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[[Category:New Reviews|Cookery]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Del Mar Sacasa and Tara Striano1454955546|title=Winter Cocktails: Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, and Cocktail Party SnacksSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=3.5|genre=CookeryLifestyle|summary=I nearly didn't read this book - 'This isn'cocktails'' are not something which appear in our house - but fortunately I had t a look at the subtitle and realised that mulled ciders, hot toddies, punches and pitchers appealed a great deal more. I'm never averse to something warm and reviving after being out in the winter colddiet book. Even better The last thing anyone needs is the fact that it all comes in a well-presented, hardback another diet book which will stand a lot of duty in the kitchen.''
There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. There's a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. Does that sound over the top? Well, it isn't.}}<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>1594746419<Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/amazonuk>website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the 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 sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel Slater3791388398|title=Eat - The Little Book of Fast FoodNew European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel Kratochvila
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|summary=In my kitchen there's a battered (in both senses This is probably one of the word) copy of ''Real Fast Food'', Nigel Slatermost unusual baking books I's first bookve encountered. Twenty one years later heIt's revisited built around 99 recipes for breads, brioches and pastries but the recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed in the idea twentieth and given us ''Eat: The Little Book of Fast Food''early twenty-first centuries. Now itWe start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's 'small' as any book containing over six hundred ideas for dinners (complete with lots of excellent photographs by Jonathan Lovekinnothing extravagant or indulgent) can be small - and the food is fast in the sense that you're talking about a maximum of an houringredients, although occasionally where the cooking takes longerauthor is particular. I'm glad You might not have realised that we're moving away from different salts can change the flavour and sensation on the idea tongue 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 onefinished product but, apparently, they do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007526156</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Hollywood1398508632|title=Paul Hollywood's Bread: How to make great breads into even greater mealsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde
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|genre=CookeryLifestyle|summary=It had been on the cards for a while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a happy accident which started me watching Paul Hollywood's television series about bread world where the normal sores had been exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and baking - and it quickly became compulsive viewinga pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. We were predisposed She had electricity which allowed her to the basic idea as it's many years since we last bought run a loaffridge, but we've always used freezer and dehydrator. She had a breadcar -makerand fuel. The results have been good and far better than anything you could buy anywhere but an artisan bakeryMost importantly, but there are limitations as to what you can make. I she had shelter: this was tempted not a plan to see what else we could achieve and whilst the television series didn't promise that it would be ''easy'' it did leave me with confidence that we could do ''betterlive''wild just to live off its produce. Buying the book was the next step.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408840693</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635864674|authortitle=Chloe Coker Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and Jane Montgomery More|titleauthor=The Vegetarian PantryJoy Howard
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|summary=Chloe Coker and Jane Montgomery aren't strict vegetarians, but they are ''passionate about fresh, healthy, seasonal, meatThink of it as no-free cooking.'' A shared frustration about being unable 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 eaterswhining dining. Reassuringly they're not out to convert anyone - just to give some inspiration, particularly to people who haven't tried this type of food before. Some recipes are suitable for vegans (or can be easily adapted) and they're clearly marked, as are those suitable for people with a gluten intolerance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184975344X</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Miles0241480442|title=CheesecakeHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5
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|summary=Emotionally, I have am a weakness for cheesecakevegan. Mentally, the genuine item rather than the over-sweet lookalikes found in some supermarketsI am a vegan. I love that unctuous richness read [[How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and was appalled by the slightly tart taste on the tongueway in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, Iam not a vegan. It worked for a while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a perfect storm of those events which you hope don'm less keen on what they deliver t occur too often in terms of calories, but that simply means that cheesecake has your lifetime tempted me back to be an occasional treat animal- and the best that there is aroundbased protein. So, It wasn''Cheesecake'' by Hannah Miles 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 going to press all the right buttons. Hannah reached the final ease of Masterchef being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in 2007, so she knows a thing or two about foodfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849753520</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tori Finch1529418100|title=A Perfect Day for a PicnicBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker
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|genre=CookeryShort Stories|summary=There are strange reasons why books appeal I'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a fan of Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the temptation to you. With read ''Bruno'A Perfect Day for a Picnics Challenge'' my immediate reaction was it would be lovely hard to have the ''weatherresist and I'm rather glad that I didn', never mind the foodt even try. Then I had a look at For those new to the spine of the book (I know - Iseries, there'm sad) and it looked just like one of those expensive linen glass cloths - s an excellent introduction that will tell you know, the ones all you have need to know about who''iron'' s who and it brought back such memories of childhood picnics that I had the background to see what was on offerwhy Bruno is in St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849753539</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
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|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World
|author=Henry Mance
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|genre=Politics and Society
|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Margaret Powell0008333173|title=The Downstairs CookbookHungry: Recipes From A 1920s Household CookMemoir of Wanting More|author=Grace Dent|rating=45|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=Margaret Powell began her life in service as a housemaid, but she had an interest in cooking (her mother wouldnI't allow her to learn at home as food was too precious to waste) and by talking to cooks, watching what they did and making notes she eventually rose to be cook in m always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the grand houses judges on the nineteen twenties. ''The Downstairs CookbookMasterchef'' is her collection of the recipes which she used, or which were current at the time. But itYou know that you's more than that. Think of it as being rather like a visit re going to a good cookery school where get an honest opinion from someone whom you'd collect all those hints and tips which make recipes ''work'' and the anecdotes about life in a professional kitchen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230767834</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Danaan Elderhill|title=The Magic Book sense does real food rather than fine dining most of Cookery|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and Religion|summary=Back in the seventeenth century in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia there was a coven of witchestime. As was common at You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that time witches were hunted and they had to hide their beliefsgood food in front of her. The Friends of Euphrosyne, as they called themselves, turned to this deity (sheI's one of ve often wondered about the woman behind the three graces media image and there to remind us to have fun) in their time ''Hungry: A Memoir of need Wanting More'' is a stunning read which will make you laugh and developed rituals which could be assimilated into social gatherings, allowing them to hide break your heart in plain sightequal measures. Their book - The Magic Book of Cookery - vanished along with the coven when they were discovered but Danaan Elderhill wants us to benefit from its ancient wisdom - and its fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0092BX6O0</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio CaluccioTee_Gross|title=A Recipe for LifeThis Cookbook is Gross|author=Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez
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|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Antonio Carluccio The misuse of language is a name you know well if you've any interest in food and particularly Italian foodmodern disease. He's well known Too many times something is described as a cookawesome or stupendous, restaurateur, deli owner, television personality but were you truly awed by it? Or stupefied? People just seem to pluck words out of the ether and authorpretend that they are the correct ones. In everything he's done he's concentrated on Are the flavour of the food - this isn't the man to turn to if you're interested recipes in fine dining as thereSusanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez's a lack of frills and ostentation - and he has his own phrase to describe his vision. 'Mof mof' stands for 'maximum of flavour and minimum of fussThis Cookbook is Gross'truly gross? For once the language is not overplayed. He's a man after my own heart These recipes may taste nice, but when I thought about it I realised that I knew little, beyond the occasional news itemin appearance, of Carluccio the man. His autobiography came at just the right timethey are absolutely vile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1742703925</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Prue Leith1848993609|title=RelishGood Mood Food: My Life on a PlateUnlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well|author=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona
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|summary=I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked the idea of a series of recipes which would make me feel happy. For once this isn't a case of 'Everyone'' knows that when you chop onionsif it sounds too good to be true, you cry, but have you ever wondered it probably is'- it'exactly'' why this happens? More to the point have you ever considered what you might be able to do so that you don't need to look like s a snivelling wreck every time you make kedgeree? Life is littered with such conundrums (along with case of getting something which could change your life for the oldbetter -wives'for good -tale solutions) but there seem to be more of them in the kitchen rather than elsewhere. Robert L Wolke has a column in the ''Washington'' ''Post'' in which he debunks misconceptions and answers questions with logic, science and a healthy dose of common sensequick fix. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393341658</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Webb0241367875|title=Food BritanniaCompletely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook|author=Felicity Cloake|rating=45
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|summary=IIt've always suspected that British food gained its dreadful reputation after s a novel concept for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found to do a particular job - the end job of World War II. Rationing lasted for many years and delivering the best meal, the sort ''Completely Perfect'' meal of food which you could buy in the average hotel or restaurant was pretty poortitle. An image like that sticks: we might have Stilton cheese, Scottish raspberries, Welsh lamb and a host Think of other wonderful foodstuffs but still we are thought it as the equivalent of as a comparison site for when you want to renew the people who eat car insurance and then taking the food best elements out of a post-war boarding houseeach recipe to make perfection. Andrew Webb is a There's nothing cutting edge here: it's the sort of food journalist which we've been eating for decades and photographer - and heprobably will be for decades to come. There's set out to prove a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' and providing that thereyou don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at table, it's a wealth of regional food, traditional recipes and passionate producers just waiting meal which is unlikely to be founddo other than go down well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946232</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucie CashKay Vintage|title=Fairytale FoodVintage Kitchenalia|author=Emma Kay
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|summary=Are you looking for a gift for someone who enjoys cooking and who has an interest in fairy tales? If so, this book could well be your perfect answer. It has over sixty recipes - none of them at all complex Over the half- century and theymore that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I're all associated with favourite fairy talesve seen food preparation move from being just something you did to an obsession akin to a religion. Instead My first kitchen had nothing in the way of the usual carefullyluxury -primped pictures of the finished dishes it was there are lavish illustrations by Yelena Bryksenkova of scenes from the tales to make meals as nutritiously and I didneconomically as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quite't find a double page spread which didn't have some entertaining embellishment. Itstate of the art, but it's also equipped to a bonus that there's high standard and is a gentle humour pleasure to work in . But what of all the illustrationsequipment which went before, as in this note from Goldilocks:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848093578</amazonuk>which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the history.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian KeyesJopson_Science|title=Saved by CakeThe Science of Food: Over 80 Ways to Bake Yourself HappyAn exploration of what we eat and how we cook|author=Marty Jopson
|rating=4
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|summary=Right now I've always believed that if you are probably thinking understood ''Marian Keyes? She writes chick-lit doesnwhy't she? What's she doing writing something worked in a cookbook?particular way it was very easy to remember ''how'' it worked and what you needed to do. YouThe food we eat is no exception to this rule and ''The One Show''ll quite probably also be looking at her resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in the kitchen - and thinking that she doesn't look as though she eats a lot he covers everything from the type of knives we use through to the food of the output eitherfuture. WellBest of all, there's a bit of he does it in language that even a story behind this book..science illiterate like me can understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071815889X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie OliverHayward New|title=JamieJuan Altamiras's Great Britain|rating=3.5|genre=Cookery|summary=The Royal Wedding in 2011 and 2012's Diamond Jubilee and Olympic Games mean that ''anything'' which can be adorned with a Union Jack will be. Barbour do waxed Union Jack dog coats, so it should come as no surprise that Jamie Oliver is here with a large plate of good old roast beef in front of said flag. It's a splendidly chunky book and beautifully presented. Flick the book open at any page and you're likely to find a double-page spread New Art of pictures (shooting on the country estate, making traditional cakes, foraging for food... you get the picture) or a recipe accompanied by a full-page photograph of the end product.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718156811</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nigella Lawson|title=Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Nigella Lawson's latest offering is subtitled 'recipes from the heart of home', which is a very vague title whose significance (undoubtedly clear to those who watch the TV versions) I fail to decode. All cooking is done in the kitchen after all. But I suppose coming up with interesting titles for general collections of recipes is not that easy, so I'll leave it at that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184604</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clarissa Dickson Wright|title=A History of English Food|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Writing a history of English food, and to some extent drink, must be a daunting task, but as an experienced TV presenter (as one of the ''Two Fat Ladies'' with the late Jennifer Paterson) and as one who was born in the post-war rationing world in 1947, Clarissa Dickson Wright is well placed to do so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211856</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall|title=River Cottage Veg Every Day!|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall wants to make it clear that ''River Cottage: Veg Every Day!'' is a ''vegetable'' cookbook and that it's up to the reader to determine whether or not it's a ''vegetarian'' cookbook. He makes it quite clear that he's not a vegetarian and has no intention of becoming one, but for the four months which it took to film the series of which this is the book he didn't touch a scrap of meat or fish. It's a new Hugh, but the slimmed-down version is the result of a conscious decision before filming began rather than the consequences of the change of diet. The new hairstyle has yet to be explained…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408812126</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Matt Armendariz|title=On A Stick!|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=ThereSpanish Friar's something rather fun about eating your food off a stick. The first thing that springs to my mind is candy floss (I never buy it when it's in a bag...sacrilegious!) but if you think about it there are lots of things you can eat off a stick, both savoury and sweet. And the author of this cookery book would have you believe that everything tastes better when it's eaten off a stick!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744890</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKitchen Notebook|author=Jojo Tulloh|title=East End Paradise: Kitchen Garden Cooking In The CityVicky Hayward
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|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''. It's easy to think that growing your own fruit contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables is only possible if you live in the country and have desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a large gardengrand scale, but Jojo Tulloh prove that you can live in a cityat those with more modest budgets, have an allotment – in her case who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a patch stress on the careful combination of East London waste ground – flavours and put good food on the family's tablearomas. Even if you don't have Spices are used conservatively and the luxury bluntness of an allotment (and in some areas the waiting list Moorish cooking is longer than most people can contemplate) there are still ways that almost everyone can produce some eschewed in favour of their something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own food. You might wonder why this mattersregion, Aragon, but anything you grow yourself is going to be fresher when you eat it the Iberian court and taste far better than anything you pick up at the supermarketNew World.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523590</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles LambFederman_Fasting|title=Great Fasting and Feasting - The Life of Visionary Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other EssaysWriter Patience Gray|author=Adam Federman
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|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: 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 ''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pigalmost forgotten culinary star.'' is a collection of Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other food-related essays from the early 19th centurywriters, with has had a humorous bentlasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and regional cuisines. TheyGray're but a few pages each s prescience was unrivalled: She wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement-- a light read to bring a smile to your face, then on from foraging to eating locally--long before it became part of the next little foodie treatcultural mainstream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr A W ChaseMordechai_Simple|title=Great FoodSimple Fare: Buffalo Cake Spring and Indian PuddingSummer|author=Karen Mordechai
|rating=4
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|summary=Think 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 slimyoung 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, American Mrs Beeton (her cookbook, not her) 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've got make is a rough idea compilation of the premise of ''Buffalo Cake and Indian Pudding''way you have lived. It includes recipes for such treats as Minnesota corn bread Thinking back over the food we eat, popcorn pudding, pumpkin pie that is so true and pork cake. The recipes aren't for the whole picturefirst time, though. Dr Alvin Wood Chase was I looked on a travelling salesman as well recipe book as an author, so being blessed with the gift elegant way of the gab, he peppers his recipes with anecdotes and comments to amuse and entertain the readerseeing someone else's history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241950996</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth DavidMiller_Five|title=Great Food: A Taste of the Sun|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=There are three people Five Ways to whom I owe my ability to put imaginative and tasty food on the table: [[:Category:Nigel Slater|Nigel Slater]] for taking away the mystique, [[:Category:Jane Grigson|Jane Grigson]] for teaching me that food was deeply interesting Cook Asparagus (and [[Other Recipes):Category:Elizabeth David|Elizabeth David]] just for being who she was. Initially I found her a little daunting but once I realised that cookery books were about far more than recipes I appreciated her true worth. In the wonderful ''Great Food'' series Penguin have given us a selection of her writing Art and a demonstration Practice of how she changed the way that post-war Britain thought about food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951089</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaking Dinner|author=Max Clark and Susan Spaull|title=Leith's Meat BiblePeter Miller
|rating=5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=IWhen you've been cooking beef producing meals for almost around about half a century and I thought the chances are that I was making , like me, you have a pretty good job fairly regular set of itmenus which you produce. Hopefully, but last weekend I cooked the best beef I have ever done and it was down to 'Leiths not quite in the 's Meat Biblefishcakes! Goodness is it Friday already?'realm but you probably have something in your culinary locker for every occasion. It wasn't because I had suddenly found takes a recipe very good book to make you settle down and actually read what it has to top all the others – offer and it was because this book doesn't just tell s an exceptional one where you end up with lots of dog-eared pages for recipes which you ''what'' re going to do; it tells you whytry. Because of this I made some fairly minor adjustments The inspiration to read ''Five Ways to how Cook Asparagus'' was simple and serendipitous - I cooked 'd just come home with the beef – and first of the season's English asparagus when the book arrived in the results were amazingpost. ItI couldn't ''not's the ultimate meat cookbook and unless you're vegetarian or vegan you should have one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590478</amazonuk>a look, now could I?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregg WallaceKunin_Good|title=Gregg's Favourite PuddingsGood Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best|author=Lily Kunin
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|summary=Anyone I've got to begin by outlining a bias: I don't like food fads. There's a very good reason for avoiding gluten if you are coeliac, but if it's simply a food choice then you make life more difficult for people who has watched Gregg Wallace on ''MasterChefmust'' avoid gluten. The same point applies to a lot of other food 'intolerances'. I believe in eating a balanced diet but will be aware of his passion (and happily admit that is I have my own no-go areas: I don't eat processed sugars because they'notre empty calories and after a couple of weeks without them I discovered that I don'' putting it too strongly) for puddingst actually like the taste. HeI don's never lost his sweet tooth t touch caffeine and, unlike many men, is not afraid haven't done so since I discovered what it did to admit itmy blood pressure. He takes Having said all this, I'm quite happy to read books which ''do'' advocate avoiding certain food groups, simply because (a child-like delight ) there ''might'' be something in the final course it and has been known (b) people who've had to go against the professional judge if something particularly appeals inventive to him: he's salvaged the pride of many create a contestant varied diet with his restricted ingredients often come up with some excellent recipes. And that was how I came to ''yummyGood Clean Food''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062143X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Del ConteYang_Food|title=Risotto with NettlesA Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple Steps|author=Yuchi Yang
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|summary=IYuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and she's allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure ''without''m sure taking medication, although she does stress that there if you ''are'' taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctor. You can reduce your BP in six steps, which are many good reasons for buying the Guardian of actually a Saturday but lot simpler than they sound. Does it work? Yes, it does: I always enjoy Yotam Ottolenghi's New Vegetarian column. ve been eating this way for more than two years and I'm not a vegetarian (nor, indeed, is Ottolenghi) but he has ve gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings to getting a way with vegetables whether smile when they're to be served on their own or as an accompaniment which is fresh, full of flavour taken and exciting. The background to the food being told that my BP is in Israel perfectly normal - and Palestine with the regionthat's rich supply without taking medication of vegetables, pulses and grainsany sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933684</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Xanthe MiltonBacchia_Italian|title=Eat Me!: The Stupendous, Self-raising World of Cupcakes and Bakes According to Cookie Girl|rating=5|genre=Cookery|summary=What a stunning book this is. The inside, that is. I was almoststunned in a less positive way by the brightness of the front cover.I don't like pink at the best of times, and this book is very, verypink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091925118</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewItalian Street Food|author=Michael Booth|title=Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About CookingPaola Bacchia
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|summary=Japanese Books about Italian food has are everywhere, with recipes for pizza, pasta dishes and all the usual suspects. In a tendency winter which seems to sound a bit freakish or even controversial. Raw fish? Octopus ice cream? Whale meat? Yet it is slowly infiltrating be starting hard all too early what I wanted was sunshine - and the sort of food which you find on the UK with sushi conveyor belt restaurants popping up everywhere Italian streets and noodle in those bars offering Westernised bowls of steaming noodleswhich only the locals know about. In this book Michael Booth takes his wife and two young children to experience It's the sort of food which you eat on the real thingmove, travelling across or leaning against the whole of Japan tasting an enormous range of foods bar - tables and learning about their historychairs don't usually come into the equation. For the most part, how the foods have been produced it doesn't aspire to being ''healthy'' - frying plays a larger part than it does in a virtuous diet and are cooked it is a little short on fruit and eaten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516446</amazonuk>veg - but we can all be a bit naughty on occasions, can't we?
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