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|author=Yotam OttolenghiChloe Coker and Jane Montgomery |title=PlentyThe Vegetarian Pantry|rating=4.5
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|summary=IChloe Coker and Jane Montgomery aren'm sure that there t strict vegetarians, but they are many good reasons for buying the Guardian of a Saturday but I always enjoy Yotam Ottolenghi's New Vegetarian column'passionate about fresh, healthy, seasonal, meat-free cooking. '' I'm not a vegetarian (nor, indeedA shared frustration about being unable to find the inspiration and ideas they wanted led to this book, is Ottolenghi) but he has a way with vegetables whether its recipes which will appeal to everyone from strict vegetarians to meat eaters. Reassuringly they're not out to convert anyone - just to be served on their own or as an accompaniment which is freshgive some inspiration, full particularly to people who haven't tried this type of flavour and excitingfood before. The background to the food is in Israel Some recipes are suitable for vegans (or can be easily adapted) and Palestine with the regionthey's rich supply of vegetablesre clearly marked, pulses and grainsas are those suitable for people with a gluten intolerance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933684184975344X</amazonuk>
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|author=Xanthe MiltonWill Torrent|title=Eat Me!: The Stupendous, Self-raising World of Cupcakes and Bakes According to Cookie GirlPatisserie at Home|rating=54
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|summary=What a I've always been in awe of people who can make great desserts - the ones which taste amazing AND look stunning book this ison the plate. I have used [[The insideRoux Brothers on Patisserie by Michel and Albert Roux]] (that's Michel Roux senior, that is. by the way and not his son) but I was found the book almoststunned pernickety in some of its requirements and I've long wished for a less positive way by book which was rather more relaxed and aimed at the brightness of the front coverhome cook rather than someone who aspired to be a professional chef.I don ''t like pink Patisserie at Home'' seemed to fit the best of times, and this book is very, verypinkbill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919251181849753547</amazonuk>
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|author=Michael BoothHannah Miles|title=Sushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About CookingCheesecake
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|summary=Japanese food has I have a tendency to sound a bit freakish or even controversialweakness for cheesecake, the genuine item rather than the over-sweet lookalikes found in some supermarkets. Raw fish? I love that unctuous richness and the slightly tart taste on the tongue. Octopus ice cream? Whale meat? Yet it I'm less keen on what they deliver in terms of calories, but that simply means that cheesecake has to be an occasional treat - and the best that there is slowly infiltrating the UK with sushi conveyor belt restaurants popping up everywhere and noodle bars offering Westernised bowls of steaming noodlesaround. In this book Michael Booth takes his wife and two young children So, ''Cheesecake'' by Hannah Miles was going to experience press all the real thing, travelling across right buttons. Hannah reached the whole final of Japan tasting an enormous range of foods and learning Masterchef in 2007, so she knows a thing or two about their history, how the foods have been produced and are cooked and eatenfood.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995164461849753520</amazonuk>
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|author=Cass Titcombe, Patrick Clayton-Malone and Dominic LakeTori Finch|title=Canteen: Great British FoodA Perfect Day for a Picnic|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love food and I can happily read a recipe book for fun and for inspirationThere are strange reasons why books appeal to you. ItWith 's always good to see what cookery books spawned by restaurants offer. Just occasionally you spot 'A Perfect Day for a combination of foods which you Picnic'' my immediate reaction was it would never be lovely to have thought ofthe ''weather'', but which works brilliantly, but more often I've found myself wondering two thingsnever mind the food. Who, in their own home, would go to Then I had a look at the trouble spine of creating these dishes the book (I know - I'm sad) andit looked just like one of those expensive linen glass cloths - you know, more importantly, who would want to eat them? At the other end of the scale ones you find have to ''iron'Canteen: Great British Food' and you heave a sigh it brought back such memories of reliefchildhood picnics that I had to see what was on offer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919363221849753539</amazonuk>
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|author=Mo SmithAndy Bates|title=The Lazy Cook's Family FavouritesAndy Bates: Modern Twists on Classic Dishes|rating=4.53
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|summary=These days I get very nervous when I hear about do tire of cook books for which regurgitate what are essentially the same recipes time after time. Sometimes food writers rework their own recipes - a tweak here, a change of emphasis there and you can have the same dish many times over, so it'lazy' cookss a real breath of fresh air when you find a book which seems to have new ideas, or how genuinely new approaches to cheat when preparing mealsclassic dishes. There's Andy Bates has a classical background (working in a very simple reason for this: good food, prepared using seasonal ingredients which don't break Michelin starred restaurant by the budget needs skill and knowledge time he was seventeen and neither are the prerogative of the lazy. Mo Smith might like us time in France to think that shehone his skills) but his business is a stall in London's lazy, but take my word for it – she isn'tWhitecross street market. She might have learned So - a few tricks for making good food quicklyperfect combination of technical knowledge, but sheexperience and knowing what people ''really''s a woman who knows her onions and all sorts of other foodwant to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07490078261908917709</amazonuk>
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|author=Jim Lahey Margaret Powell|title=My BreadThe Downstairs Cookbook: the Revolutionary No-work, No-knead MethodRecipes From A 1920s Household Cook|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's Margaret Powell began her life in service as a long time since I did Home Economics at schoolhousemaid, but a major part of it she had an interest in cooking (her mother wouldn't allow her to learn at home as food was learning methodstoo precious to waste) and by talking to cooks, watching what they did and making notes she eventually rose to be cook in the grand houses on the nineteen twenties. ''The Downstairs Cookbook'' is her collection of the recipes whichshe used, I was assured would stand me in good stead for or which were current at the rest of my lifetime. A Victoria sponge was a careful progression of creaming and gently adding flour and eggsBut it's more than that. A white sauce had a couple Think of these methods, but essentially it meant working through as being rather like a series of instructions until they became second nature. Bread was the worst requiring fermenting, kneading, proving visit to a good cookery school where you'd collect all those hints and then more kneading tips which make recipes ''work'' and risingthe anecdotes about life in a professional kitchen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03930663040230767834</amazonuk>
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|author=Stuart BrownDanaan Elderhill|title=Mma Ramotswe's CookbookThe Magic Book of Cookery|rating=43.5|genre=CookerySpirituality and Religion|summary=I expect Back in the seventeenth century in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia there will be was 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 coven of fans certainly won't be amongst themwitches. This cookbook is a nice tie-in to the books, written with a foreword from AMS himself, and full of flavoursome recipes As was common at that are spoken of in his series of books about Mma Ramotswe time witches were hunted and her Number One Ladies Detective Agencythey had to hide their beliefs. Illustrated with beautiful photographyThe Friends of Euphrosyne, lots of quotes from the booksas they called themselves, and lots of information about Botswanaturned to this deity (she's rich variety one of food it's a wonderful mix the three graces and there to remind us to have fun) in their time of being both a cookery bookneed and developed rituals which could be assimilated into social gatherings, a reference allowing them to hide 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 a companion work to the Mma Ramostwe booksits fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697139XB0092BX6O0</amazonuk>
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|author=Ani PhyoAntonio Caluccio|title=Ani's Raw Food DessertsA Recipe for Life
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|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=IAntonio Carluccio is a name you know well if you've any interest in food and particularly Italian food. He'm always keen to try new dessertss well known as a cook, restaurateur, deli owner, television personality and author. I In everything he's done he'm also s concentrated on the flavour of the food - this isn't the man to turn to if you're interested in fine dining as there's a lowlack of frills and ostentation -key kind and he has his own phrase to describe his vision. 'Mof mof' stands for 'maximum of way - quite a fan flavour and minimum of raw-food eatingfuss'. He's a man after my own heart but when I read a couple of books on the topic some years agothought about it I realised that I knew little, and was inspired by beyond the medical anecdotesoccasional news item, and also the 'green' aspects of eating primarily raw food. But most of Carluccio the raw food recipes I've come across are over complexman. So most of His autobiography came at just the right 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>07382130631742703925</amazonuk>
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|author=Keith FloydPrue Leith|title=Stirred But Not ShakenRelish: The AutobiographyMy Life on a Plate|rating=4.5
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|summary=I grew up with television cookery programmes and still have some recipes Prue Leith was born in my childish handwritingSouth Africa, which begin the daughter of a prominent actress who was considered 'dangerously liberal'4oz SR fl 2oz marg 2oz C sug…'' as I battled to copy what was in her views on the screen before we retuned to the presenterrace. Programmes stagnated as Prue was largely unaware of the cook spoke to camera horrors of apartheid and lectured the viewer on how to make sponge cake or had a fish dishprivileged lifestyle. Then we were shocked awake. There was a man, quite good-looking She came to London in a raffish, slightly dangerous sort of way, who cooked on the deck early sixties but still retains an awareness of colour as a trawler or wherever the whim took him, always glass in hand and who was quite capable legacy of berating the cameraman about how he was doing his jobher childhood. Like him, or hate him – you could not help What didn't come from her childhood was her love of cooking - she drifted into catering almost accidentally but know that he was Keith Floyd, or Floydy went on to set up a very successful catering company and then to millionsopen Leith's Restaurant . Her cookery school and regular food columns in national newspapers followed soon after.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02830710520857384058</amazonuk>
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|author=Mark Reinfeld Robert L Wolke and Jennifer Murray Marlene Parrish|title=The 30-Minute VeganWhat Einstein Kept Under His Hat: 150 Simple and Delectable Recipes for Optimal HealthSecrets of Science in the Kitchen
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|summary=I am ''Everyone'' knows that when you chop onions, you cry, but have you ever wondered ''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 a committed vegetarian, who strongly believes snivelling wreck every time you make kedgeree? Life is littered with such conundrums (along with the old-wives'-tale solutions) but there seem to be more of them in the health benefits of kitchen than elsewhere. Robert L Wolke has a meat free diet. I have column in the past been tempted to go completely vegan''Washington'' ''Post'' in which he debunks misconceptions and answers questions with logic, but the lure science and a healthy dose of chocolate and cheese proved too strong. I have no will powercommon sense.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07382132760393341658</amazonuk>
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|author=Phil VickeryAndrew Webb|title=Phil Vickery's PuddingsFood Britannia
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|summary=I have a weakness for puddings and whilst I wouldn't consider buying a ready meal I will happily trawl ve always suspected that British food gained its dreadful reputation after the aisles end of World War II. Rationing lasted for a good desert when I haven't many years and the time to spend sort of food which you could buy in the kitchenaverage hotel or restaurant was pretty poor. So An image like that sticks: we might have Stilton cheese, Scottish raspberries, Welsh lamb and a host of other wonderful foodstuffs but still we are thought of as the people who eat the opportunity to read food of a book with the subpost-title ''every pudding you have ever wanted to make'' was simply too good to pass upwar boarding house. I have two favourites when I think of puddings – Tarte Tatin Andrew Webb is a food journalist and photographer - and Crème Brulee – so I was keen he's set out to see Phil Vickeryprove that there's a wealth of regional food, traditional recipes for these classicsand passionate producers just waiting to be found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18473768351847946232</amazonuk>
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|author=Jennifer McCann Lucie Cash|title=Vegan Lunch Box Around the WorldFairytale Food
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|summary=I am Are you looking for a longgift 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 -time Vegetarian but sometimes flex up (or down, depending on how you look none of them at it) to Vegan since 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 dondidn't like eggs unless cleverly disguised as find a cake, and dondouble page spread which didn't drink milkhave some entertaining embellishment. Not having either It's also a bonus that there's a gentle humour in the house most of the time means cooking some recipes can be a painillustrations, so I was keen to have a look at as in this book for ideas of what I could use as substitutes.note from Goldilocks:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07382135781848093578</amazonuk>
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|author=New Covent Garden Food Co Marian Keyes|title=Soup For All OccasionsSaved by Cake: Over 80 Ways to Bake Yourself Happy
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|summary=I love soup. ItRight now you are probably thinking 's more filling than a drink and less timeMarian Keyes? She writes chick-consuming than a meal but with all the flavour you could ask for. I donlit doesn't mind good quality canned soup such as Baxtershe? What's or New Covent Garden, but I do prefer to make my own, so what could be better than she doing writing a recipe book from New Covent Garden Food Cocookbook? ' ItYou's not ll quite probably also be looking at her and thinking that she doesn't look as though she eats a book lot of recipes for the soups they selloutput either. Well, but there's a series bit of recipes from their staff which will take you, as the title says, through all occasionsa story behind this book...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0752226797071815889X</amazonuk>
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|author=Richard Mabey Jamie Oliver|title=Wild CookingJamie's Great Britain|rating=43.5
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|summary=ItThe Royal Wedding in 2011 and 2012's become fashionable now to make do, to cut back - even for those who have no need to do so. Conspicuous consumption is frowned upon Diamond Jubilee and thriftiness is the new black, so Olympic Games mean that ''Wild Cookinganything''which can be adorned with a Union Jack will be. Barbour do waxed Union Jack dog coats, previously published in hardback so it should come as ''The New English Cassoulet'' no surprise that Jamie Oliver is going to appeal to the mood of the moment here with its approach a large plate of 'busking good old roast beef in the kitchenfront of said flag. It' s a splendidly chunky book and making dobeautifully presented. Some of it might seem a little extreme – I really can Flick the book open at any page and you't imagine that I will ever slow cook re likely to find a Peking Duck in front double-page spread of a fan heater simply because it might as well cook pictures (shooting on the country estate, making traditional cakes, foraging for food whilst it's heating ... you get the room – but I love the idea of using picture) or a recipe accompanied by a glut to make broad bean hummus, or even full-page photograph of gathering up vegetables which have been left when the field has been harvestedend product.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995229690718156811</amazonuk>
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|author=Gill HolcombeNigella Lawson|title=Fish Pies and French Fries, Vegetables, Meat and Something Sweet...Affordable, Everyday Food and Family-friendly Kitchen: Recipes Made Easyfrom the Heart of the Home|rating=2.54
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|summary=Following on Nigella Lawson's latest offering is subtitled 'recipes from her success with [[How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Dietthe heart of home', with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have which is a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans very vague title whose significance (undoubtedly clear to those who watch the TV versions) I fail to decode... - Unless You Count All cooking is done in the Garlic Crusherkitchen after all... by Gill Holcombe|the book But I suppose coming up with the atrociously long title]] Gill Holcombe has given us another long title and more easy interesting titles for general collections of recipes aimed at busy people who live real lives. The principle is the same – few people have unlimited time and/or money and these recipe books go some way towards proving not that easy, so I'll leave it is possible to prepare food simply and quickly without breaking the Bankat that. She promises 'simple, wholesome and nutritious recipes' – does she deliver?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19058623340701184604</amazonuk>
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|author=Victoria Moore Clarissa Dickson Wright|title=How to DrinkA History of English Food
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|genre=LifestyleHistory|summary=A friend who saw me reading this book was moved Writing a history of English food, and to ask if I really needed the advice and was quite surprised when I explained that it was about the whole range some extent drink, must be a daunting task, but as an experienced TV presenter (as one of liquid intake from the humble glass of warm water (try it – it's wonderful first thing in the morning) to rare spirits costing hundreds 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. ItTwo Fat Ladies's about getting the best (which isn't always with the most expensivelate Jennifer Paterson) and enjoying it – and most importantlyas one who was born in the post-war rationing world in 1947, enjoying a drink when that's the drink you wantClarissa Dickson Wright is well placed to do so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18470802001905211856</amazonuk>
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|author=Delia SmithHugh Fearnley-Whittingstall|title=Delia's Complete How To CookRiver Cottage Veg Every Day!
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|summary=At the end of the last century Delia Smith produced her Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall wants to make it clear that ''River Cottage: Veg Every Day!'' is a ''How to Cookvegetable'' series – three volumes which gave the inexperienced cook the grounding cookbook and that they would need it's up to put good food on the table for any occasionreader to determine whether or not it's a ''vegetarian'' cookbook. Produced in three volumes ([[DeliaHe makes it quite clear that he's How To Cook - Book 1 by Delia Smith|volumes 1]]not a vegetarian and has no intention of becoming one, [[Delia's How To Cook - Book 2 by Delia Smith|2]] and [[Delia's How to Cook - Book 3 by Delia Smith|3]]) but for the four months which it always seemed took to me to be film the series of which this is the book he didn't touch a reworking scrap of her [[Delia Smithmeat or fish. It's Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith|Complete Cookery Course]] which began life in a similar manner. There were some new recipesHugh, some reworkings but the slimmed-down version is the result of old favourites and some that were well known. The books were directed at the novice a conscious decision before filming began rather than the experienced cook, but found favour with both as this was a time when Delia could do no wrongconsequences of the change of diet. The new hairstyle has yet to be explained…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05635390701408812126</amazonuk>
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|author=Kate ColquhounMatt Armendariz|title=The Thrifty CookbookOn A Stick!|rating=54
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|summary=Using left-over There's something rather fun about eating your food can, as Kate Colquhoun says, become something of an obsessionoff a stick. The first thing that springs to my mind is candy floss (I've done never buy it when it for years and I do occasionally wonder if I ever eat a meal which doesn't owe something to the day before – or even the day before that. Tonight we're having chicken (from yesterday's roast) and roast vegetables (the last of the selection in the vegetable racka bag...sacrilegious!) followed by queen but if you think about it there are lots of puddings (the end of the loaf which made chicken sandwiches for lunchboxesthings you can eat off a stick, the last of a pot of jam both savoury and a couple of eggs)sweet. The carcass of And the chicken made stock and whilst that was simmering I used the steam to make the custard for ice cream with the last author of this week's eggs, the end of the weekend's cream and some milk. It's all good food, but you do need to know what cookery book would have you're doing and how you can make best use of whatbelieve that everything tastes better when it's in the kitchen. That's where ''The Thrifty Cookbook'' comes in.eaten off a stick!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07475970491594744890</amazonuk>
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|author=David PritchardJojo Tulloh|title=Shooting the CookEast End Paradise: Kitchen Garden Cooking In The City
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|summary=Have It's easy to think that growing your own fruit and vegetables is only possible if you ever been tempted by a bread recipe live in the country and have a magazine and thought large garden, but Jojo Tulloh prove that it looked so easy you really ought to give it can live in a city, have an allotment – in her case a go? patch of East London waste ground – and put good food on the family's table. Have Even if you followed don't have the instructions to luxury of an allotment (and in some areas the letter – or so you thought – only to find waiting list is longer than most people can contemplate) there are still ways that you produced a solid mass fit only for the birds and even they took it as an insult? Me tooalmost everyone can produce some of their own food. 'Bread: River Cottage Handbook No 3' was You might wonder why this matters, but anything you grow yourself is going to be my final attempt fresher when you eat it and taste far better than anything you pick up at bread making and if that failed then I would have to make the regular trip to the local artisan bakersupermarket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759533X0099523590</amazonuk>
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|author=Delia SmithCharles Lamb|title=Delia's Frugal Great Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays
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|summary=Following a lamentable lack of ability to predict the way that public opinion was heading when she published [[Delia's How To Cheat At Cooking by Delia Smith|How to Cheat at Cooking]] it's good to see that DeliaA Dissertation Upon Roast Pig's returned to form with an updating and reissue of her original classic bestseller, ''Frugal Food''. Frugal Food was first published in the nineteen seventies when we were having is a little local financial difficulty and it caught the mood collection of food-related essays from the times early 19th century, with its preference for spending time in the kitchen a humorous bent. They're but a few pages each - a light read to produce economical meals rather than spending money bring a smile to buy timeyour face, then on to the next little foodie treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034091856X0241951003</amazonuk>
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|author=Rick SteinDr A W Chase|title=Coast to CoastGreat Food: Buffalo Cake and Indian Pudding
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|summary=You know what Think of a slim, American Mrs Beeton (her cookbook, not her) and you're going to get with Rick Stein. Thereve got a rough idea of the premise of 's a good reason why he's a television chef, successful restaurateur Buffalo Cake and author – he deliversIndian Pudding''. It includes recipes for such treats as Minnesota corn bread, on the tablepopcorn pudding, on the screen pumpkin pie and on pork cake. The recipes aren't the pagewhole picture, though. Dr Alvin Wood Chase was a travelling salesman as well as an author, so being blessed with the sort gift of food which people want to eat. In his early days it was all about fish but in the gab, he peppers his latest book he gives recipes for food from land with anecdotes and comments to amuse and sea inspired by his travels across entertain the worldreader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18460761450241950996</amazonuk>
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|author=Gill HolcombeElizabeth David|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 Great Food: A Taste of the Garlic Crusher... Sun
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|summary=These days few There are three people have the luxury of unlimited time in which to prepare meals. Jobs, children, families and life all seem whom I owe my ability to get in the way. The same is true of money put imaginative and when you put the two factors together it's easy to see why people are tempted to buy cheap convenience tasty food. It's on the table without much effort: [[:Category:Nigel Slater|Nigel Slater]] for taking away the mystique, requires little in the way of equipment [[:Category:Jane Grigson|Jane Grigson]] for teaching me that food was deeply interesting and superficially it looks [[:Category:Elizabeth David|Elizabeth David]] just for being who she was. Initially I found her a lot cheaper little daunting but once I realised that cookery books were about far more than buying all the ingredients to make a family mealrecipes I appreciated her true worth. In the wonderful ''How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy, Balanced Diet…Great Food'' gill Holcombe sets out to prove series Penguin have given us a selection of her writing and a demonstration of how she changed the way that it's possible to put good post-war Britain thought about food on the table without breaking the Bank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19058621560241951089</amazonuk>
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|author=Laura LockingtonMax Clark and Susan Spaull|title=Cupboard LoveLeith's Meat Bible
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|genre=AutobiographyCookery|summary=ThereI's something extraordinarily refreshing about ve been cooking beef for almost half a book by someone with whom you can empathise – not century and I thought that I was making a celebrity, a victim or an axe-grinderpretty good job of it, but last weekend I cooked the best beef I have ever done and it was down to 'Leith's Meat Bible'. It wasn't because I had suddenly found a real person leading recipe to top all the sort others – it was because this book doesn't just tell you ''what'' to do; it tells you why. Because of life which you can recognisethis I made some fairly minor adjustments to how I cooked the beef – and the results were amazing. It's even better when that someone unashamedly loves good food and wants to share that love with the reader. Meet Laura Lockington, writer, playwright, bon vivant ultimate meat cookbook and feeder of a greedy fridgeunless you're vegetarian or vegan you should have one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18462428000747590478</amazonuk>
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|author=Sybil Kapoor Gregg Wallace|title=Citrus and Spice: A Year of FlavourGregg's Favourite Puddings
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|summary=ItAnyone who has watched Gregg Wallace on 's not often that a cookery book keeps me awake at night but Sybil Kapoor's MasterChef''Citrus will be aware of his passion (and Spicethat is '' did just that. The cause of the problem was the need to sort out in my own mind what, exactly, I understood by the word not'flavour'putting it too strongly) for puddings. For me itHe's always been a combination of various senses – tastenever lost his sweet tooth and, smellunlike many men, texture on is not afraid to admit it. He takes a child-like delight in the tongue, even final course and has been known to go against the visual impact of the food – which gave a dish its flavour. Itprofessional judge if something particularly appeals to him: he's salvaged the overall experience pride of the food. Sybil Kapoor wants me to think differentlymany a contestant with his ''yummy''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737221X060062143X</amazonuk>
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|author=Kathleen Burk and Michael BywaterAnna Del Conte|title=Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine Risotto with Nettles
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|genre=TriviaAutobiography|summary=Now, I'm People who are serious about food will know the first person to admit I am not a wine buffname of Anna Del Conte. I know She's a lot more now than I did before my current relationship, serious writer about Italian food but she is right to say I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) sense of smellnot someone who has courted fame via the television screen. Added to that a blunt sense of taste and IYou'm left saying I know what I ll have met her in places like when I drink it, and that'Sainsbury's itMagazine' or read some of her brilliant writing about the food of her native Italy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05712417430099505991</amazonuk>
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|author=Pam CorbinYotam Ottolenghi|title=PreservesPlenty|rating=4.5|genre=Cookery|summary=I'm sure that there are many good reasons for buying the Guardian of a Saturday but I always enjoy Yotam Ottolenghi's New Vegetarian column. I'm not a vegetarian (nor, indeed, is Ottolenghi) but he has a way with vegetables whether they're to be served on their own or as an accompaniment which is fresh, full of flavour and exciting. The background to the food is in Israel and Palestine with the region's rich supply of vegetables, pulses and grains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091933684</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Xanthe Milton|title=Eat Me!: River Cottage Handbook No 2The Stupendous, Self-raising World of Cupcakes and Bakes According to Cookie Girl
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|summary=I was born not long after the end of the Second World WarWhat a stunning book this is. The inside, at a time when some foods were rationed and a banana or an orange was a treatthat is. Preserving I was simply one of those things that you did to store one season's bounty to help you through almoststunned in a less generous times – and all this without positive way by the help brightness of a freezer or even a fridgethe front cover. Freezers have undoubtedly made it easier to save food but itI don's not t like pink at the greenest solution best of times, and I have long wanted a this book which extended my range of recipesis very, most of which I inherited from my parentsverypink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07475953210091925118</amazonuk>
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|author=Rosie Sykes, Polly Russell and Zoe HeronMichael Booth|title=The Kitchen RevolutionSushi and Beyond: What the Japanese Know About Cooking
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|summary=I've been cooking regular family meals for over forty yearsJapanese food has a tendency to sound a bit freakish or even controversial. For more than 95% Raw fish? Octopus ice cream? Whale meat? Yet it is slowly infiltrating the UK with sushi conveyor belt restaurants popping up everywhere and noodle bars offering Westernised bowls of those nights I've prepared a meal from scratch and sometimes it's just plain drudgerysteaming noodles. It's not just In this book Michael Booth takes his wife and two young children to experience the cooking either – there's all real thing, travelling across the thinkingwhole of Japan tasting an enormous range of foods and learning about their history, how the planning foods have been produced and the buying to take into account too. Rosie Sykes, Polly Russell are cooked and Zoe Heller have come up with a solutioneaten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009191373X0099516446</amazonuk>
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|author=Paul Richardson Cass Titcombe, Patrick Clayton-Malone and Dominic Lake|title=A Late DinnerCanteen: Discovering the Great British Food of Spain|rating=4.5|genre=TravelCookery|summary=Although subtitled ''discovering the I love food of Spain'', this excellently written, engaging and interesting I can happily read a recipe book is about so much morefor fun and for inspiration. It's always good to see what cookery books spawned by restaurants offer. Yes Just occasionally you spot a combination of foods which you would never have thought of, the focus is on food, mouthwateringly describedbut which works brilliantly, but it is also about culturemore often I've found myself wondering two things. Who, peoplein their own home, travelwould go to the trouble of creating these dishes and, tourismmore importantly, history who would want to eat them? At the other end of the scale you find 'Canteen: Great British Food' and geographyyou heave a sigh of relief.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07475938090091936322</amazonuk>
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|author=Manju Malhi Mo Smith|title=Easy Indian CookbookThe Lazy Cook's Family Favourites|rating=4.5
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|summary=Have you ever thought that youThese days I get very nervous when I hear about books for 'lazy'd like cooks, or how to make cheat when preparing meals. There's a very simple reason for this: good Indian food but you , prepared using seasonal ingredients which don't really know where break the budget needs skill and knowledge and neither are the prerogative of the lazy. Mo Smith might like us to start? Have you ever worried about over-spicing or under-spicing your dishes? Have you ever wondered what foods work well together and which donthink that she's lazy, but take my word for it – she isn't? . If you She might havelearned a few tricks for making good food quickly, this third book from Manju Malhi will provide but she's a woman who knows her onions and all the answerssorts 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''Indian cuisine is perfume 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 noserest 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, relish for but essentially it meant working through a series of instructions until they became second nature. Bread was the lipsworst requiring fermenting, nourishment for the body kneading, proving and then more kneading and nectar for the soulrising.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18448358390393066304</amazonuk>
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|author=Fuchsia Dunlop Stuart Brown|title=SharkMma Ramotswe's Fin Cookbook|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=I expect there will be a few people who spot this book on the shelves and Sichuan Pepperwonder who Mma Ramotswe is, but [[: A SweetCategory:Alexander McCall Smith|Alexander McCall Smith's]] legion of fans certainly won't be amongst them. This cookbook is a nice tie-sour Memoir in to the books, written with a foreword from AMS himself, and full of flavoursome recipes that are spoken of Eating in Chinahis 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=54
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|summary=On her first trip I'm always keen to the orient Fuchsia Dunlop is appalled at the preserved duck eggs served as hors dtry new desserts. I'oeuvre m also - in Hong Konga low-key kind of way - quite a fan of raw-food eating. Her description I read a couple of this first encounter with books on the Chinese delicacy is rich with words like filthytopic some years ago, revoltingand was inspired by the medical anecdotes, nightmarishand 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, translucentand eat some salad and fresh fruit and nuts, oozy, mouldy, toxic, slime…but my diet is mainly non-raw.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919183080738213063</amazonuk>
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|author=Delia Smith Keith Floyd|title=DeliaStirred 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…'s How To Cheat At Cooking' 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>}} {{newreview|author=Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray |title=The 30-Minute Vegan: 150 Simple and Delectable Recipes for Optimal Health
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|summary=I don't often begin am a review by saying committed vegetarian, who shouldn't read strongly believes in the health benefits of a book, but meat free diet. I think it's important with Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking if there are not to be a lot of disappointed readers. If you've ever sighed because you know that your home-made soup would have tasted so much better if you had gone in the past been tempted to the trouble of making a decent stockgo completely vegan, if you've ever made a quick soufflé for lunch with a friend then you shouldn't even look at this book as you will end up besmirching but the name lure of St Delia chocolate and that would never docheese proved too strong. I have no will power.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919222910738213276</amazonuk>
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{{newreview |author=Phil Vickery|title=Moro EastPhil Vickery's Puddings|authorrating=Sam and Sam Clark4
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