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When you've been producing meals for around about half a century the chances are that, like me, you have a fairly regular set of menus which you produce. Hopefully it's not quite in the 'fishcakes! Goodness is it Friday already?' realm but you probably have something in your culinary locker 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 with lots of dog-eared pages for recipes which you're going to try. The inspiration to read ''Five Ways to Cook Asparagus'' was simple and serendipitous - I'd just come home with the first of the season's English asparagus when the book arrived in the post. I couldn't ''not'' have a look, now could I? [[Five Ways to Cook Asparagus (and Other Recipes): the Art and Practice of Making Dinner by Peter Miller|Full Review]]
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===[[Good Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best by Lily Kunin]]===
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I've got to begin by outlining a bias: I don't like food fads. There's 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 ''must'' avoid gluten. The same point applies to a lot of other food 'intolerances'. 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 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 my blood pressure. Having said all this, I'm quite happy to read books which ''do'' advocate avoiding certain food groups, simply because (a) there ''might'' be something in it and (b) people who've had to the inventive to create a varied diet with restricted ingredients often come up with some excellent recipes. And that was how I came to ''Good Clean Food''. [[Good Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best by Lily Kunin|Full Review]]
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