary=Last year I had some health problems which caused me It's a novel concept for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found to take do a hard look at particular job - the job of delivering the best meal, the ''Completely Perfect'' meal of the way that I was eating: within a month or so I was feeling a lot better title. Think of it as the equivalent of a result of comparison site for when you want to renew the changes car insurance and six months on I can't imagine going back to then taking the way that I used best elements out of each recipe to eatmake perfection. But there was one snagThere's nothing cutting edge here: it's the sort of food which we seemed to be 've been eating the same few dishes most of the time for decades and I needed fresh inspirationprobably will be for decades to come. There's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble 'Deliciously Ella'works'' was the book everyone seemed to be talking about and with providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a few clicks vegan at table, it was on its way 's a meal which is unlikely to me from Amazondo other than go down well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444795007</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer KlinecKay Vintage|title=The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in IranVintage Kitchenalia|author=Emma Kay

|summary=Over the half-century and more that I know that they're not good for me, but ve been preparing meals on a regular basis I do love cakes've seen food preparation move from being just something you did to an obsession akin to a religion. There's always so ''much'' My first kitchen had nothing in the way of them though luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and I'm economically as possible: my current kitchen is not going to let them go to waste, am I? I love making them too, but no matter how hard I try they always seem to end up more Little Chef than Masterchef. When I found ''Treat Petitequite'' state of the art, but it seemed that I just might have found the answer to my prayers. It's equipped to a book of forty two recipes for tiny petit fours, little sponge cakes, jewel-like macaroons high standard and gorgeous savouriesis a pleasure to work in. They're But what of all mere morsels - just big enough the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to pop into your mouthgive you a quick trip through the history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil DaveyJopson_Science|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate (Bluffer's Guides)Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cook|author=Marty Jopson

|summary=I've always been believed that if you understood ''why'' something worked in a little bit nervous about the particular way it was very easy to remember ''Blufferhow'' series, on the basis that I would be sure to come out with a clever-sounding phrase, only it worked and what you needed to be found out when someone asked the follow-up questiondo. Better, I thought to stay silent and appear ignorant than The food we eat is no exception to open my mouth this rule and prove myself a fool. But then ''The BlufferOne Show's Guide ' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to Chocolate'' came my way explain how things work in the kitchen - and I couldn't resist - any more than I've ever been able he covers everything from the type of knives we use through to resist chocolatethe food of the future. Best of all, he does it in language that even a science illiterate like me can understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937045</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel KhooHayward New|title=My Little French Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's KitchenNotebook|author=Vicky Hayward

|summary=France is Rachel KhooIn 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''s adopted country. She lives in Paris and to write this book she travelled to New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the four corners School of the country to sample the local dishes and special ingredients to be found thereEconomic Experience''. It's a look at local marketscontained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, shopsgame, villages salted and townsfresh fish, farms vegetables and homes - desserts. The style was informal, chatty and the local customs humorous on occasions and quirks it was aimed, not at those who could afford to be found in each areacook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. You get over a hundred recipes and plenty of images which set Whilst the scene or illustrate ingredients were - for the finished dish. In more complicated dishes you even get most part - modestly priced there is a series stress on the careful combination of pictures to help you understand what you're doing - flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and all the pictures are bluntness of excellent quality. It's not just a coffee table book - if you've an interest some Moorish cooking is eschewed in French cooking then youfavour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras're going to get it sauce splatteredown region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177479</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie AlpersFederman_Fasting|title=Sprinkles! Recipes Fasting and Ideas for Rainbowlicious DessertsFeasting - The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray|author=Adam Federman|rating=34

|summary=A friend had taken his granddaughter For more than thirty years, Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed--lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbours in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a picnic steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and he'd gone isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to town on the other great foodwriters of her time: M. F. K. The pudding was decorated but the child seemed distracted: Fisher, Elizabeth David, and Julia Child: Grandad. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, therethe BBC described her as an 's an insect in my pudding'almost forgotten culinary star. Grandad: No, darling - they're called 'hundreds Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and thousands' other food writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and theyregional cuisines. Gray're there to make your pudding look pretty. Childs prescience was unrivalled: Grandad, one of my hundreds and thousands is climbing up She wrote about what today we would call the side Slow Food movement--from foraging to eating locally--long before it became part of the bowl..cultural mainstream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Del Mar Sacasa and Tara StrianoMordechai_Simple|title=Winter CocktailsSimple Fare: Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, Spring and Cocktail Party SnacksSummer|author=Karen Mordechai|rating=3.54

|summary=I nearly didnKaren Mordechai't read this book - ''cocktails'' are not something which appear s family history has its roots in the Jerusalem of the 1950s when people from around the globe were coming together in our house - but fortunately I had a look at young country and forming their own way of living. When the family then emigrated to the subtitle and realised that mulled cidersUnited States they brought this way of cooking with them, hot toddies, punches along with the tradition of sharing and pitchers appealed a great deal moreenjoying food. IMordechai believes that food'm never averse s ability to something warm bring people together is unparalleled and reviving after being out in that the food you make is a compilation of the winter coldway you have lived. Even better Thinking back over the food we eat, that is so true and for the fact that it all comes in first time, I looked on a well-presented, hardback recipe book which will stand a lot as an elegant way of duty in the kitchenseeing someone else's history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746419</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel SlaterMiller_Five|title=Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=In my kitchen there's a battered Five Ways to Cook Asparagus (in both senses of the wordand Other Recipes) copy of ''Real Fast Food'', Nigel Slater's first book. Twenty one years later he's revisited : the idea Art and given us ''Eat: The Little Book Practice of Fast Food''. Now it's 'small' as any book containing over six hundred ideas for dinners (complete with lots of excellent photographs by Jonathan Lovekin) can be small - and the food is fast in the sense that you're talking about a maximum of an hour, although occasionally the cooking takes longer. I'm glad that we're moving away from the idea of getting food on the table as quickly as possible - it's not a race - as cooking can be a real pleasure and eating it an even bigger one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007526156</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMaking Dinner|author=Paul Hollywood|title=Paul Hollywood's Bread: How to make great breads into even greater mealsPeter Miller

|summary=It was When you've been producing meals for around about half a century the chances are that, like me, you have a happy accident fairly regular set of menus which started me watching Paul Hollywoodyou produce. Hopefully, it's television series about bread and baking - and not quite in the 'fishcakes! Goodness is it quickly became compulsive viewingFriday already?' realm but you probably have something in your culinary locker for every occasion. We were predisposed It takes a very good book to make you settle down and actually read what it has to the basic idea as offer and it's many years since we last bought a loaf, but we've always used a breadan exceptional one where you end up with lots of dog-maker. The results have been good and far better than anything eared pages for recipes which you could buy anywhere but an artisan bakery, but there are limitations as 're going to what you can maketry. I was tempted The inspiration to see what else we could achieve and whilst the television series didnread 't promise that it would be 'Five Ways to Cook Asparagus'easy'was simple and serendipitous - I' it did leave me d just come home with confidence that we could do the first of the season''better''. Buying s English asparagus when the book was arrived in the next steppost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408840693</amazonuk> I couldn't ''not'' have a look, now could I?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kunin_Good|title=Chloe Coker Good Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Jane Montgomery Feel Your Best|titleauthor=The Vegetarian PantryLily Kunin

|summary=Chloe Coker and Jane Montgomery arenI've got to begin by outlining a bias: I don't strict vegetarianslike food fads. There's a very good reason for avoiding gluten if you are coeliac, but they are if it's simply a food choice then you make life more difficult for people who ''passionate about fresh, healthy, seasonal, meat-free cooking.must'' avoid gluten. A shared frustration about being unable The same point applies to find the inspiration and ideas they wanted led to this book, with its recipes which will appeal to everyone from strict vegetarians to meat eatersa lot of other food 'intolerances'. Reassuringly I believe in eating a balanced diet but will happily admit that I have my own no-go areas: I don't eat processed sugars because they're not out empty calories and after a couple of weeks without them I discovered that I don't actually like the taste. I don't touch caffeine and haven't done so since I discovered what it did to convert anyone - just to give some inspirationmy blood pressure. Having said all this, particularly I'm quite happy to people who havenread books which ''do''t tried this type of advocate avoiding certain food before. Some recipes are suitable for vegans groups, simply because (or can a) there ''might'' be easily adaptedsomething in it and (b) and theypeople who're clearly marked, as are those suitable for people ve had to the inventive to create a varied diet with restricted ingredients often come up with a gluten intolerancesome excellent recipes. And that was how I came to ''Good Clean Food''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184975344X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Will TorrentYang_Food|title=Patisserie at HomeA Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple Steps|author=Yuchi Yang

|summary=IYuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and she've always been in awe s allowing us the benefit of people who her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure ''without'' taking medication, although she does stress that if you ''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctor. You can make great desserts - the ones reduce your BP in six steps, which taste amazing AND look stunning on the plateare actually a lot simpler than they sound. Does it work? Yes, it does: I have used [[The Roux Brothers on Patisserie by Michel and Albert Roux]] (that's Michel Roux senior, by the ve been eating this way and not his son) but I found the book almost pernickety in some of its requirements for more than two years and I've long wished for a book which was rather more relaxed and aimed at the home cook rather than someone who aspired gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings to be getting a professional chef. smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that'Patisserie at Home'' seemed to fit the bills without taking medication of any sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849753547</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah MilesBacchia_Italian|title=CheesecakeItalian Street Food|author=Paola Bacchia

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