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|author=Gregg WallaceChloe Coker and Jane Montgomery |title=Gregg's Favourite PuddingsThe Vegetarian Pantry
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|summary=Anyone who has watched Gregg Wallace on Chloe Coker and Jane Montgomery aren't strict vegetarians, but they are 'MasterChef'' will be aware of his passion (and that is ''notpassionate about fresh, healthy, seasonal, meat-free cooking.'' putting it too strongly) for puddings. He's never lost his sweet tooth A shared frustration about being unable to find the inspiration andideas they wanted led to this book, unlike many men, is not afraid with its recipes which will appeal to everyone from strict vegetarians to admit itmeat eaters. He takes a childReassuringly they're not out to convert anyone -like delight in the final course and has been known just to go against the professional judge if something give some inspiration, particularly appeals to him: hepeople who haven's salvaged the pride t tried this type of many 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 contestant with his ''yummy''gluten intolerance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>060062143X184975344X</amazonuk>
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|author=Anna Del ConteWill Torrent|title=Risotto with NettlesPatisserie at Home
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|genre=AutobiographyCookery|summary= People I've always been in awe of people who are serious about food will know can make great desserts - the name of Anna Del Conteones which taste amazing AND look stunning on the plate. SheI have used [[The Roux Brothers on Patisserie by Michel and Albert Roux]] (that's Michel Roux senior, by the way and not his son) but I found the book almost pernickety in some of its requirements and I've long wished for a serious writer about Italian food but not book which was rather more relaxed and aimed at the home cook rather than someone who has courted fame via the television screenaspired to be a professional chef. You'll have met her in places like 'SainsburyPatisserie at Home's Magazine' or read some of her brilliant writing about seemed to fit the food of her native Italybill.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995059911849753547</amazonuk>
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|author=Yotam OttolenghiHannah Miles|title=PlentyCheesecake|rating=4.5
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|summary=I'm sure that there are many good reasons have a weakness for buying cheesecake, the genuine item rather than the Guardian of a Saturday but over-sweet lookalikes found in some supermarkets. I always enjoy Yotam Ottolenghi's New Vegetarian columnlove that unctuous richness and the slightly tart taste on the tongue. I'm not a vegetarian (nor, indeedless keen on what they deliver in terms of calories, is Ottolenghi) but he that simply means that cheesecake has a way with vegetables whether they're to be served on their own or as an accompaniment which occasional treat - and the best that there is fresh, full of flavour and excitingaround. The background So, ''Cheesecake'' by Hannah Miles was going to press all the food is in Israel and Palestine with right buttons. Hannah reached the region's rich supply final of vegetablesMasterchef in 2007, pulses and grainsso she knows a thing or two about food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919336841849753520</amazonuk>
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|author=Xanthe MiltonTori Finch|title=Eat Me!: The Stupendous, Self-raising World of Cupcakes and Bakes According to Cookie GirlA Perfect Day for a Picnic|rating=54
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|summary=What a stunning book this isThere are strange reasons why books appeal to you. The insideWith ''A Perfect Day for a Picnic'' my immediate reaction was it would be lovely to have the ''weather'', that isnever mind the food. Then I was almoststunned in had a less positive way by look at the brightness spine of the front cover.book (I know - I don't m sad) and it looked just like pink at the best one of timesthose expensive linen glass cloths - you know, the ones you have to ''iron'' and this book is very, verypinkit brought back such memories of childhood picnics that I had to see what was on offer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919251181849753539</amazonuk>
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|author=Michael BoothAndy Bates|title=Sushi and BeyondAndy Bates: What the Japanese Know About CookingModern Twists on Classic Dishes|rating=43
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|summary=Japanese I do tire of cook books which regurgitate what are essentially the same recipes time after time. Sometimes food has 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's a real breath of fresh air when you find a tendency book which seems to sound a bit freakish have new ideas, or even controversialgenuinely new approaches to classic dishes. Raw fish? Octopus ice cream? Whale meat? Yet it is slowly infiltrating Andy Bates has a classical background (working in a Michelin starred restaurant by the UK with sushi conveyor belt restaurants popping up everywhere time he was seventeen and noodle bars offering Westernised bowls of steaming noodlestime in France to hone his skills) but his business is a stall in London's Whitecross street market. In this book Michael Booth takes his wife and two young children to experience the real thing, travelling across the whole So - a perfect combination of Japan tasting an enormous range of foods and learning about their historytechnical knowledge, how the foods have been produced experience and are cooked and eatenknowing what people ''really'' want to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995164461908917709</amazonuk>
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|author=Cass Titcombe, Patrick Clayton-Malone and Dominic LakeMargaret Powell|title=CanteenThe Downstairs Cookbook: Great British FoodRecipes From A 1920s Household Cook|rating=4.5
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|summary=I love Margaret Powell began her life in service as a housemaid, but she had an interest in cooking (her mother wouldn't allow her to learn at home as food was too precious to waste) and I can happily read a recipe book for fun by talking to cooks, watching what they did and for inspirationmaking notes she eventually rose to be cook in the grand houses on the nineteen twenties. It's always good to see what cookery books spawned by restaurants offer. Just occasionally you spot a combination 'The Downstairs Cookbook'' is her collection of foods the recipes which you would never have thought ofshe used, but or which works brilliantly, but were current at the time. But it's more often I've found myself wondering two thingsthan that. Who, in their own home, would go to the trouble Think of creating these dishes and, more importantly, who would want it as being rather like a visit to eat them? At the other end of the scale a good cookery school where you find 'Canteen: Great British Foodd collect all those hints and tips which make recipes ''work'' and you heave the anecdotes about life in a sigh of reliefprofessional kitchen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919363220230767834</amazonuk>
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|author=Mo SmithDanaan Elderhill|title=The Lazy Cook's Family FavouritesMagic Book of Cookery|rating=43.5|genre=CookerySpirituality and Religion|summary=These days I get very nervous when I hear about books for 'lazy' cooks, or how Back in the seventeenth century in what was then the Kingdom of Bohemia there was a coven of witches. As was common at that time witches were hunted and they had to cheat when preparing mealshide their beliefs. ThereThe Friends of Euphrosyne, as they called themselves, turned to this deity (she's a very simple reason for this: good food, prepared using seasonal ingredients which don't break one of the budget needs skill three graces and knowledge and neither are the prerogative of the lazy. Mo Smith might like there to remind us to think that she's lazyhave fun) in their time of need and developed rituals which could be assimilated into social gatherings, but take my word for it – she isn'tallowing them to hide in plain sight. She might have learned a few tricks for making good food quickly, Their book - The Magic Book of Cookery - vanished along with the coven when they were discovered but she's a woman who knows her onions Danaan Elderhill wants us to benefit from its ancient wisdom - and all sorts of other foodits fun.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749007826B0092BX6O0</amazonuk>
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|author=Jim Lahey Antonio Caluccio|title=My Bread: the Revolutionary No-work, No-knead MethodA Recipe for Life|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=ItAntonio Carluccio is a name you know well if you've any interest in food and particularly Italian food. He's well known as a long time since I did Home Economics at schoolcook, but a major part of it was learning methodsrestaurateur, whichdeli owner, I was assured would stand me television personality and author. In everything he's done he's concentrated on the flavour of the food - this isn't the man to turn to if you're interested in good stead for the rest fine dining as there's a lack of my lifefrills and ostentation - and he has his own phrase to describe his vision. A Victoria sponge was a careful progression 'Mof mof' stands for 'maximum of creaming flavour and gently adding flour and eggsminimum of fuss'. A white sauce had He's a couple of these methods, man after my own heart but essentially when I thought about it meant working through a series I realised that I knew little, beyond the occasional news item, of instructions until they became second natureCarluccio the man. Bread was His autobiography came at just the worst requiring fermenting, kneading, proving and then more kneading and risingright time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03930663041742703925</amazonuk>
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|author=Stuart BrownPrue Leith|title=Mma Ramotswe's CookbookRelish: My Life on a Plate|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=I expect there will be Prue Leith was born in South Africa, the daughter of a few people prominent actress who spot this book was considered 'dangerously liberal' in her views on race. Prue was largely unaware of the shelves horrors of apartheid and wonder who Mma Ramotswe is, but [[:Category:Alexander McCall Smith|Alexander McCall Smith's]] legion of fans certainly won't be amongst themhad a privileged lifestyle. This cookbook is a nice tie-She came to London in to the books, written with early sixties but still retains an awareness of colour as a foreword from AMS himself, and full of flavoursome recipes that are spoken of in his series legacy of books about Mma Ramotswe and her Number One Ladies Detective Agencychildhood. Illustrated with beautiful photography, lots What didn't come from her childhood was her love of quotes from the books, cooking - she drifted into catering almost accidentally but went on to set up a very successful catering company and lots of information about Botswanathen to open Leith's rich variety of food it's a wonderful mix of being both a Restaurant . Her cookery book, a reference book school and a companion work to the Mma Ramostwe booksregular food columns in national newspapers followed soon after.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184697139X0857384058</amazonuk>
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|author=Ani PhyoRobert L Wolke and Marlene Parrish|title=Ani's Raw Food DessertsWhat Einstein Kept Under His Hat: Secrets of Science in the Kitchen|rating=43.5
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|summary=I'm always keen '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 try new desserts. Ido so that you don'm also - in t need to look like a lowsnivelling wreck every time you make kedgeree? Life is littered with such conundrums (along with the old-key kind of way wives'- quite a fan tale solutions) but there seem to be more of raw-food eatingthem in the kitchen than elsewhere. I read Robert L Wolke has a couple of books on the topic some years ago, and was inspired by the medical anecdotes, and also column in the 'green' aspects of eating primarily raw food. But most of the raw food recipes IWashington'' ''Post''ve come across are over complex. So most of the time I made raw juices in which he debunks misconceptions and smoothiesanswers questions with logic, science and eat some salad and fresh fruit and nuts, but my diet is mainly non-rawa healthy dose of common sense.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07382130630393341658</amazonuk>
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|author=Keith FloydAndrew Webb|title=Stirred But Not Shaken: The AutobiographyFood Britannia
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|genre=AutobiographyCookery|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 ve always suspected that British food gained its dreadful reputation after the screen before we retuned to the presenterend of World War II. Programmes stagnated as Rationing lasted for many years and the cook spoke to camera and lectured sort of food which you could buy in the viewer on how to make sponge cake average hotel or a fish dishrestaurant was pretty poor. Then An image like that sticks: we were shocked awake. There was a manmight have Stilton cheese, Scottish raspberries, quite good-looking in Welsh lamb and a raffish, slightly dangerous sort host of other wonderful foodstuffs but still we are thought of way, as the people who cooked on eat the deck food of a trawler or wherever the whim took him, always glass in hand post-war boarding house. Andrew Webb is a food journalist and photographer - 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 's set out to prove that he was Keith Floydthere's a wealth of regional food, or Floydy traditional recipes and passionate producers just waiting to millionsbe found.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02830710521847946232</amazonuk>
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|author=Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray Lucie Cash|title=The 30-Minute Vegan: 150 Simple and Delectable Recipes for Optimal HealthFairytale Food
|rating=3.5
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|summary=I am Are you looking for a committed vegetarian, gift for someone who enjoys cooking and who strongly believes has an interest in the health benefits fairy tales? If so, this book could well be your perfect answer. It has over sixty recipes - none of a meat free dietthem at all complex - and they're all associated with favourite fairy tales. I have in Instead of the past been tempted to go completely vegan, but usual carefully-primped pictures of the lure finished dishes there are lavish illustrations by Yelena Bryksenkova of chocolate scenes from the tales and cheese proved too strong. I didn't find a double page spread which didn't have no will powersome entertaining embellishment. It's also a bonus that there's a gentle humour in the illustrations, as in this note from Goldilocks:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07382132761848093578</amazonuk>
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|author=Phil VickeryMarian Keyes|title=Phil Vickery's PuddingsSaved by Cake: Over 80 Ways to Bake Yourself Happy
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|summary=I have Right now you are probably thinking 'Marian Keyes? She writes chick-lit doesn't she? What's she doing writing a weakness for puddings cookbook?' You'll quite probably also be looking at her and whilst I wouldnthinking that she doesn't consider buying look as though she eats a ready meal I will happily trawl lot of the aisles for a good desert when I haven't the time to spend in the kitchenoutput either. So Well, the opportunity to read there's a bit of a story behind this book with the sub-title ''every pudding you have ever wanted to make'' was simply too good to pass up. I have two favourites when I think of puddings – Tarte Tatin and Crème Brulee – so I was keen to see Phil Vickery's recipes for these classics..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847376835071815889X</amazonuk>
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|author=Jennifer McCann Jamie Oliver|title=Vegan Lunch Box Around the WorldJamie's Great Britain
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|summary=I am The Royal Wedding in 2011 and 2012's Diamond Jubilee and Olympic Games mean that ''anything'' which can be adorned with a long-time Vegetarian but sometimes flex up (or downUnion Jack will be. Barbour do waxed Union Jack dog coats, depending on how you look at so it) to Vegan since I donshould come as no surprise that Jamie Oliver is here with a large plate of good old roast beef in front of said flag. It't like eggs unless cleverly disguised as s a cake, splendidly chunky book and don't drink milkbeautifully presented. Not having either in Flick the house most book open at any page and you're likely to find a double-page spread of pictures (shooting on the time means cooking some recipes can be country estate, making traditional cakes, foraging for food... you get the picture) or a pain, so I was keen to have recipe accompanied by a look at this book for ideas full-page photograph of what I could use as substitutesthe end product.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07382135780718156811</amazonuk>
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|author=New Covent Garden Food Co Nigella Lawson|title=Soup For All OccasionsKitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home
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|summary=I love soup. ItNigella Lawson's more filling than latest offering is subtitled 'recipes from the heart of home', which is a drink and less time-consuming than a meal but very vague title whose significance (undoubtedly clear to those who watch the TV versions) I fail to decode. All cooking is done in the kitchen after all. But I suppose coming up with all the flavour you could ask interesting titles for. general collections of recipes is not that easy, so I don't mind good quality canned soup such as Baxter's or New Covent Gardenll leave it at that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701184604</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clarissa Dickson Wright|title=A History of English Food|rating=5|genre=History|summary=Writing a history of English food, but I do prefer and to make my ownsome extent drink, so what could must be better than a recipe book from New Covent Garden Food Co? It's not a book of recipes for the soups they selldaunting task, but a series as an experienced TV presenter (as one of recipes from their staff which will take you, the ''Two Fat Ladies'' with the late Jennifer Paterson) and as one who was born in the title sayspost-war rationing world in 1947, through all occasionsClarissa Dickson Wright is well placed to do so.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07522267971905211856</amazonuk>
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|author=Richard Mabey Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall|title=Wild CookingRiver Cottage Veg Every Day!
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|summary=It's become fashionable now Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall wants to make do, to cut back - even for those who have no need to do so. Conspicuous consumption is frowned upon and thriftiness is the new black, so it clear that ''River Cottage: Veg Every Day!'Wild Cooking'is a ', previously published in hardback as 'vegetable'The New English Cassoulet'cookbook and that it' is going s up to appeal the reader to the mood of the moment with its approach of determine whether or not it's a ''vegetarian''busking in the kitchencookbook. He makes it quite clear that he' s not a vegetarian and making do. Some has no intention of becoming one, but for the four months which it might seem a little extreme – I really cantook to film the series of which this is the book he didn't imagine that I will ever slow cook touch a Peking Duck in front scrap of a fan heater simply because it might as well cook the food whilst itmeat or fish. It's heating a new Hugh, but the room – but I love slimmed-down version is the idea result of using a glut to make broad bean hummus, or even conscious decision before filming began rather than the consequences of gathering up vegetables which have been left when the field change of diet. The new hairstyle has been harvested.yet to be explained…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995229691408812126</amazonuk>
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|author=Gill HolcombeMatt Armendariz|title=Fish Pies and French Fries, Vegetables, Meat and Something Sweet...Affordable, Everyday Food and Family-friendly Recipes Made EasyOn A Stick!|rating=2.54
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|summary=Following on from her success with [[How There's something rather fun about eating your food off a stick. The first thing that springs to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have my mind is candy floss (I never buy it when it's in a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans bag... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher... by Gill Holcombe|the book with the atrociously long title]] Gill Holcombe has given us another long title sacrilegious!) but if you think about it there are lots of things you can eat off a stick, both savoury and more easy recipes aimed at busy people who live real livessweet. The principle is And the same – few people author of this cookery book would have unlimited time and/or money and these recipe books go some way towards proving you believe that everything tastes better when it is possible to prepare food simply and quickly without breaking the Bank. She promises 'simple, wholesome and nutritious recipes' – does she deliver?s eaten off a stick!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19058623341594744890</amazonuk>
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|author=Victoria Moore Jojo Tulloh|title=How to DrinkEast End Paradise: Kitchen Garden Cooking In The City|rating=54|genre=LifestyleCookery|summary=A friend who saw me reading this book was moved It's easy to ask think that growing your own fruit and vegetables is only possible if I really needed you live in the advice country and was quite surprised when I explained have a large garden, but Jojo Tulloh prove that it was about 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 whole range of liquid intake from family's table. Even if you don't have the humble glass luxury of warm water an allotment (try it – it's wonderful first thing and in some areas the morningwaiting list is longer than most people can contemplate) to rare spirits costing hundreds there are still ways that almost everyone can produce some of pounds a bottletheir own food. It's completely unpreachy with not a word about how much liquid You might wonder why this matters, but anything you should grow yourself is going to be taking in each day to how few units fresher when you should be consuming each week. It's about getting the best (which isn't always the most expensive) and enjoying eat it – and most importantly, enjoying a drink when that's taste far better than anything you pick up at the drink you wantsupermarket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18470802000099523590</amazonuk>
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|author=Delia SmithCharles Lamb|title=Delia's Complete How To CookGreat Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays
|rating=4
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|summary=At the end of the last century Delia Smith produced her ''How to CookA Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' series – three volumes which gave the inexperienced cook the grounding that they would need to put good is a collection of food on -related essays from the table for any occasionearly 19th century, with a humorous bent. Produced in three volumes ([[DeliaThey's How To Cook re but a few pages each - Book 1 by Delia Smith|volumes 1]], [[Delia's How To Cook - Book 2 by Delia Smith|2]] and [[Delia's How a light read to Cook - Book 3 by Delia Smith|3]]) it always seemed bring a smile to me your face, then on to be a reworking of her [[Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course by Delia Smith|Complete Cookery Course]] which began life in a similar manner. There were some new recipes, some reworkings of old favourites and some that were well known. The books were directed at the novice rather than the experienced cook, but found favour with both as this was a time when Delia could do no wrongnext little foodie treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05635390700241951003</amazonuk>
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|author=Kate ColquhounDr A W Chase|title=The Thrifty CookbookGreat Food: Buffalo Cake and Indian Pudding|rating=54
|genre=Cookery
|summary=Using left-over food canThink of a slim, as Kate Colquhoun saysAmerican Mrs Beeton (her cookbook, become something of an obsession. Inot her) and you've done it for years and I do occasionally wonder if I ever eat got a meal which doesn't owe something to rough idea of the day before – or even the day before that. Tonight wepremise of 're having chicken (from yesterday's roast) Buffalo Cake and roast vegetables (the last of the selection in the vegetable rack) followed by queen of puddings (the end of the loaf which made chicken sandwiches Indian Pudding''. It includes recipes for lunchboxessuch treats as Minnesota corn bread, popcorn pudding, the last of a pot of jam pumpkin pie and a couple of eggs)pork cake. The carcass of recipes aren't the chicken made stock and whilst that whole picture, though. Dr Alvin Wood Chase was simmering I used the steam to make the custard for ice cream a travelling salesman as well as an author, so being blessed with the last gift of this week's eggsthe gab, the end of the weekend's cream he peppers his recipes with anecdotes and some milk. It's all good food, but you do need comments to know what you're doing amuse and how you can make best use of what's in entertain the kitchen. That's where ''The Thrifty Cookbook'' comes inreader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07475970490241950996</amazonuk>
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|author=Elizabeth David Pritchard|title=Shooting Great Food: A Taste of the CookSun
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|genre=AutobiographyCookery|summary=David Pritchard would have you believe that he was a bumbling TV producer and that he, almost by accident, discovered two men who would go on There are three people to become celebrity chefs. The first, Keith Floyd, was a revelation whom I owe my ability to viewers as he slurped a glass (or two) of wine, said exactly what you thought he shouldn't have said put imaginative and cooked amazing tasty food in one exotic location after another. After on the stultifying programmes made by table: [[:Category:Nigel Slater|Nigel Slater]] for taking away the likes Fanny Craddock he mystique, [[:Category:Jane Grigson|Jane Grigson]] for teaching me that food was a breath of fresh air deeply interesting and like or loathe him there [[:Category:Elizabeth David|Elizabeth David]] just for being who she was no way that you could be ambivalent. The second man, Rick Stein, was an entirely different, er, kettle of fishInitially I found her a little daunting but once I realised that cookery books were about far more than recipes I appreciated her true worth. Quiet, thoughtful and decidedly more erudite – it was difficult to imagine two more diverse personalities, but he brought out In the best wonderful ''Great Food'' series Penguin have given us a selection of both her writing and made programmes which stay in a demonstration of how she changed the mind years laterway that post-war Britain thought about food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00072783060241951089</amazonuk>
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|author=Daniel StevensMax Clark and Susan Spaull|title=Bread: River Cottage Handbook No 3Leith's Meat Bible
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|summary=Have you ever I've been tempted by cooking beef for almost half a bread recipe in a magazine century 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 looked so easy you really ought was down to give it 'Leith's Meat Bible'. It wasn't because I had suddenly found a go? Have you followed the instructions recipe to top all the letter others – or so it was because this book doesn't just tell you thought – only ''what'' to find that do; it tells you produced a solid mass fit only for why. Because of this I made some fairly minor adjustments to how I cooked the birds beef – and even they took it as an insult? Me toothe results were amazing. It'Bread: River Cottage Handbook No 3s the ultimate meat cookbook and unless you' was to be my final attempt at bread making and if that failed then I would re vegetarian or vegan you should have to make the regular trip to the local artisan bakerone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>074759533X0747590478</amazonuk>
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|author=Delia SmithGregg Wallace|title=DeliaGregg's Frugal FoodFavourite Puddings
|rating=4
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|summary=Following a lamentable lack Anyone who has watched Gregg Wallace on ''MasterChef'' will be aware of ability to predict the way his passion (and that public opinion was heading when she published [[Deliais ''not''s How To Cheat At Cooking by Delia Smith|How to Cheat at Cooking]] putting ittoo strongly) for puddings. He's good to see that Delia's returned to form with an updating never lost his sweet tooth and reissue of her original classic bestseller, ''Frugal Food''unlike many men, is not afraid to admit it. Frugal Food was first published He takes a child-like delight in the nineteen seventies when we were having a little local financial difficulty final course and it caught has been known to go against the professional judge if something particularly appeals to him: he's salvaged the mood pride of the times many a contestant with its preference for spending time in the kitchen to produce economical meals rather than spending money to buy timehis ''yummy''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>034091856X060062143X</amazonuk>
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|author=Rick SteinAnna Del Conte|title=Coast to CoastRisotto with Nettles
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|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=You People who are serious about food will know what you're going to get with Rick Steinthe name of Anna Del Conte. There's a good reason why heShe's a serious writer about Italian food but not someone who has courted fame via the television chef, successful restaurateur and author – he delivers, on the table, on the screen and on the page, the sort of food which people want to eat. In his early days it was all You'll have met her in places like 'Sainsbury's Magazine' or read some of her brilliant writing about fish but in his latest book he gives recipes for the food from land and sea inspired by his travels across the worldof her native Italy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18460761450099505991</amazonuk>
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|author=Gill HolcombeYotam Ottolenghi|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... Plenty|rating=4.5
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|summary=These days few people have I'm sure that there are many good reasons for buying the luxury Guardian of unlimited time in which to prepare mealsa Saturday but I always enjoy Yotam Ottolenghi's New Vegetarian column. JobsI'm not a vegetarian (nor, childrenindeed, families and life all seem is Ottolenghi) but he has a way with vegetables whether they're to get in the way. The same be served on their own or as an accompaniment which is true fresh, full of money flavour and when you put the two factors together it's easy to see why people are tempted to buy cheap convenience foodexciting. It's on The background to the table without much effort, requires little food is in the way of equipment Israel and superficially it looks a lot cheaper than buying all Palestine with the ingredients to make a family meal. In region''How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthys rich supply of vegetables, Balanced Diet…'' gill Holcombe sets out to prove that it's possible to put good food on the table without breaking the Bankpulses and grains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19058621560091933684</amazonuk>
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|author=Laura LockingtonXanthe Milton|title=Cupboard LoveEat Me!: The Stupendous, Self-raising World of Cupcakes and Bakes According to Cookie Girl
|rating=5
|genre=AutobiographyCookery|summary=There's something extraordinarily refreshing about What a stunning book by someone with whom you can empathise – not a celebritythis is. The inside, that is. I was almoststunned in a victim or an axe-grinder, but a real person leading less positive way by the sort brightness of life which you can recognisethe front cover. ItI don's even better when that someone unashamedly loves good food and wants to share that love with t like pink at the reader. Meet Laura Lockingtonbest of times, writerand this book is very, playwright, bon vivant and feeder of a greedy fridgeverypink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18462428000091925118</amazonuk>
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|author=Sybil Kapoor Michael Booth|title=Citrus Sushi and SpiceBeyond: A Year of FlavourWhat the Japanese Know About Cooking
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|summary=It's not often that Japanese food has a tendency to sound a cookery book keeps me awake at night but Sybil Kapoor's ''Citrus and Spice'' did just thatbit freakish or even controversial. The cause 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 the problem was the need to sort out in my own mind what, exactly, I understood by the word 'flavour'steaming noodles. For me it's always been a combination of various senses – taste, smell, texture on In this book Michael Booth takes his wife and two young children to experience the tonguereal thing, even travelling across the visual impact whole of the food – which gave a dish its flavour. It's the overall experience Japan tasting an enormous range of foods and learning about their history, how the food. Sybil Kapoor wants me to think differentlyfoods have been produced and are cooked and eaten.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184737221X0099516446</amazonuk>
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|author=Kathleen Burk Cass Titcombe, Patrick Clayton-Malone and Michael BywaterDominic Lake|title=Is This Bottle Corked? The Secret Life of Wine Canteen: Great British Food|rating=4.5|genre=TriviaCookery|summary=Now, Ilove food and I can happily read a recipe book for fun and for inspiration. It'm the first person s always good to admit I am not a wine buffsee what cookery books spawned by restaurants offer. I know Just occasionally you spot a lot more now than I did before my current relationshipcombination of foods which you would never have thought of, but which works brilliantly, but she is right to say more often I have a very masculine (ie dead weak) sense of smell've found myself wondering two things. Added Who, in their own home, would go to that a blunt sense the trouble of taste creating these dishes and I, more importantly, who would want to eat them? At the other end of the scale you find 'Canteen: Great British Food'm left saying I know what I like when I drink it, and that's ityou heave a sigh of relief.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05712417430091936322</amazonuk>
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|author=Pam CorbinMo Smith|title=Preserves: River Cottage Handbook No 2The Lazy Cook's Family Favourites|rating=4.5
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|summary=These days I was born not long after the end of the Second World Warget very nervous when I hear about books for 'lazy' cooks, at a time or how to cheat when some foods were rationed and a banana or an orange was a treatpreparing meals. Preserving was simply one of those things that you did to store one seasonThere's bounty to help you through less generous times – a very simple reason for this: good food, prepared using seasonal ingredients which don't break the budget needs skill and knowledge and all this without neither are the help prerogative of a freezer or even a fridgethe lazy. Freezers have undoubtedly made it easier Mo Smith might like us to save food think that she's lazy, but take my word for it– she isn's not the greenest solution and I t. She might have long wanted learned a book which extended my range of recipesfew tricks for making good food quickly, most but she's a woman who knows her onions and all sorts of which I inherited from my parentsother food.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07475953210749007826</amazonuk>
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|author=Rosie Sykes, Polly Russell and Zoe HeronJim Lahey |title=The Kitchen RevolutionMy Bread: the Revolutionary No-work, No-knead Method|rating=4.5
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|summary=It's a long time since I did Home Economics at school, but a major part of it was learning methods, which, I've been cooking regular family meals was assured would stand me in good stead for over forty yearsthe rest of my life. For more than 95% A Victoria sponge was a careful progression of those nights I've prepared creaming and gently adding flour and eggs. A white sauce had a meal from scratch and sometimes couple of these methods, but essentially it's just plain drudgerymeant working through a series of instructions until they became second nature. It's not just Bread was the cooking either – there's all the thinkingworst requiring fermenting, kneading, the planning proving and the buying to take into account too. Rosie Sykes, Polly Russell then more kneading and Zoe Heller have come up with a solutionrising.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009191373X0393066304</amazonuk>
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|author=Paul Richardson Stuart Brown|title=A Late Dinner: Discovering the Food of SpainMma Ramotswe's Cookbook|rating=54|genre=TravelCookery|summary=Although subtitled 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'discovering t be amongst them. This cookbook is a nice tie-in to the food of Spain''books, this excellently writtenwith a foreword from AMS himself, engaging and interesting book is full of flavoursome recipes that are spoken of in his series of books about so much moreMma Ramotswe and her Number One Ladies Detective Agency. Yes Illustrated with beautiful photography, lots of quotes from the focus is on books, and lots of information about Botswana's rich variety of food, mouthwateringly described, but it is also about culture's a wonderful mix of being both a cookery book, people, travel, tourism, history a reference book and geographya companion work to the Mma Ramostwe books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747593809184697139X</amazonuk>
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|author=Manju Malhi Ani Phyo|title=Easy Indian CookbookAni's Raw Food Desserts|rating=5 4
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|summary=Have you ever thought that youI'd like m always keen to make good Indian food but you dontry new desserts. I't really know where to start? Have you ever worried about overm also - in a low-key kind of way -spicing or underquite a fan of raw-spicing your dishes? Have you ever wondered what foods work well together food eating. I read a couple of books on the topic some years ago, and which don't? If you havewas inspired by the medical anecdotes, this third book from Manju Malhi will provide all and also the answers. 'green'Indian cuisine is perfume for aspects of eating primarily raw food. But most of the nose, relish for raw food recipes I've come across are over complex. So most of the lipstime I made raw juices and smoothies, nourishment for the body and nectar for the souleat some salad and fresh fruit and nuts, but my diet is mainly non-raw.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18448358390738213063</amazonuk>
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|author=Fuchsia Dunlop Keith Floyd|title=Shark's Fin and Sichuan PepperStirred But Not Shaken: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in ChinaThe Autobiography|rating=54|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=On her first trip 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 orient Fuchsia Dunlop is appalled at screen before we retuned to the preserved duck eggs served presenter. Programmes stagnated as hors d'oeuvre in Hong Kongthe cook spoke to camera and lectured the viewer on how to make sponge cake or a fish dish. Her description of this first encounter with the Chinese delicacy is rich with words like filthyThen we were shocked awake. There was a man, revoltingquite good-looking in a raffish, nightmarishslightly dangerous sort of way, translucentwho cooked on the deck of a trawler or wherever the whim took him, oozyalways glass in hand and who was quite capable of berating the cameraman about how he was doing his job. Like him, mouldyor hate him – you could not help but know that he was Keith Floyd, toxic, slime…or Floydy to millions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00919183080283071052</amazonuk>
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|author=Delia Smith Mark Reinfeld and Jennifer Murray |title=Delia's How To Cheat At CookingThe 30-Minute Vegan: 150 Simple and Delectable Recipes for Optimal Health
|rating=3.5
|genre=Cookery
|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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