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[[Category:New Reviews|Cookery]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil Davey1454955546|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate (Bluffer's Guides)Sugarless|author=Nicole M Avena|rating=45|genre=CookeryLifestyle|summary=I've always been a little bit nervous about the ''BlufferThis isn'' series, on the basis that I would be sure to come out with t a clever-sounding phrase, only to be found out when someone asked the follow-up questiondiet book. Better, I thought to stay silent and appear ignorant than to open my mouth and prove myself a foolThe last thing anyone needs is another diet book. 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>}}

{{newreview|author=Rachel Khoo|title=My Little French Kitchen|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=France is Rachel Khoo's adopted countryThere was a time, not that long ago, when it was thought that sugary food was better for you than food with high-fat content. She lives in Paris and to write this book she travelled to Fat was the four corners of the country demon food which was going to sample the local dishes elevate your cholesterol and special ingredients to be found therecause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. ItThere's a look at local marketsproblem, shops, villages and towns, farms and homes - though. Sugar is addictive and can hijack your brain in much the local customs same way as drugs like heroin and quirks to be found in each areacocaine. You get Does that sound over a hundred recipes and plenty of images which set the scene or illustrate the finished dish. top? In more complicated dishes you even get a series of pictures to help you understand what youWell, it isn'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 splatteredt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177479</amazonuk>

<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie Alpers1635866847|title=Sprinkles! Recipes The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Ideas for Rainbowlicious DessertsTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=CookeryLifestyle|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, thereIt's an insect in my pudding. Grandad: Nostrange, darling - theythe things that make you 're called 'hundreds and thousandsimmediately' and they're there to make your pudding look prettyfeel that this is the book for you. Child: GrandadBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', one of my hundreds and thousands is climbing up I visited the side of the bowlauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746389<com/amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Maria Del Mar Sacasa website] and Tara Striano|title=Winter Cocktails: Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, and Cocktail Party Snacks|rating=3there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage.5|genre=Cookery|summary= I nearly didndon't read this book - ''cocktails'' are not something which appear in our house eat cakes and desserts - but fortunately I had wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a look at recipe in the subtitle and realised that mulled cidersbook, hot toddies, punches which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and pitchers appealed I was told to make a great deal moremess of it. I'm never averse to something warm and reviving after being out 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel Slater3791388398|title=Eat - The Little Book of Fast FoodNew European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel Kratochvila

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Hollywood1398508632|title=Paul Hollywood's Bread: How to make great breads into even greater mealsThe Wilderness Cure|author=Mo Wilde

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1635864674|authortitle=Chloe Coker Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and Jane Montgomery More|titleauthor=The Vegetarian PantryJoy Howard

|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>}}

{{newreview|author=Will Torrent|title=Patisserie at Home|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=IWe know it've always been in awe of s a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people who can make great desserts - get confused just goes to show how versatile the tomato is. Then there are all the ones which taste amazing AND look stunning on different types, not to mention the platecultivars - and you begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. I'd argue with her there - I have used [[The Roux Brothers on Patisserie by Michel and Albert Roux]] (thatno affection for the ones you find in the supermarket ''next''s Michel Roux senior, by to the way and not his son) but I found ones labelled 'grown for flavour' to distinguish them from the book almost pernickety in some of its requirements and ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I've long wished for d prefer a book which was rather more relaxed tin of tomatoes to those - and aimed at the home cook rather than someone who aspired to be a professional chefHoward makes good use of these. She''Patisserie s not at Home'' seemed to fit all precious if you get the billtaste.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849753547</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hannah Miles0241480442|title=CheesecakeHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Vegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien|rating=4.5

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tori Finch1529418100|title=A Perfect Day for a PicnicBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker

|genre=CookeryShort Stories|summary=There are strange reasons why books appeal to you. With I''A Perfect Day for m not usually a Picnic'' my immediate reaction was fan of short stories - I find it would be lovely all too easy to have put the ''weather'', never mind the food. Then book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I had am a look at the spine fan of the book (I know - IMartin Walker's [[Martin Walker'm sad) and it looked just like one of those expensive linen glass cloths - you know, s Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the ones you have temptation to read ''ironBruno's Challenge' ' was hard to resist and it brought back such memories of childhood picnics I'm rather glad that I had didn't even try. For those new to see what was on offer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849753539</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Andy Bates|title=Andy Bates: Modern Twists on Classic Dishes|rating=3|genre=Cookery|summary=I do tire of cook books which regurgitate what are essentially the same recipes time after time. Sometimes food writers rework their own recipes - a tweak hereseries, a change of emphasis there and you can have the same dish many times over, so it's a real breath of fresh air when an excellent introduction that will tell you all you find a book which seems need to have new ideas, or genuinely new approaches to classic dishes. Andy Bates has a classical know about who's who and the background (working in a Michelin starred restaurant by the time he was seventeen and time in France to hone his skills) but his business why Bruno is a stall in London's Whitecross street market. So - a perfect combination of technical knowledge, experience and knowing what people ''really'' want to eatSt Denis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908917709</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Margaret Powell|title=The Downstairs Cookbook: Recipes From A 1920s Household Cook|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Margaret Powell began her life in service as a housemaidI was going to argue. I mean, but she had an interest in cooking cows are for cheese (her mother wouldnI couldn't allow her to learn at home as food was too precious to wasteconsider eating red meat...) and by talking to cooks, watching what they did and making notes she eventually rose to be cook I much prefer my elephants in the grand houses on wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the nineteen twentiessake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. ''The Downstairs Cookbook'' is her collection If I had to choose between the company of humans and the recipes which she usedcompany of animals, or which were current at I would probably choose the timeanimals. But it's more than I insisted thatI read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. Think of it as being rather like a visit to a good cookery school where you'd collect all those hints I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and tips which make recipes ''work'' fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the anecdotes about life in a professional kitchendecision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230767834</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Danaan Elderhill0008333173|title=The Magic Book Hungry: A Memoir of CookeryWanting More|author=Grace Dent|rating=3.5|genre=Spirituality and ReligionAutobiography|summary=Back in I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the seventeenth century in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia there was a coven of witchesjudges on ''Masterchef''. As was common at You know that you're going to get an honest opinion from someone whom you sense does real food rather than fine dining most of the time witches were hunted and they had to hide their beliefs. The Friends You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of Euphrosyne, as they called themselves, turned to this deity (sheher. I'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 sight. 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 funequal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0092BX6O0</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonio CarluccioTee_Gross|title=A Recipe for LifeThis Cookbook is Gross|author=Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez

|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>

{{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

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Webb0241367875|title=Food BritanniaCompletely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook|author=Felicity Cloake|rating=45

|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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lucie CashKay Vintage|title=Fairytale FoodVintage Kitchenalia|author=Emma Kay

|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.

 {{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

|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' You'll quite probably also be looking at her it worked and thinking that she doesn't look as though she eats a lot of the output eitherwhat you needed to do. Well, there's a bit of a story behind The food we eat is no exception to 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 rule and 2012's Diamond Jubilee and Olympic Games mean that 'The One Show'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 resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in front of said flag. It's a splendidly chunky book the kitchen - and beautifully presented. Flick he covers everything from the book open at any page and you're likely type of knives we use through to find a double-page spread the food of pictures (shooting on the country estatefuture. Best of all, making traditional cakes, foraging for food... you get the picture) or he does it in language that even a recipe accompanied by a full-page photograph of the end productscience illiterate like me can understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718156811</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigella LawsonHayward New|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the HomeNotebook|author=Vicky Hayward

|summary=Nigella LawsonIn 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his 's latest offering is subtitled 'recipes from New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the heart School of homeEconomic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, which is salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford to cook on a very vague title whose significance (undoubtedly clear to grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who watch the TV versions) I fail sometimes needed to decodecook for large numbers. All cooking Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is done in a stress on the kitchen after allcareful combination of flavours and aromas. But I suppose coming up with interesting titles for general collections Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of recipes some Moorish cooking 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 eschewed in favour of English food, something much more subtle and to some extent drinkwe see influences from Altamiras' own region, must be a daunting taskAragon, but as an experienced TV presenter (as one of the ''Two Fat Ladies'' with the late Jennifer Paterson) Iberian court and as one who was born in the post-war rationing world in 1947, Clarissa Dickson Wright is well placed to do soNew World.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905211856</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Federman_Fasting|authortitle=Hugh FearnleyFasting and Feasting -WhittingstallThe Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray|titleauthor=River Cottage Veg Every Day!Adam Federman

|summary=Hugh FearnleyFor more than thirty years, Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed--Whittingstall wants to make it clear that ''River Cottage: Veg Every Day!'' is lived in a ''vegetable'' cookbook and that it's up to the reader to determine whether remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or not it's a ''vegetarian'' cookbooktelephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbours in this economically impoverished region. He makes it quite clear She was fond of saying that he's not she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a vegetarian steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and has no intention of becoming one, but isolated life she chose for the four months which it took herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to film the series other great food writers of which this her time: M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, and Julia Child. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, the book he didnBBC described her as an ''almost forgotten culinary star.''t touch Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other food writers, has had a scrap of meat or fishlasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and regional cuisines. ItGray's a new Hugh, but prescience was unrivalled: She wrote about what today we would call the slimmedSlow Food movement--from foraging to eating locally--down version is the result of a conscious decision long before filming began rather than the consequences it became part of the change of dietcultural mainstream. The new hairstyle has yet to be explained…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408812126</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Matt ArmendarizMordechai_Simple|title=On A Stick!Simple Fare: Spring and Summer|author=Karen Mordechai

|summary=ThereKaren Mordechai's something rather fun about eating your family history has its roots in the Jerusalem of the 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 the United States they brought this way of cooking with them, along with the tradition of sharing and enjoying food off a stick. The first thing Mordechai believes that springs food's ability to my mind bring people together is unparalleled and that the food you make is candy floss (I never buy it when it's in a bag...sacrilegious!) but if you think about it there are lots compilation of things the way you can have lived. Thinking back over the food we eat off a stick, both savoury that is so true and sweet. And for the author first time, I looked on a recipe book as an elegant way of this cookery book would have you believe that everything tastes better when itseeing someone else's eaten off a stick!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594744890</amazonuk>history.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jojo TullohMiller_Five|title=East End Paradise: Kitchen Garden Cooking In The City|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=It's easy Five Ways to think that growing your own fruit Cook Asparagus (and vegetables is only possible if you live in the country and have a large garden, but Jojo Tulloh prove that you can live in a city, have an allotment – in her case a patch of East London waste ground – and put good food on the family's table. Even if you don't have Other Recipes): the luxury of an allotment (Art and in some areas the waiting list is longer than most people can contemplate) there are still ways that almost everyone can produce some Practice of their own food. You might wonder why this matters, but anything you grow yourself is going to be fresher when you eat it and taste far better than anything you pick up at the supermarket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099523590</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewMaking Dinner|author=Charles Lamb|title=Great Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other EssaysPeter Miller|rating=45

|summary=When you''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' is ve been producing meals for around about half a collection of food-related essays from century the early 19th centurychances are that, like me, with you have a humorous bentfairly regular set of menus which you produce. They Hopefully, it's not quite in the 'fishcakes! Goodness is it Friday already?'re realm but you probably have something in your culinary locker for every occasion. It takes a few 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 each - a light read for recipes which you're going to bring a smile try. The inspiration to your face, then on read ''Five Ways to Cook Asparagus'' was simple and serendipitous - I'd just come home with the first of the next little foodie treatseason's English asparagus when the book arrived in the post.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk> I couldn't ''not'' have a look, now could I?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr A W ChaseKunin_Good|title=Great Good Clean Food: Buffalo Cake Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Indian PuddingFeel Your Best|author=Lily Kunin

|summary=Think of I've got to begin by outlining a bias: I don't like food fads. There's a slimvery good reason for avoiding gluten if you are coeliac, American Mrs Beeton (her cookbook, not her) and but if it's simply a food choice then youmake life more difficult for people who 've got 'must'' avoid gluten. The same point applies to a rough idea lot of the premise 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'Buffalo Cake t touch caffeine and Indian Pudding'haven't done so since I discovered what it did to my blood pressure. It includes recipes for such treats as Minnesota corn bread Having said all this, popcorn puddingI'm quite happy to read books which ''do'' advocate avoiding certain food groups, pumpkin pie simply because (a) there ''might'' be something in it and pork cake. The recipes aren(b) people who't ve had to the whole picture, though. Dr Alvin Wood Chase was inventive to create a travelling salesman as well as an author, so being blessed varied diet with restricted ingredients often come up with the gift of the gab, he peppers his some excellent recipes with anecdotes and comments . And that was how I came to amuse and entertain the reader''Good Clean Food''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241950996</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Elizabeth DavidYang_Food|title=Great A FoodGuide to Lowering Blood Pressure: A Taste of the Sun6 Simple Steps|author=Yuchi Yang

|summary=There are three people Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and she's allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to whom I owe my ability help us to put imaginative and tasty food on the table: [[:Category:Nigel Slater|Nigel Slater]] for reduce our blood pressure ''without'' taking away the mystiquemedication, [[:Category:Jane Grigson|Jane Grigson]] for teaching me that food was deeply interesting and [[:Category:Elizabeth David|Elizabeth David]] just for being who although she was. Initially I found her a little daunting but once I realised does stress that cookery books were about far more than recipes I appreciated her true worth. In the wonderful if you ''are'Great Food'taking medication you shouldn' series Penguin have given us t stop doing so without consulting your doctor. You can reduce your BP in six steps, which are actually a selection of her writing and a demonstration of how she changed the way that post-war Britain thought about foodlot simpler than they sound.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951089</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Max Clark and Susan Spaull|title=Leith's Meat Bible|rating=5|genre=Cookery|summary= Does it work? Yes, it does: I've been cooking beef eating this way for almost half a century more than two years and I thought that I was making a pretty good job of it, but last weekend I cooked the best beef I have ever done and it was down to 'Leithve gone from having 's Meat Biblevery worrying'. It wasn't because I had suddenly found blood pressure readings to getting a recipe to top all the others – it was because this book doesnsmile when they't just tell you ''what'' to do; it tells you why. Because of this I made some fairly minor adjustments to how I cooked the beef – re taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and the results were amazing. Itthat's the ultimate meat cookbook and unless you're vegetarian or vegan you should have onewithout taking medication of any sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747590478</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gregg WallaceBacchia_Italian|title=Gregg's Favourite PuddingsItalian Street Food|author=Paola Bacchia

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