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[[Category:New Reviews|Cookery]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Emma Kay|title=Vintage Kitchenalia|rating=3.5|genre=History|summary=Over the half century and more that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did, to an obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in the way of luxury - it was there to make meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quite'' state of the art, but it's equipped to a high standard and is a pleasure to work in. But what of all the equipment which went before, which paved the way to what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445657511</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marty Jopson|title=The Science of Food: An exploration of what we eat and how we cook|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summaryisbn=I've always believed that if you understood ''why'' something worked in a particular way it was very easy to remember ''how'' it worked and what you needed to do. The food we eat is no exception to this rule and ''The One Show'' resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in the kitchen - and he covers everything from the type of knives we use through to the food of the future. Best of all, he does it in language that even a science illiterate like me can understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438386</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Vicky Hayward1454955546|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen Notebook|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, 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 grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1442279419</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSugarless|author= Adam Federman|title= Fasting and Feasting - The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray|rating= 4|genre= Biography |summary= For more than thirty years, Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed--lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbours in this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to her door. This simple and isolated life she chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the other great food writers of her time: Nicole M. F. K. Fisher, Elizabeth David, and Julia Child. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, the BBC described her as an ''almost forgotten culinary star.'' Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and other food writers, has had a lasting and profound effect on the way we view and celebrate good food and regional cuisines. Gray's prescience was unrivalled: She wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement--from foraging to eating locally--long before it became part of the cultural mainstream. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1603587527</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Karen Mordechai|title=Simple Fare: Spring and Summer|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Karen Mordechai's 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. Mordechai believes that food's ability to bring people together is unparalleled and that the food you make is a compilation of the way you have lived. Thinking back over the food we eat, that is so true and for the first time I looked on a recipe book as an elegant way of seeing someone else's history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419724142</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Peter Miller|title=Five Ways to Cook Asparagus (and Other Recipes): the Art and Practice of Making DinnerAvena

|genre=CookeryLifestyle|summary=When you've been producing meals for around about half 'This isn't a century the chances are that, like me, you have a fairly regular set of menus which you producediet book. Hopefully itThe last thing anyone needs is another diet book.''s  There was a time, not quite in the 'fishcakes! Goodness is that long ago, when it Friday already?' realm but you probably have something in your culinary locker was thought that sugary food was better for every occasion. It takes a 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 than food with lots of doghigh-eared pages for recipes fat content. Fat was the demon food which you're was going to tryelevate your cholesterol and cause heart disease. Sugar was a carbohydrate, so good. The inspiration to read There''Five Ways to Cook Asparagus'' was simple s a problem, though. Sugar is addictive and serendipitous - I'd just come home with the first of the season's English asparagus when the book arrived can hijack your brain in much the postsame way as drugs like heroin and cocaine. I couldnDoes that sound over the top? Well, it isn't ''not'' have a look, now could I?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419723936</amazonuk>.

<!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lily Kunin1635866847|title=Good Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your BestThe Lavender Companion|ratingauthor=4|genre=Cookery|summary=Lily Kunin is a health coach Jessica Dunham and creator of [http://www.cleanfooddirtycity.com/ clean food dirty city site] and [https://www.instagram.com/cleanfooddirtycity/?hl=en instagram account]. She'd always been a food lover but her attitude to the food she was eating changed when she began to suffer from migraines. A long (and bad) time later she tried avoiding gluten and her symptoms were alleviated within 48 hours. From this she developed her food philosophy of seeing an intolerance to gluten as a creative opportunity. I liked that she has ''a constant dialogue'' with her body rather than sticking to a restrictive regime. That I can empathise with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419723901</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Yuchi Yang|title=A Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: 6 Simple StepsTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5

|summary=Yuchi Yang has been a registered dietitian for over twenty years and sheIt's allowing us strange, the benefit of her knowledge to help us to reduce our blood pressure things that make you ''withoutimmediately'' taking medication, although she does stress feel that if this is the book for you . Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''are, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' taking medication you shouldns a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't stop doing so without consulting your doctoreat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. You can reduce your BP (There's a recipe in six stepsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are actually sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a lot simpler than they soundproblem. Does it work? Yes, it does: I've been eating this way for more than two years and I've gone from having loved'very worrying' blood pressure readings to getting a smile when they're taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that's without taking medication of any sortthis book already.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1539803422</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paola Bacchia3791388398|title=Italian Street FoodNew European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries|author=Laurel Kratochvila|rating=4.5

|summary=Books about Italian food are everywhere, with This is probably one of the most unusual baking books I've encountered. It's built around 99 recipes for pizzabreads, pasta dishes brioches and all pastries but the usual suspects. In a winter which seems to be starting hard all too early what I wanted was sunshine recipes are interwoven with some thought- and the sort of food which you find provoking writing on the Italian streets how bread - and baking - have changed in those bars which only the locals know abouttwentieth and early twenty-first centuries. ItWe start with the basics - the equipment you'll need (there's nothing extravagant or indulgent) and the sort of food which you eat on the moveingredients, or leaning against where the bar - tables and chairs don't usually come into the equationauthor is particular. For You might not have realised that different salts can change the most part it doesn't aspire to being ''healthy'' - frying plays a larger part than it does in a virtuous diet flavour and it is a little short sensation on fruit and veg - the tongue of the finished product but we can all be a bit naughty on occasions, can't we?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1925418189</amazonuk>apparently, they do.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler1398508632|title=Gruffalo Crumble and Other Recipes|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=It is hard to imagine, but the original Gruffalo book came out almost twenty years ago. This is a franchise that just keeps rolling on. Certainly, you can buy the book or the sequel, but if you visit a shop you will find Gruffalo toys, cards, even egg cups. Each year brings with it a new idea of how to push the Gruf and pals. 2016 is the year of the recipe book, but will it live up to the quality of the original?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509804749</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Wilderness Cure|author=Joe Archer and Caroline Craig|title=The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook: Plant, Cook, EatMo Wilde

|genre=Children's Non-FictionLifestyle|summary=I grew up in It had been on the cards for a while but it was the immediate post war periodweek-long consumer binge which pushed Mo Wilde into beginning her year of eating only wild food. Growing your own vegetables The end of November, particularly in Central Scotland was perhaps not the best time to start, in a world where the normal sores had been a necessity in the war exacerbated by climate change, Brexit and it was still a habit for those who pandemic. Wilde had a bit of garden, so ''The Kew Gardens Children's Cookbook'' few advantages: the area around her was a real pleasure for me, as well as known habitat with a touch variety of nostalgiaterrains. The principle is very simple: show children how She had electricity which allowed her to grow their own vegetables run a fridge, freezer and then how to transform them into delicious fooddehydrator. It sounds simple, doesn't it? She had a car - and fuel. WellMost importantly, it might come as she had shelter: this was not a surprise, but it is!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0750298197</amazonuk>plan to ''live'' wild just to live off its produce.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amelia Freer1635864674|title=Cook. Nourish. Glow.Tomato Love: 44 Mouthwatering Recipes for Salads, Sauces, Stews, and More|author=Joy Howard

|summary=It''Think of it as no-whining dining.'' We know it's a fruit rather than a vegetable but the fact that so many people get confused just about a year since I read Amelia Freer's [[Eatgoes to show how versatile the tomato is. Nourish. Glow.: 10 easy steps for losing weight Then there are all the different types, looking younger not to mention the cultivars - and feeling healthier by Amelia Freer|Eatyou begin to understand why Joy Howard says that she hasn't met one she didn't love. Nourish. Glow.]], a book which quietly impressed me and which I hung on to (not something 'd argue with her there - I do regularly) and have referred back to many times no affection for inspiration and a quick boost to the spirit. Most of the principles behind ones you find in the book seemed sound, although I wasnsupermarket ''next''t prepared to go down the wheat-free road as Iones labelled 'grown for flavour've no reason to think distinguish them from the ones that have obviously just been grown for profit. Personally, I'm sensitive d prefer a tin of tomatoes to gluten those - and I do wonder how most Howard makes good use of the world would be fed if we all gave up eating wheat - but if I felt the book had a shortcoming, it was the lack of recipesthese. Well, thatShe's now been remediednot at all precious if you get the taste.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405924187</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lorraine Pascal0241480442|title=Eating Well Made EasyHealthy Vegan The Cookbook: Deliciously healthy recipes for everyone, every dayVegan Cooking Meets Nutrition Science|author=Niko Rittenau and Sebastian Copien

|summary=Emotionally, I am a vegan. Mentally, I am a vegan. I read [[:Category:Lorraine Pascal|Lorraine PascalHow to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance]] specialises and was appalled by the way in which we treat animals in no-nonsenseour search for (preferably cheap) food. Practically, simple recipes that provide delicious results; I am not a vegan. It worked for a speciality that has afforded her while apart from the odd blip with regard to cheese but then a deserved space perfect storm of those events which you hope don't occur too often in today's crowded celeb chef cultureyour lifetime tempted me back to animal-based protein. LorrainIt wasn's ethos 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 the ease of being able to get sufficient protein when meals were often snatched in ''Eating Well Made Easy'' is to provide recipes for everyone, encompassing vegetarians, allergy sufferers and those who just want something delicious, all with a healthy spinfew spare moments.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007489706</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marlena de Blasi1529418100|title=The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper ClubBruno's Challenge and Other Dordogne Tales|author=Martin Walker

|genre=BiographyShort Stories|summary= Author Marlena de Blasi lives in I'm not usually a fan of short stories - I find it all too easy to put the (as far as book down between stories and forget to pick it up again - but I can tell from having am a quick google), beautiful small Italian city fan of Orvieto – deep Martin Walker's [[Martin Walker's Commissar Bruno Courreges Mysteries in Chronological Order|Bruno Courreges Mysteries]] so the beautiful Umbrian countryside. Having lived there for some time, she gradually becomes aware of the Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club – a group of Italian ladies who meet once a week for supper, temptation to read ''Bruno's Challenge'' was hard to resist and to talkI'm rather glad that I didn't even try. Whilst it takes her some time, Marlena eventually manages For those new to be accepted into the groupseries, there's an excellent introduction that will tell you all you need to know about who's who and begins the background to cook and eat with these unique and fascinating ladies, sharing both tales of life, love, and death, and taking part why Bruno is in delicious home cooked mealsSt Denis. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954304</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr William Davis1787332098|title=Wheat Belly: The effortless health and weightHow to Love Animals in a Human-loss solution - no exercise, no calorie counting, no denialShaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=45|genre=LifestylePolitics and Society|summary=Dr William Davis poses an interesting question''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: why is it that people who are leading an active life cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and eating a healthy diet are putting so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on weight despite all their best efforts? He has a simple sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and worrying answer: wheatmillions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere, which he argues increases blood sugar more than table sugar'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series. The problem isn't restricted ' I was going to weight gainargue. I mean, either: therecows are for cheese (I couldn's evidence t consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to suggest that wheat affects psychosis animals - and autism tooI consider myself an animal lover. In fact - If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the more animals. I insisted that you I readthis book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the more you'll wonder if there's an organ in the body which ''isn't'' adversely affected by wheatdecision would not be comfortable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008118922</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maureen Abood0008333173|title=Rose Water and Orange BlossomsHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More|author=Grace Dent|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=I'm always relieved when Grace Dent is one of the judges on ''Rose Water and Orange BlossomsMasterchef'' began life as a blog. Maureen Abood grew up with flavours of the Lebanon around her - the scent of floral waters and cinnamon, lentils, bulgur wheat and yoghurt, but 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 all, the succulence of lambtime. She revisits the recipes which nourished her childhood, sometimes remaining faithful to the original, but occasionally giving them You also ponder on how she can look so elegant with all that good food in front of her personal twist. The whole family has contributed (even if not directly) to the food which she produces and sometimes the recipes have been handed down for generations, but itI's not just ve often wondered about the food which comes alive in her hands, but woman behind the media image and ''peopleHungry: A Memoir of Wanting More'' who come alive as is a stunning read which will make you readlaugh and break your heart in equal measures.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0762454865</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Amelia FreerTee_Gross|title=Eat. Nourish. Glow.: 10 easy steps for losing weight, looking younger This Cookbook is Gross|author=Susanna Tee and feeling healthierSanty Gutierrez

|genre=LifestyleChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Amelia Freer had struggled with her own health for The misuse of language is a while and modern disease. Too many times something is described as awesome or stupendous, but were you truly awed by it reached a stage where she was waking up feeling tired and groggy, relying on ten cups a day ? Or stupefied? People just seem to pluck words out of sugary tea to perk her up and her food was mainly processed convenience foods. At the time she was working as a PA to Prince Charles ether and loved the job but her busy life meant pretend that she made automatic food choices without consideration of what they were doing to her healthare the correct ones. It wasnAre the recipes in Susanna Tee and Santy Gutierrez't until she went to see a nutritionist that she realised what she had been doing and made s 'This Cookbook is Gross' truly gross? For once the decision language is not only to change her dietoverplayed. These recipes may taste nice, but to train to be a nutritionistin appearance, they are absolutely vile. The result is a busy practice - and this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000757990X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lani Kingston1848993609|title=How to Make CoffeeGood Mood Food: The Science Behind Unlock the BeanPower of Diet to Think and Feel Well|author=Charlotte Watts and Natalie Savona|rating=4.5

|summary=Have you ever caught I thought I was getting a cookbook: I liked the aroma idea of coffee brewing but when it came to that first sip the taste has been, well, distinctly underwhelming - and you might actually have preferred a glass series of water? recipes which would make me feel happy. Well, Lani Kingston has written For once this isn'How to Make Coffeet a case of ' which takes you from plant if it sounds too good to cupbe true, tells you how to make the perfect drink and explains the science behind it. Itprobably is' - it's a comprehensive book which gives you an overview case of the history of coffee, the areas in getting something which it originated and how it spread before moving on to an explanation of could change your life for the chemistry behind what is probably the world's favourite drinkbetter - for good - rather than a quick fix.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782402012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ella Woodward0241367875|title=Deliciously EllaCompletely Perfect: Awesome Ingredients, Incredible Food That You and Your Body Will Love120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook|author=Felicity Cloake|rating=45

|summary=Last year I had some health problems which caused me It's a novel concept for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found to take do a hard look at particular job - the job of delivering the best meal, the ''Completely Perfect'' meal of the way that I was eating: within a month or so I was feeling a lot better title. Think of it as the equivalent of a result of comparison site for when you want to renew the changes car insurance and six months on I can't imagine going back to then taking the way that I used best elements out of each recipe to eatmake perfection. But there was one snagThere's nothing cutting edge here: it's the sort of food which we seemed to be 've been eating the same few dishes most of the time for decades and I needed fresh inspirationprobably will be for decades to come. There's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble 'Deliciously Ella'works'' was the book everyone seemed to be talking about and with providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a few clicks vegan at table, it was on its way 's a meal which is unlikely to me from Amazondo other than go down well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444795007</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jennifer KlinecKay Vintage|title=The Temporary Bride: A Memoir of Love and Food in IranVintage Kitchenalia|author=Emma Kay

|genre=AutobiographyCookery|summary=Jennifer Klinec is Over the daughter of Hungarian immigrant parents who ran half-century and more that I've been preparing meals on a regular basis I've seen food preparation move from being just something you did to an automotive factory obsession akin to a religion. My first kitchen had nothing in southwest Ontario. She learned early on the way of luxury - it was there to be self-sufficientmake meals as nutritiously and economically as possible: my current kitchen is not ''quite'' state of the art, even enrolling herself in boarding schools in Switzerland and Dublin. After graduation she moved but it's equipped to London, made a pile as an investment banker, high standard and opened her own cookery schoolis a pleasure to work in. At age 31But what of all the equipment which went before, though, she decided which paved the way to travel what we have now? Emma Kay is going to give you a quick trip through the Iranian city of Yazd to learn Persian disheshistory. She met Vahid, 25, a military veteran with an engineering background, in a park and he introduced her to his mother for cooking lessons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1844088235</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fiona PearceJopson_Science|title=Treat PetiteThe Science of Food: 42 Sweet An exploration of what we eat and Savoury Miniature Bakeshow we cook|author=Marty Jopson|rating=4.5

|summary=I know 've always believed that theyif you understood ''why're not good for me, but I do love cakes. There's always so something worked in a particular way it was very easy to remember ''muchhow'' of them though - it worked and I'm not going what you needed to let them go to waste, am I? I love making them too, but do. The food we eat is no matter how hard I try they always seem exception to end up more Little Chef than Masterchef. When I found this rule and ''Treat PetiteThe One Show'' it seemed that I just might have found resident scientist Marty Jopson has undertaken to explain how things work in the kitchen - and he covers everything from the answer type of knives we use through to my prayersthe food of the future. It's a book Best of forty two recipes for tiny petit foursall, little sponge cakes, jewel-he does it in language that even a science illiterate like macaroons and gorgeous savouries. They're all mere morsels - just big enough to pop into your mouthme can understand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400982</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Neil DaveyHayward New|title=The BlufferJuan Altamiras's Guide to Chocolate (BlufferNew Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Guides)Kitchen Notebook|author=Vicky Hayward

|summary=I've always been In 1745 a little bit nervous about Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''BlufferNew Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience'' series. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on the basis that I would be sure occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford to come out cook on a grand scale, but at those with a clever-sounding phrasemore modest budgets, only who sometimes needed to be found out when someone asked cook for large numbers. Whilst the followingredients were -up questionfor the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromas. Better, I thought to stay silent Spices are used conservatively and appear ignorant than to open my mouth the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and prove myself a fool. But then we see influences from Altamiras''The Bluffer's Guide to Chocolate'' came my way own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and I couldn't resist - any more than I've ever been able to resist chocolatethe New World.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937045</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel KhooFederman_Fasting|title=My Little French KitchenFasting and Feasting - The Life of Visionary Food Writer Patience Gray|author=Adam Federman

|summary=France is Rachel Khoo's adopted countryFor more than thirty years, Patience Gray--author of the celebrated cookbook Honey from a Weed--lived in a remote area of Puglia in southernmost Italy. She lives lived without electricity, modern plumbing, or a telephone, grew much of her own food, and gathered and ate wild plants alongside her neighbours in Paris this economically impoverished region. She was fond of saying that she wrote only for herself and her friends, yet her growing reputation brought a steady stream of international visitors to write this book her door. This simple and isolated life she travelled chose for herself may help explain her relative obscurity when compared to the four corners other great food writers of the country to sample the local dishes and special ingredients to be found thereher time: M. F. K. It's a look at local marketsFisher, shopsElizabeth David, villages and townsJulia Child. So it is not surprising that when Gray died in 2005, farms and homes - and the local customs BBC described her as an ''almost forgotten culinary star.'' Yet her influence, particularly among chefs and quirks to be found in each area. You get over other food writers, has had a hundred recipes lasting and plenty of images which set profound effect on the scene or illustrate the finished dish. In more complicated dishes you even get a series of pictures to help you understand what you're doing - way we view and celebrate good food and all the pictures are of excellent qualityregional cuisines. ItGray's not just a coffee table book prescience was unrivalled: She wrote about what today we would call the Slow Food movement-- if you've an interest in French cooking then you're going from foraging to get eating locally--long before it sauce splatteredbecame part of the cultural mainstream.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718177479</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jackie AlpersMordechai_Simple|title=Sprinkles! Recipes Simple Fare: Spring and Ideas for Rainbowlicious DessertsSummer|author=Karen Mordechai|rating=34

|summary=A friend had taken his granddaughter for Karen Mordechai's family history has its roots in the Jerusalem of the 1950s when people from around the globe were coming together in a picnic young country and he'd gone forming their own way of living. When the family then emigrated to town on the United States they brought this way of cooking with them, along with the tradition of sharing and enjoying food. The pudding was decorated but the child seemed distracted: Child: Grandad, thereMordechai believes that food's an insect in my pudding. Grandad: No, darling - they're called 'hundreds ability to bring people together is unparalleled and thousands' and they're there to that the food you make your pudding look prettyis a compilation of the way you have lived. Child: GrandadThinking back over the food we eat, one of my hundreds that is so true and thousands is climbing up for the side first time, I looked on a recipe book as an elegant way of the bowl..seeing someone else's history.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746389</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Maria Del Mar Sacasa and Tara StrianoMiller_Five|title=Winter CocktailsFive Ways to Cook Asparagus (and Other Recipes): Mulled Ciders, Hot Toddies, Punches, Pitchers, the Art and Cocktail Party SnacksPractice of Making Dinner|author=Peter Miller|rating=3.5

|summary=I nearly didn't read this book - When you''cocktails'' are not something which appear in our house - but fortunately I had ve been producing meals for around about half a look at century the subtitle and realised chances are that mulled ciders, hot toddieslike me, punches and pitchers appealed you have a great deal morefairly regular set of menus which you produce. IHopefully, it'm never averse to something warm and reviving after being out s not quite in the winter cold. Even better 'fishcakes! Goodness is the fact that it all comes Friday already?' realm but you probably have something in your culinary locker for every occasion. It takes a wellvery 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-presented, hardback book eared pages for recipes which will stand a lot you're going to try. The inspiration to read ''Five Ways to Cook Asparagus'' was simple and serendipitous - I'd just come home with the first of duty the season's English asparagus when the book arrived in the kitchenpost.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746419</amazonuk> I couldn't ''not'' have a look, now could I?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nigel SlaterKunin_Good|title=Eat Good Clean Food: Plant- The Little Book of Fast FoodBased Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best|author=Lily Kunin|rating=4.5

|summary=In my kitchen thereI've got to begin by outlining a bias: I don't like food fads. There's a battered (in both senses of the word) copy of very good reason for avoiding gluten if you are coeliac, but if it's simply a food choice then you make life more difficult for people who 'Real Fast Food'must', Nigel Slater's first bookavoid gluten. Twenty one years later heThe same point applies to a lot of other food 'intolerances's revisited the idea and given us . 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'Eat: The Little Book re empty calories and after a couple of Fast Foodweeks without them I discovered that I don't actually like the taste. I don't touch caffeine and haven't done so since I discovered what it did to my blood pressure. Now itHaving said all this, I'm quite happy to read books which ''s do'small' as any book containing over six hundred ideas for dinners advocate avoiding certain food groups, simply because (complete with lots of excellent photographs by Jonathan Lovekina) can there ''might'' be small - something in it and (b) people who've had to the food is fast in the sense that you're talking about inventive to create a maximum of an hour, although occasionally the cooking takes longervaried diet with restricted ingredients often come up with some excellent recipes. And that was how Icame to ''m glad that weGood Clean Food're moving away from the idea 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 one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007526156</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul HollywoodYang_Food|title=Paul Hollywood's BreadA Food Guide to Lowering Blood Pressure: How to make great breads into even greater meals6 Simple Steps|author=Yuchi Yang|rating=54

|summary=It was Yuchi Yang has been a happy accident which started me watching Paul Hollywoodregistered dietitian for over twenty years and she's television series about bread and baking - and it quickly became compulsive viewing. We were predisposed allowing us the benefit of her knowledge to help us to the basic idea as itreduce our blood pressure ''without''s many years since we last bought a loaftaking medication, but wealthough she does stress that if you ''are'' taking medication you shouldn've always used a bread-makert stop doing so without consulting your doctor. The results have been good and far better than anything you could buy anywhere but an artisan bakeryYou can reduce your BP in six steps, but there which are limitations as to what you can makeactually a lot simpler than they sound. Does it work? Yes, it does: I was tempted to see what else we could achieve 've been eating this way for more than two years and whilst the television series didnI't promise that it would be ve gone from having 'very worrying'easyblood pressure readings to getting a smile when they'' it did leave me with confidence re taken and being told that my BP is perfectly normal - and that we could do ''better''. Buying the book was the next steps without taking medication of any sort.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408840693</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Coker and Jane Montgomery Bacchia_Italian|title=The Vegetarian PantryItalian Street Food|author=Paola Bacchia

|summary=Chloe Coker and Jane Montgomery aren't strict vegetarians, but they Books about Italian food are ''passionate about fresheverywhere, healthywith recipes for pizza, seasonal, meat-free cookingpasta dishes and all the usual suspects.'' A shared frustration about being unable In a winter which seems to be starting hard all too early what I wanted was sunshine - and the sort of food which you find on the inspiration Italian streets and ideas they wanted led to this book, with its recipes in those bars which will appeal to everyone from strict vegetarians to meat eatersonly the locals know about. Reassuringly theyIt're not out to convert anyone s the sort of food which you eat on the move, or leaning against the bar - just to give some inspiration, particularly to people who haventables and chairs don't tried this type of food beforeusually come into the equation. Some recipes are suitable for vegans (or For the most part, it doesn't aspire to being ''healthy'' - frying plays a larger part than it does in a virtuous diet and it is a little short on fruit and veg - but we can all be easily adapted) and theya bit naughty on occasions, can're clearly marked, as are those suitable for people with a gluten intolerance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184975344X</amazonuk>t we?