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[[Category:New Reviews|Cookery]]==Cookery==__NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucie Cash1454955546|title=Fairytale FoodSugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=3.5|genre=CookeryLifestyle|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 - and they're all associated with favourite fairy tales. Instead of the usual carefully-primped pictures of the finished dishes there are lavish illustrations by Yelena Bryksenkova of scenes from the tales and I didn'This isn't find a double page spread which didn't have some entertaining embellishmentdiet book. ItThe last thing anyone needs is another diet book.'s also a bonus that there's a gentle humour in the illustrations, as in this note from Goldilocks:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848093578</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Marian Keyes|title=Saved by Cake: Over 80 Ways to Bake Yourself Happy|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Right now There was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you are probably thinking 'Marian Keyes? She writes chickthan food with high-lit doesn't she? fat content. Fat was the demon food which was going to elevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. WhatThere's she doing writing a cookbook?' problem, though. You'll quite probably also be looking at her Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the same way as drugs like heroin and thinking cocaine. Does that she doesn't look as though she eats a lot of sound over the output either. top? Well, thereit isn's a bit of a story behind this book..t.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>071815889X</amazonuk>

<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jamie Oliver1635866847|title=Jamie's Great BritainThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=CookeryLifestyle|summary=The Royal Wedding in 2011 and 2012It's Diamond Jubilee and Olympic Games mean strange, the things that make you ''anythingimmediately'' which can be adorned with a Union Jack will befeel that this is the book for you. Barbour do waxed Union Jack dog coatsBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', so it should come as no surprise that Jamie Oliver is here with I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a large plate picture of good old roast beef in front a slice of said flagchocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It(There's a splendidly chunky recipe in the book and beautifully presented. Flick , which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book open at any page and you're likely I was told to find make a double-page spread mess of pictures (shooting on it. Notes in the country estate, making traditional cakes, foraging for foodmargins are sanctioned... you You get to fold down the picture) or corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a recipe accompanied by a full-page photograph of the end productproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718156811</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigella Lawson3791388398|title=KitchenNew European Baking: 99 Recipes from the Heart of the Homefor Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel Kratochvila|rating=4.5

|summary=Nigella LawsonThis is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's latest offering is subtitled 'built around 99 recipes from the heart of home'for breads, which is a very vague title whose significance (undoubtedly clear to those who watch brioches and pastries but the TV versions) I fail to decode. All cooking is done recipes are interwoven with some thought-provoking writing on how bread - and baking - have changed in the kitchen after alltwentieth and early twenty-first centuries. But I suppose coming up We start with interesting titles for general collections of recipes the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the ingredients, where the author is particular. You might not have realised that easydifferent salts can change the flavour and sensation on the tongue of the finished product but, so I'll leave it at thatapparently, they do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184604</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Clarissa Dickson Wright1398508632|title=A History of English FoodThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|genre=HistoryLifestyle|summary=Writing It had been on the cards for a history while but it was the week-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of English eating only wild food. 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 exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and a pandemic. Wilde had a few advantages: the area around her was a known habitat with a variety of terrains. She had electricity which allowed her to some extent drinkrun a fridge, must be freezer and dehydrator. She had a daunting taskcar - and fuel. Most importantly, but as an experienced TV presenter (as one of the she had shelter: this was not a plan to ''Two Fat Ladieslive'' 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 wild just to do solive off its produce.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211856</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall1635864674|title=River Cottage Veg Every Day!Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy Howard

|summary=Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall wants to make it clear that ''River Cottage: Veg Every Day!'' is a ''vegetable'' cookbook and that Think of it's up to the reader to determine whether or not it's a ''vegetarian'' cookbookas no-whining dining. 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=ThereWe know it's something a fruit rather fun about eating your food off than a stick. The first thing vegetable but the fact that springs so many people get confused just goes to my mind show how versatile the tomato is candy floss (I never buy it when it's in a bag...sacrilegious!) but if you think about it Then there are lots of things you can eat off a stickall the different types, both savoury not to mention the cultivars - and sweetyou begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. And I'd argue with her there - I have no affection for the author of this cookery book would have ones you believe find in the supermarket ''next'' to the ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the ones that everything tastes better when ithave obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I'd prefer a tin of tomatoes to those - and Howard makes good use of these. She's eaten off a stick!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744890</amazonuk>not at all precious if you get the taste.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jojo Tulloh0241480442|title=East End ParadiseHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Kitchen Garden Vegan Cooking In The CityMeets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5

|summary=It's easy to think that growing your own fruit and vegetables is only possible if you live in the country and have Emotionally, I am a large gardenvegan. Mentally, but Jojo Tulloh prove that you can live in I am a city, have an allotment – vegan. I read [[How to Love Animals in her case a patch of East London waste ground – Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] and put good was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in our search for (preferably cheap) food on the family's table. Even if Practically, I am 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't have the luxury of an allotment (and occur too often in some areas your lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. It wasn't the waiting list is longer than most people can contemplate) there are still ways taste - I know that almost everyone I can produce some of their own get plant-based food. You might wonder why this matters, but that tastes just as good as anything you grow yourself is going plundered from the animal kingdom - it was the ease of being able to be fresher get sufficient protein when you eat it and taste far better than anything you pick up at the supermarketmeals were often snatched in a few spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523590</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles Lamb1529418100|title=Great Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig Bruno's Challenge and Other EssaysDordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker

|genre=CookeryShort Stories|summary=I''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' is m not usually a collection fan of foodshort stories -related essays from I find it all too easy to put the early 19th century, with a humorous bent. They're book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I am a few pages each - a light read to bring a smile to your face, then on to the next little foodie treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dr A W Chase|title=Great Food: Buffalo Cake and Indian Pudding|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Think fan of a slim, American Mrs Beeton (her cookbook, not her) and youMartin Walker's [[Martin Walker've got a rough idea of s Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the premise of temptation to read ''Bruno'Buffalo Cake and Indian Puddings Challenge''. It includes recipes for such treats as Minnesota corn bread, popcorn pudding, pumpkin pie was hard to resist and pork cake. The recipes arenI'm rather glad that I didn't even try. For those new to the whole pictureseries, though. Dr Alvin Wood Chase was a travelling salesman as well as there's an author, so being blessed with the gift of the gab, he peppers his recipes with anecdotes and comments excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to amuse know about who's who and entertain the readerbackground to why Bruno is in St Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241950996</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Elizabeth David|title=Great Food: A Taste of the Sun|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=There I was going to argue. I mean, cows are three people to whom for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I owe much prefer my ability to put imaginative and tasty food on elephants in the table: [[:Category:Nigel Slater|Nigel Slater]] for taking away the mystique, [[:Category:Jane Grigson|Jane Grigson]] for teaching me wild but then I realised that food I was deeply interesting and [[:Category:Elizabeth David|Elizabeth David]] just quibbling for being who she wasthe sake of it. Initially I found her a little daunting but once I realised Essentially that cookery books were about far more than recipes quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I appreciated her true worthconsider myself an animal lover. In If I had to choose between the wonderful ''Great Food'' series Penguin have given us a selection company of her writing humans and a demonstration the company of how she changed animals, I would probably choose the way animals. I insisted that I read this 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 post-war Britain thought about foodmaking the decision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951089</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Max Clark and Susan Spaull0008333173|title=Leith's Meat BibleHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace Dent

|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=I've been cooking beef for almost half a century and I thought that I was making a pretty good job m always relieved when Grace Dent is one of it, but last weekend I cooked the best beef I have ever done and it was down to judges on ''LeithMasterchef's Meat Bible'. It wasn't because I had suddenly found a recipe to top all the others – it was because this book doesn't just tell You know that you ''what'' re going to do; it tells get an honest opinion from someone whom you whysense does real food rather than fine dining most of the time. Because You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of this I made some fairly minor adjustments to how I cooked the beef – and the results were amazingher. ItI's ve often wondered about the ultimate meat cookbook woman behind the media image and unless you're vegetarian or vegan you should have one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590478</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gregg Wallace|title=Gregg's Favourite Puddings|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Anyone who has watched Gregg Wallace on ''MasterChef'' will be aware Hungry: A Memoir of his passion (and that is Wanting More''not'' putting it too strongly) for puddings. He's never lost his sweet tooth and, unlike many men, is not afraid to admit it. He takes a child-like delight stunning read which will make you laugh and break your heart in the final course and has been known to go against the professional judge if something particularly appeals to him: he's salvaged the pride of many a contestant with his ''yummy''equal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062143X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anna Del ConteTee_Gross|title=Risotto with NettlesThis Cookbook is Gross|author=Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez

|genre=AutobiographyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= The misuse of language is a modern disease. Too many times something is described as awesome or stupendous, but were you truly awed by it? Or stupefied? People who just seem to pluck words out of the ether and pretend that they are serious about food will know the name of Anna Del Contecorrect ones. She's a serious writer about Italian food but not someone who has courted fame via Are the television screen. You'll have met her recipes in places like Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez'Sainsburys 's MagazineThis Cookbook is Gross' or read some of her brilliant writing about truly gross? For once the food of her native Italylanguage is not overplayed. These recipes may taste nice, but in appearance, they are absolutely vile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099505991</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Yotam Ottolenghi1848993609|title=PlentyGood Mood Food: Unlock the Power of Diet to Think and Feel Well|author=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona

|summary=I'm sure that there are many good reasons for buying thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked the Guardian idea of a Saturday but I always enjoy Yotam Ottolenghi's New Vegetarian columnseries of recipes which would make me feel happy. IFor once this isn'm not t a vegetarian (nor, indeed, is Ottolenghi) but he has a way with vegetables whether theycase of 're if it sounds too good to be served on their own or as an accompaniment which is freshtrue, full of flavour and exciting. The background to the food it probably is in Israel and Palestine with the region' - it's rich supply a case of vegetables, pulses and grainsgetting something which could change your life for the better - for good - rather than a quick fix.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933684</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Xanthe Milton0241367875|title=Eat Me!Completely Perfect: The Stupendous, Self-raising World of Cupcakes and Bakes According to Cookie Girl120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook|author=Felicity Cloake

|summary=What It's a novel concept for a stunning cookery book this is. The inside, that is. I was almoststunned in : these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found to do a less positive way by particular job - the brightness job of delivering the front cover.I donbest meal, the ''Completely Perfect''t like pink at meal of the best of times, and this book is very, verypink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091925118</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Booth|title=Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Japanese food has a tendency to sound a bit freakish or even controversial. Raw fish? Octopus ice cream? Whale meat? Yet Think of it is slowly infiltrating as the UK with sushi conveyor belt restaurants popping up everywhere and noodle bars offering Westernised bowls equivalent of steaming noodles. In this book Michael Booth takes his wife and two young children a comparison site for when you want to experience renew the real thing, travelling across car insurance and then taking the whole best elements out of Japan tasting an enormous range of foods and learning about their history, how the foods have been produced and are cooked and eateneach recipe to make perfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099516446</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Cass Titcombe, Patrick Clayton-Malone and Dominic Lake|title=Canteen There's nothing cutting edge here: Great British Food|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=I love it's the sort of food and I can happily read a recipe book which we've been eating for fun decades and probably will be for inspirationdecades to come. ItThere's always good to see what cookery books spawned a reason for that: roast chicken followed by restaurants offer. Just occasionally you spot a combination of foods which you would never have thought of, but which apple crumble ''works brilliantly, but more often I've found myself wondering two things. Who, in their own home, would go to the trouble of creating these dishes ' and, more importantly, who would want to eat them? At the other end of the scale providing that you find don'Canteen: Great British Foodt have a vegetarian or a vegan at table, it' and you heave s a sigh of reliefmeal which is unlikely to do other than go down well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091936322</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Mo Smith|title=The Lazy Cook's Family Favourites|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=These days I get very nervous when I hear about books for 'lazy' cooks, or how to cheat when preparing meals. There's a very simple reason for this: good food, prepared using seasonal ingredients which don't break the budget needs skill and knowledge and neither are the prerogative of the lazy. Mo Smith might like us to think that she's lazy, but take my word for it – she isn't. She might have learned a few tricks for making good food quickly, but she's a woman who knows her onions and all sorts of other food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007826</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Lahey |title=My Bread: the Revolutionary No-work, No-knead Method|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=It's a long time since I did Home Economics at school, but a major part of it was learning methods, which, I was assured would stand me in good stead for the rest of my life. A Victoria sponge was a careful progression of creaming and gently adding flour and eggs. A white sauce had a couple of these methods, but essentially it meant working through a series of instructions until they became second nature. Bread was the worst requiring fermenting, kneading, proving and then more kneading and rising.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0393066304</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Stuart Brown|title=Mma Ramotswe's Cookbook|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=I expect there will be a few people who spot this book on the shelves and wonder who Mma Ramotswe is, but [[:Category:Alexander McCall Smith|Alexander McCall Smith's]] legion of fans certainly won't be amongst them. This cookbook is a nice tie-in to the books, written with a foreword from AMS himself, and full of flavoursome recipes that are spoken of in his series of books about Mma Ramotswe and her Number One Ladies Detective Agency. Illustrated with beautiful photography, lots of quotes from the books, and lots of information about Botswana's rich variety of food it's a wonderful mix of being both a cookery book, a reference book and a companion work to the Mma Ramostwe books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697139X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ani Phyo|title=Ani's Raw Food Desserts|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=I'm always keen to try new desserts. I'm also - in a low-key kind of way - quite a fan of raw-food eating. I read a couple of books on the topic some years ago, and was inspired by the medical anecdotes, and also the 'green' aspects of eating primarily raw food. But most of the raw food recipes I've come across are over complex. So most of the time I made raw juices and smoothies, and eat some salad and fresh fruit and nuts, but my diet is mainly non-raw.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0738213063</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Keith FloydKay Vintage|title=Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=I grew up with television cookery programmes and still have some recipes in my childish handwriting, which begin ''4oz SR fl 2oz marg 2oz C sug…'' as I battled to copy what was on the screen before we retuned to the presenter. Programmes stagnated as the cook spoke to camera and lectured the viewer on how to make sponge cake or a fish dish. Then we were shocked awake. There was a man, quite good-looking in a raffish, slightly dangerous sort of way, who cooked on the deck of a trawler or wherever the whim took him, always glass in hand and who was quite capable of berating the cameraman about how he was doing his job. Like him, or hate him – you could not help but know that he was Keith Floyd, or Floydy to millions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0283071052</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewVintage Kitchenalia|author=Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray |title=The 30-Minute Vegan: 150 Simple and Delectable Recipes for Optimal HealthEmma Kay

|summary=Over the half-century and more that I am 've been preparing meals on a committed vegetarian, who strongly believes in the health benefits of regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did to an obsession akin to a meat free dietreligion. I have My first kitchen had nothing in the past been tempted way of luxury - it was there to go completely veganmake meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quite'' state of the art, but the lure of chocolate it's equipped to a high standard and cheese proved too strongis a pleasure to work in. I But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have no will powernow? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0738213276</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil VickeryJopson_Science|title=Phil Vickery's PuddingsThe Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cook|author=Marty Jopson

|summary=I have 've always believed that if you understood ''why'' something worked in a weakness for puddings particular way it was very easy to remember ''how'' it worked and whilst I wouldnwhat you needed to do. The food we eat is no exception to this rule and ''The One Show't consider buying a ready meal I will happily trawl the aisles for a good desert when I haven't the time resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to spend explain how things work in the kitchen. So, - and he covers everything from the opportunity type of knives we use through to read a book with the sub-title ''every pudding you have ever wanted to make'' was simply too good to pass upfood of the future. I have two favourites when I think Best of puddings – Tarte Tatin and Crème Brulee – so I was keen to see Phil Vickery's recipes for these classicsall, he does it in language that even a science illiterate like me can understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847376835</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer McCann Hayward New|title=Vegan Lunch Box Around the World|rating=3.5|genre=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery|summary=I am a long-time Vegetarian but sometimes flex up (or down, depending on how you look at it) to Vegan since I don: A Spanish Friar't like eggs unless cleverly disguised as a cake, and don't drink milk. Not having either in the house most of the time means cooking some recipes can be a pain, so I was keen to have a look at this book for ideas of what I could use as substitutes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0738213578</amazonuk>}} {{newreviews Kitchen Notebook|author=New Covent Garden Food Co |title=Soup For All OccasionsVicky Hayward

|summary=I love soupIn 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 contained more filling than a drink two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and less time-consuming than it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a meal grand scale, but at those with all more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst the flavour you could ask ingredients were - for. I don't mind good quality canned soup such as Baxter's or New Covent Garden, but I do prefer to make my own, so what could be better than the most part - modestly priced there is a recipe book from New Covent Garden Food Co? It's not a book stress on the careful combination of recipes for flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the soups they sell, but a series bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of recipes something much more subtle and we see influences from their staff which will take youAltamiras' own region, Aragon, as the title says, through all occasionsIberian court and the New World.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752226797</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Mabey Federman_Fasting|title=Wild CookingFasting and Feasting - The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray|author=Adam Federman

|summary=It's become fashionable now to make doFor more than thirty years, to cut back Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed-- even for those who have no need to do solived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. Conspicuous consumption is frowned upon and thriftiness is the new blackShe lived without electricity, modern plumbing, so ''Wild Cooking''or a telephone, previously published in hardback as ''The New English Cassoulet'' is going to appeal to the mood grew much of the moment with its approach of 'busking her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbours in the kitchen' and making dothis economically impoverished region. Some She was fond of it might seem a little extreme – I really can't imagine saying that I will ever slow cook she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a Peking Duck in front steady stream of a fan heater simply because it might as well cook 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 whilst it's heating the room – but I love the idea writers of using a glut to make broad bean hummus, or even of gathering up vegetables which have been left when the field has been harvestedher time: M. F. K.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522969</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Gill Holcombe|title=Fish Pies and French FriesFisher, VegetablesElizabeth David, Meat and Something SweetJulia Child...AffordableSo it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, Everyday Food and Family-friendly Recipes Made Easy|rating=2the BBC described her as an ''almost forgotten culinary star.5|genre=Cookery|summary=Following on from '' Yet her success with [[How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Dietinfluence, with Very Little Money particularly among chefs and Hardly Any Timeother food writers, Even If You Have has had a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... by Gill Holcombe|the book with the atrociously long title]] Gill Holcombe has given us another long title lasting and more easy recipes aimed at busy people who live real lives. The principle is profound effect on the same – few people have unlimited time way we view and/or money and these recipe books go some way towards proving that it is possible to prepare celebrate good food simply and quickly without breaking the Bankregional cuisines. She promises Gray'simple, wholesome and nutritious recipes' – does she deliver?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862334</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Victoria Moore |title=How to Drink|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=A friend who saw me reading this book was moved to ask if I really needed the advice and was quite surprised when I explained that it s prescience was unrivalled: She wrote about what today we would call the whole range of liquid intake Slow Food movement--from the humble glass of warm water (try foraging to eating locally--long before it – it's wonderful first thing in the morning) to rare spirits costing hundreds became part of pounds a bottle. It's completely unpreachy with not a word about how much liquid you should be taking in each day to how few units you should be consuming each week. It's about getting the best (which isn't always the most expensive) and enjoying it – and most importantly, enjoying a drink when that's the drink you wantcultural mainstream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080200</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Delia SmithMordechai_Simple|title=Delia's Complete How To CookSimple Fare: Spring and Summer|author=Karen Mordechai

|summary=At Karen Mordechai's family history has its roots in the end Jerusalem of the last century Delia Smith produced her ''How 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 Cook'' series – three volumes which gave the inexperienced cook United States they brought this way of cooking with them, along with the grounding that they would need to put good tradition of sharing and enjoying food on the table for any occasion. Produced in three volumes ([[DeliaMordechai believes that food's How To Cook - Book 1 by Delia Smith|volumes 1]], [[Delia's How To Cook - Book 2 by Delia Smith|2]] ability to bring people together is unparalleled and [[Delia's How to Cook - Book 3 by Delia Smith|3]]) it always seemed to me to be that the food you make is a reworking compilation of her [[Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith|Complete Cookery Course]] which began life in a similar mannerthe way you have lived. There were some new recipesThinking back over the food we eat, some reworkings of old favourites that is so true and some that were well known. The books were directed at for the novice rather than the experienced cookfirst time, but found favour with both I looked on a recipe book as this was a time when Delia could do no wrongan elegant way of seeing someone else's history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0563539070</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kate ColquhounMiller_Five|title=The Thrifty CookbookFive Ways to Cook Asparagus (and Other Recipes): the Art and Practice of Making Dinner|author=Peter Miller

|summary=Using left-over food can, as Kate Colquhoun says, become something of an obsession. IWhen you've done it been producing meals for years and I do occasionally wonder if I ever eat around about half a meal which doesn't owe something to the day before – or even century the day before chances are that, like me, you have a fairly regular set of menus which you produce. Tonight we're having chicken (from yesterdayHopefully, it's roast) and roast vegetables (not quite in the last of the selection 'fishcakes! Goodness is it Friday already?' realm but you probably have something in the vegetable rack) followed by queen of puddings (the end of the loaf which made chicken sandwiches your culinary locker for lunchboxes, the last of a pot of jam and a couple of eggs)every occasion. The carcass of the chicken made stock It takes a very good book to make you settle down and whilst that was simmering I used the steam actually read what it has to make the custard for ice cream with the last of this weekoffer and it's eggs, the an exceptional one where you end up with lots of the weekenddog-eared pages for recipes which you's cream and some milkre going to try. ItThe inspiration to read ''s all good food, but you do need Five Ways to know what youCook Asparagus''re doing was simple and how you can make best use serendipitous - I'd just come home with the first of whatthe season's English asparagus when the book arrived in the kitchenpost. ThatI couldn's where t ''The Thrifty Cookbooknot'' comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747597049</amazonuk>have a look, now could I?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David PritchardKunin_Good|title=Shooting the CookGood Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best|author=Lily Kunin

|summary=Have you ever been tempted I've got to begin by outlining a bread recipe in bias: I don't like food fads. There's a magazine and thought that very good reason for avoiding gluten if you are coeliac, but if it looked so easy 's simply a food choice then you really ought make life more difficult for people who ''must'' avoid gluten. The same point applies to give it a go? lot of other food 'intolerances'. Have you followed the instructions to the letter – or so you thought – only to find I believe in eating a balanced diet but will happily admit that you produced I have my own no-go areas: I don't eat processed sugars because they're empty calories and after a solid mass fit only for couple of weeks without them I discovered that I don't actually like the birds taste. I don't touch caffeine and even they took haven't done so since I discovered what it as an insult? Me toodid 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'Bread: River Cottage Handbook No 3' was to be my final attempt at bread making something in it and if (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 failed then was how I would have came to make the regular trip to the local artisan baker''Good Clean Food''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759533X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Delia SmithYang_Food|title=Delia's Frugal A FoodGuide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple Steps|author=Yuchi Yang

|summary=Following Yuchi Yang has been a lamentable lack of ability to predict the way that public opinion was heading when registered dietitian for over twenty years and she published [[Delia's How To Cheat At Cooking by Delia Smith|How allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to Cheat at Cooking]] ithelp us to reduce our blood pressure ''without''s good to see taking medication, although she does stress that Deliaif you 's returned to form with an updating and reissue of her original classic bestseller, 'are'Frugal Food'taking medication you shouldn't stop doing so without consulting your doctor. Frugal Food was first published You can reduce your BP in the nineteen seventies when we were having six steps, which are actually a little local financial difficulty and lot simpler than they sound. Does it work? Yes, it caught the mood of the times with its preference does: I've been eating this way for spending time in the kitchen to produce economical meals rather more than spending money two years and I've gone from having 'very worrying' blood pressure readings to buy timegetting a smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034091856X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rick SteinBacchia_Italian|title=Coast to CoastItalian Street Food|author=Paola Bacchia

|summary=You know what you're going to get Books about Italian food are everywhere, with Rick Steinrecipes for pizza, pasta dishes and all the usual suspects. There's In a good reason why he's a television chef, successful restaurateur winter which seems to be starting hard all too early what I wanted was sunshine - and author – he delivers, on the table, sort of food which you find on the screen Italian streets and on in those bars which only the page, locals know about. It's the sort of food which people want to you eaton the move, or leaning against the bar - tables and chairs don't usually come into the equation. In his early days For the most part, it doesn't aspire to being ''healthy'' - frying plays a larger part than it was all about fish but does in his latest book he gives recipes for food from land a virtuous diet and it is a little short on fruit and sea inspired by his travels across the world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846076145</amazonuk>veg - but we can all be a bit naughty on occasions, can't we?

{{newreview|author=Gill Holcombe|title=How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... |rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=These days few people have the luxury of unlimited time in which to prepare meals. Jobs, children, families and life all seem to get in the way. The same is true of money and when you put the two factors together it's easy to see why people are tempted to buy cheap convenience food. It's Move on the table without much effort, requires little in the way of equipment and superficially it looks a lot cheaper than buying all the ingredients to make a family meal. In ''How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy, Balanced Diet…'' gill Holcombe sets out to prove that it's possible to put good food on the table without breaking the Bank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905862156</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Crafts Reviews]]