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<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Del Mar Sacasa and Tara Striano1635866847|title=Winter Cocktails: Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Cocktail Party SnacksTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=CookeryLifestyle|summary=I nearly didnIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''t read feel that this is the book - for you. Before I started reading ''cocktailsThe Lavender Companion'' are not something which appear in our house - but fortunately , I had visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a look at slice of chocolate cake on the subtitle homepage. I don't eat cakes and realised desserts - but I wanted that mulled ciders, hot toddies, punches and pitchers appealed a great deal morecake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm never averse avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to something warm and reviving after being out make a mess of it. Notes in the winter coldmargins are sanctioned. Even better is You get to fold down the fact corners of pages. You suspect that it all comes in smears of butter would not be a well-presented, hardback problem. I ''loved'' this book which will stand a lot of duty in the kitchenalready. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746419</amazonuk>
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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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|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 Cake: Over 80 Ways to Bake Yourself Happy|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Right now you are probably thinking 'Marian Keyes? She writes chick-lit doesn't she? What's she doing writing a cookbook?' You'll quite probably also be looking at her and thinking that she doesn't look as though she eats a lot of the output either. Well, there's a bit of a story behind this book...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071815889X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jamie Oliver|title=Jamie'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 Science 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 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=KitchenFood: 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 An exploration 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, what we eat 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>}} {{newreviewhow we cook|author=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall|title=River Cottage Veg Every Day!Marty Jopson
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|summary=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall wants to make it clear I've always believed that if you understood ''River Cottage: Veg Every Day!why'' is something worked in a particular way it was very easy to remember ''vegetablehow'' cookbook it worked and that it's up what you needed to the reader do. The food we eat is no exception to determine whether or not itthis rule and 's a 'The One Show'vegetarian'' cookbook. He makes it quite clear that resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in the kitchen - and he's not a vegetarian and has no intention covers everything from the type of becoming one, but for the four months which it took knives we use through to film the series food of which this is the book he didn't touch a scrap of meat or fishfuture. It's a new HughBest of all, but the slimmed-down version is the result of he does it in language that even a conscious decision before filming began rather than the consequences of the change of dietscience illiterate like me can understand. The new hairstyle has yet to be explained…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408812126</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt ArmendarizHayward New|title=On Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Stick!Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook|author=Vicky Hayward
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|summary=ThereIn 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''s something rather fun about eating your food off a stick. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The first thing that springs style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford to my mind is candy floss (I never buy it when it's in cook on a baggrand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers...sacrilegious!) but if you think about it Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there are lots is a stress on the careful combination of things you can eat off a stick, both savoury flavours and sweetaromas. And Spices are used conservatively and the author bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of this cookery book would have you believe that everything tastes better when itsomething much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras's eaten off a stick!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744890</amazonuk>own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jojo TullohFederman_Fasting|title=East End Paradise: Kitchen Garden Cooking In Fasting and Feasting - The CityLife of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray|author=Adam Federman
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|summary=It's easy to think that growing your own fruit and vegetables is only possible if you live For more than thirty years, Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed--lived in the country and have a large gardenremote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, but Jojo Tulloh prove that you can live in or a citytelephone, grew much of her own food, have an allotment – 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 case friends, yet her growing reputation brought a patch steady stream of East London waste ground – international visitors to her door. This simple and put good isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great food on 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 familyBBC described her as an ''s tablealmost forgotten culinary star. Even if you don't have ' Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other food writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the luxury of an allotment (way we view and in some areas the waiting list is longer than most people can contemplate) there are still ways that almost everyone can produce some of their own celebrate good foodand regional cuisines. You might wonder why this matters, but anything you grow yourself is going Gray's prescience was unrivalled: She wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement--from foraging to be fresher when you eat eating locally--long before it and taste far better than anything you pick up at became part of the supermarketcultural mainstream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523590</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles LambMordechai_Simple|title=Great FoodSimple Fare: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig Spring and Other EssaysSummer|author=Karen Mordechai
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|summary=Karen Mordechai''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' is s family history has its roots in the Jerusalem of the 1950s when people from around the globe were coming together in a collection young country and forming their own way of food-related essays from living. When the family then emigrated to the early 19th centuryUnited States they brought this way of cooking with them, along with a humorous bentthe tradition of sharing and enjoying food. They Mordechai believes that food're but a few pages each - a light read s ability to bring people together is unparalleled and that the food you make is a smile to your facecompilation of the way you have lived. Thinking back over the food we eat, that is so true and for the first time, then I looked on to the next little foodie treata recipe book as an elegant way of seeing someone else's history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr A W ChaseMiller_Five|title=Great FoodFive Ways to Cook Asparagus (and Other Recipes): Buffalo Cake the Art and Indian PuddingPractice of Making Dinner|author=Peter Miller|rating=45
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|summary=Think of When you've been producing meals for around about half a slimcentury the chances are that, American Mrs Beeton (her cookbooklike me, not her) and you've got have a rough idea fairly regular set of menus which you produce. Hopefully, it's not quite in the premise of 'fishcakes! Goodness is it Friday already?'Buffalo Cake 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 Indian Puddingactually 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. It includes recipes for such treats as Minnesota corn bread, popcorn pudding, pumpkin pie and pork cake. The recipes areninspiration to read ''Five Ways to Cook Asparagus''t the whole picture, though. Dr Alvin Wood Chase was a travelling salesman as well as an author, so being blessed simple and serendipitous - I'd just come home with the gift first of the gab, he peppers his recipes with anecdotes and comments to amuse and entertain season's English asparagus when the book arrived in the readerpost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241950996</amazonuk> I couldn't ''not'' have a look, now could I?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth DavidKunin_Good|title=Great Good Clean Food: A Taste of the SunPlant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best|author=Lily Kunin
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|summary=There are three people I've got to whom begin by outlining a bias: I owe my ability to put imaginative and tasty don't like food on the table: [[:Category:Nigel Slater|Nigel Slater]] fads. There's a very good reason for taking away the mystiqueavoiding gluten if you are coeliac, [[:Category:Jane Grigson|Jane Grigson]] for teaching me that but if it's simply a food was deeply interesting and [[:Category:Elizabeth David|Elizabeth David]] just choice then you make life more difficult for being people who she was''must'' avoid gluten. The same point applies to a lot of other food 'intolerances'. Initially I found her believe in eating a little daunting balanced diet but once will happily admit that I realised that cookery books were about far more than recipes have my own no-go areas: I appreciated her true worth. In the wonderful don't eat processed sugars because they'Great Food'' series Penguin have given us a selection of her writing re empty calories and after a demonstration couple of how she changed weeks without them I discovered that I don't actually like the way that post-war Britain thought about foodtaste.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951089</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Max Clark and Susan Spaull|title=Leith's Meat Bible|rating=5|genre=Cookery|summary= Idon've been cooking beef for almost half a century t touch caffeine and haven't done so since I thought that I was making a pretty good job of discovered what itdid to my blood pressure. Having said all this, but last weekend I cooked the best beef I have ever done and it was down 'm quite happy to read books which 'Leith's Meat Bibledo'. It wasn't advocate avoiding certain food groups, simply because I had suddenly found (a recipe to top all the others – it was because this book doesn) there 't just tell you 'might'what'be something in it and (b) people who' ve had to the inventive to do; it tells you whycreate a varied diet with restricted ingredients often come up with some excellent recipes. Because of this And that was how I made some fairly minor adjustments came to how I cooked the beef – and the results were amazing. It's the ultimate meat cookbook and unless you're vegetarian or vegan you should have oneGood Clean Food''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590478</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregg WallaceYang_Food|title=Gregg's Favourite PuddingsA Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple Steps|author=Yuchi Yang
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|summary=Anyone who Yuchi Yang has watched Gregg Wallace on 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 ''MasterChefwithout'' will be aware of his passion (and taking medication, although she does stress that is if you ''are'not'taking medication you shouldn' putting it too strongly) for puddingst stop doing so without consulting your doctor. You can reduce your BP in six steps, which are actually a lot simpler than they sound. HeDoes it work? Yes, it does: I's never lost his sweet tooth ve been eating this way for more than two years and, unlike many men, is not afraid I've gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings to admit it. He takes getting a childsmile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal -like delight in the final course and has been known to go against the professional judge if something particularly appeals to him: hethat's salvaged the pride without taking medication of many a contestant with his ''yummy''any sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062143X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Del ConteBacchia_Italian|title=Risotto with NettlesItalian Street Food|author=Paola Bacchia
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|summary=What a stunning book this is. The insideBooks about Italian food are everywhere, with recipes for pizza, that ispasta dishes and all the usual suspects. In a winter which seems to be starting hard all too early what I wanted was almoststunned sunshine - and the sort of food which you find on the Italian streets and in a less positive way by those bars which only the locals know about. It's the brightness sort of food which you eat on the front cover.I move, or leaning against the bar - tables and chairs don't like pink at usually come into the equation. For the best of timesmost part, it doesn't aspire to being ''healthy'' - frying plays a larger part than it does in a virtuous diet and this book it is verya little short on fruit and veg - but we can all be a bit naughty on occasions, verypink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091925118</amazonuk>can't we?
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