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|author=Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez
|summary=Last year I had some health problems which caused me to take a hard look at the way that I was eating: within a month or so I was feeling a lot better as a result of the changes and six months on I can't imagine going back to the way that I used to eat. But there was one snag: we seemed to be eating the same few dishes most of the time and I needed fresh inspiration. ''Deliciously Ella'' was the book everyone seemed to be talking about and with a few clicks it was on its way to me from Amazon.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444795007</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Klinec
|title=The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in Iran
|rating=3.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=Jennifer Klinec is the daughter of Hungarian immigrant parents who ran an automotive factory in southwest Ontario. She learned early on to be self-sufficient, even enrolling herself in boarding schools in Switzerland and Dublin. After graduation she moved to London, made a pile as an investment banker, and opened her own cookery school. At age 31, though, she decided to travel to the Iranian city of Yazd to learn Persian dishes. She met Vahid, 25, a military veteran with an engineering background, in a park and he introduced her to his mother for cooking lessons.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088235</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Fiona Pearce
|title=Treat Petite: 42 Sweet and Savoury Miniature Bakes
|rating=4.5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=I know that they're not good for me, but I do love cakes. There's always so ''much'' of them though - and I'm 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 Petite'' it seemed that I just might have found the answer to my prayers. It's a book of forty two recipes for tiny petit fours, little sponge cakes, jewel-like macaroons and gorgeous savouries. They're all mere morsels - just big enough to pop into your mouth.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400982</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Neil Davey
|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate (Bluffer's Guides)
|rating=4
|genre=Cookery
|summary=I've always been a little bit nervous about the ''Bluffer'' series, on the basis that I would be sure to come out with a clever-sounding phrase, only to be found out when someone asked the follow-up question. Better, I thought to stay silent and appear ignorant than to open my mouth and prove myself a fool. But then ''The Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate'' came my way and I couldn't resist - any more than I've ever been able to resist chocolate.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937045</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Rachel Khoo
|title=My Little French Kitchen
|rating=4
|genre=Cookery
|summary=France is Rachel Khoo's adopted country. She lives in Paris and to write this book she travelled to the four corners of the country to sample the local dishes and special ingredients to be found there. It's a look at local markets, shops, villages and towns, farms and homes - and the local customs and quirks to be found in each area. You get over a hundred recipes and plenty of images which set the scene or illustrate the finished dish. In more complicated dishes you even get a series of pictures to help you understand what you're doing - and all the pictures are of excellent quality. It's not just a coffee table book - if you've an interest in French cooking then you're going to get it sauce splattered.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177479</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jackie Alpers
|title=Sprinkles! Recipes and Ideas for Rainbowlicious Desserts
|rating=3
|genre=Cookery
|summary=A friend had taken his granddaughter for a picnic and he'd gone to town on the food. The pudding was decorated but the child seemed distracted:
Child: Grandad, there's an insect in my pudding.
Grandad: No, darling - they're called 'hundreds and thousands' and they're there to make your pudding look pretty.
Child: Grandad, one of my hundreds and thousands is climbing up the side of the bowl...
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746389</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Maria Del Mar Sacasa and Tara Striano
|title=Winter Cocktails: Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, and Cocktail Party Snacks
|rating=3.5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=I nearly didn't read this book - ''cocktails'' are not something which appear in our house - but fortunately I had 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 cold. Even better is the fact that it all comes in a well-presented, hardback book which will stand a lot of duty in the kitchen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746419</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Nigel Slater
|title=Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food
|rating=4.5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=In my kitchen there's a battered (in both senses of the word) copy of ''Real Fast Food'', Nigel Slater's first book. Twenty one years later he's revisited the idea and given us ''Eat: The Little Book 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>
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{{newreview
|author=Paul Hollywood
|title=Paul Hollywood's Bread: How to make great breads into even greater meals
|rating=5
|genre=Cookery
|summary=It was a happy accident which started me watching Paul Hollywood's television series about bread and baking - and it quickly became compulsive viewing. We were predisposed to the basic idea as it's many years since we last bought a loaf, but we've always used a bread-maker. The results have been good and far better than anything you could buy anywhere but an artisan bakery, but there are limitations as to what you can make. I was tempted 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 ''better''. Buying the book was the next step.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408840693</amazonuk>
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