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A Delicious Way to Earn a Living

A Food Lover’s Treasury

A Handful of Honey

A History of Food

A Kitchen Year

A Little Maple Syrup Cookbook

A New Taste of Galena

A Passion for Cheese

A Passion for Potatoes

An Indian Kitchen

Anissa’s Modern Mezze

An Omelette and a Glass of Wine

Anjum's New Indian

The Arab – Israeli Cookbook

The Art of Simple Food

A Summer in Gascony

A Table in the Tarn

A Year at Ballymaloe Cookery School

Authentik Gourmet Guides


Michael Bateman

Julie Rugg and Lynda Murphy

Annie Hawes

Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat

Paula McIntyre

Cynthia Cousins and Karen King

Various

Paul Gayler

Paul Gayler

Farida Khan

Anissa Helou

Elizabeth David

Anjum Anand

Robin Soans

Alice Waters

Martin Calder

Orlando Murrin

Darina Allen

William Skidelsky - London, Rosa Jackson - Paris









b Backroads of Arizona

Backroads of the California Coast

Backroads of New York

Backroads of North Carolina

Bake me I’m Yours – Chocolate

Ballymaloe Cookery Course

Bamboo – A Journey with Chinese Food

Beans – A History

Barbecue Road Trip

Best British Dishes

Best Salads Ever

The Bibendum Cookbook

The Big Book of Thai Curries

The Big Book of World Tapas

Black Pudding and Foie Gras

The Bollywood Cookbook

Bollywood Posters

The Branded Cookbook

Britain’s Best Dish

Brunch

Buonissimo!

Jim Hinckley

Karen Misuraca

Kim Knox Beckius

Kevin Adams

Tracey Mann

Darina Allen

Sally Hammond

Ken Albala

Michael Karl Witzel

Marguerite Patten

Sonja Bock and Tina Scheftelowitz

Terence Conran, Simon Hopkinson, Matthew Harris

Vatcharin Bhumichitr

Julia Hartley

Andrew Pern

Bulbul Mankani

Jerry Pinto

Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton

Various

Rachel Lee

Gino D’Acampo

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Calamity and Courage

Cardamom and Lime

Caribbean Food Made Easy

Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery

China to Chinatown

Chinese Cookery

Chinese Food Made Easy

The Chinese Kitchen

The Chopsticks Diet

The Cinnamon Club Cookbook

The City of London Cookbook

The Cocktail – 200 Fabulous Drinks

The Complete Asian Cookbook

Complete Indian Cooking

The Complete Robuchon

The Complete Route 66, Lost and Found

The Complete Traditional Recipe Book

The Connoisseur’s Guide to Herbs
The Connoisseur’s Guide to Oils,  Vinegars

The Connoisseur’s Guide to Tea

The Connoisseur’s Guide to Whisky

Contemporary Indian Cuisine

Cook Express

Cook in Boots

The Cooking Book

Cooking on The Bone

Cooking for Baby

Cooking for Coco

The Cook’s Guide to Meat

Cooking from the Heart of Spain

Cooking in a Bedsitter

Cooking with Booze

Cooking with Kids

The Cook’s Book of Everything

The Cook’s Guide to Fish and Seafood

Cook Yourself Thin

Cool Waters

Cornish Fishing and Seafood

Crust

Cucina Napoletana

The Cuisines of Spain

Culinary Jottings for Madras

Cupboard Love

Curry – Classic and Contemporary

Belinda Morse

Sarah al-Hamad

Levi Roots

Jane Grigson

J.A.G Roberts

Ken Hom

Ching-He Huang

Deh-ta Hsiung

Kimiko Barber

Vivek Singh and Iqbal Wahhab

Peter Gladwin

Jane Rocca

Charmaine Solomon

Meena Pathak

Joel Robuchon

Russell A. Olsen

Sarah Edington

Kathryn Hawkins


Jane Pettigrew

Helen Arthur

Anil Ashokan

Dorling Kindersley

Ravinder Bhogal

Victoria Blashford-Snell

Jennifer McLagan

Lisa Barnes

Siân Blunos

Jennie Milsom

Janet Mendel

Katherine Whitehorn

Ryan Jennings and David Steel

Erin and Tatum Quon

Lulu Grimes

Wendy Sweetser

Michael Joseph – Penguin

Brian Preston-Campbell

Carol Trewin

Richard Bertinet

Arturo Lengo

Teresa Barrenechea

Wyvern (A.R. Kenney-Herbert)

Laura Lockington

Vivek Singh

d Damascus – Taste of a City

The Dean and Deluca Cookbook

The Decadent Cookbook

Desserts

Diabetes Recipes from Around the World

Divine – Heavenly Chocolate Recipes with a Heart

Dough

Duchy Originals Cookbook
Marie Fadel and Rafik Scha

David Rosengarten

Medlar Lucan, Durian Gray

Rachel Lane and Ting Morris

Jane Frank

Linda Collister

Richard Bertinet

Johnny Acton and Nick Sandler

e The Eagle Cookbook

East Meets West

Easy Baking - Australian Womens Weekly

Easy Entertaining

Easy Indian Cookbook

Easy Japanese Cookbook

Easy Peasy

Eat Yourself Smart

Eating for Victory

The Edible Mushroom Book

Encyclopedia of Food and Cookery

The Essential Guide to London’s Best Food Shops

Essential Scottish Cookery

European Peasant Cookery

Every Day

David Eyre and The Eagle chefs

Various

Australian Women’s Weekly

Darina Allen

Manju Malhi

Emi Kazuko

Sophie Wright

Charlie Ayers

Ministry of Food with a forward by Jill Norman

Anna Del Conte and Thomas Læssøe

Margaret Fulton

New Holland

Carol Wilson and Christopher Trotter

Elisabeth Luard

Bill Granger

f Fabulous Food

The Fairtrade Everyday Cookbook

Family Meals for a Fiver

Fantastico - Modern Italian Food

The Farmer’s Wife Baking Cookbook
The Farmer’s Wife Cookie Cookbook

The Farmer’s Wife Cookbook

Fast
Fast Chicken
Fast Pasta

Fat Bloke Slims

Feeding the Gods

The Fifth Quarter

Fish Complete Fish & Seafood Companion

Fish Indian Style

Food in England

The Food and Wine Lover’s Guide to Portugal

Food GLorious Food

The Food Manual

The Food of Spain and Portugal

Forgotten Fruits

Fork to Fork

Food Network Favourites

Four Seasons Cookery Book

Fresh Eggs Don’t Float

The Frugal Cook

Sophie Michell

Sophie Grigson

The Good Housekeeping Institute

Gino d'Acampo

Lela Nagri


Martha Engstrom

The Australian Women’s Weekly



Bruce Byron

Chitrita Banerji

Anissa Helou

Mitch Tonks

Atul Kochhar

Dorothy Hartley

Charles Metcalf and Kathryn McWhirter

Patrick Holford and Fiona McDonald Joyce

Carina Norris

Elisabeth Luard

Christopher Stocks

Monty and Sarah Don

Various

Margaret Costa

Lara DePetrillo and Caroline Eastman-Bridges

Fiona Beckett


g Gale Gand’s Brunch

Garden Feast

The Gastropub Classics Cookbook

Gentleman’s Relish

The Golden Book of Chocolate

The Good Food Guide London

Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step

Good Old-Fashioned Jams, Preserves and Chutneys

The Good Pub Guide 2009

Gorgeous Cakes

Gorgeous Desserts

Gorgeous Greens

Gourmet Cornwall

Great British Cheeses

Great British Food

Great Party Dips

Green and Black’s Chocolate Recipes

The Great British Village Show Cookbook

Grown in Britain Cookbook

Grow Your Own Drugs

Guinness



Gale Gand

Melissa King

Trish Hilferty

The National Trust

Apple Press

Which?

Good Housekeeping Institute

Sara Paston-Williams

Alistair Aird and Fiona Stapley

Annie Bell

Annie Bell

Annie Bell

Carol Trewin

Jenny Linford

Various

Peggy Fallon

Caroline Jeremy

James Martin

Carolyn Humphries

James Wong

Wendy Sweetser

h The Hairy Bikers Ride Again

The Hairy Bikers Cookbook

Hamburger – A Global History

Handmade Breads

Healthy and Delicious

The Healthiest Meals on Earth

Healthy Indian Cooking for Diabetes

Historic Colorado

Historic Shops & Restaurants of New York

Home Baked

Home Made – Good Honest Food Made Easy

Homestyle Asian

Honey from Clova

Hot Dog – A Global History

How to Cook Everything

How to Cook for Food Allergies

How to Cook without Recipes

The HP Sauce Cookbook
The Hairy Bikers

The Hairy Bikers

Andrew F. Smith

Ciril Hitz

Reader’s Digest

Jonny Bowden

Azmina Govindji and Sanjeev Kapoor

Claude Wiatrowski

Ellen Williams and Steve Radlauer

George and Cecilia Scurfield

Tana Ramsay

Murdoch Books

Clova McQueen

Bruce Kraig

Mark Bittman

Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne

Glynn Christian

Paul Hartley

i Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts

In and Out of Africa

India

India Color

India Food and Cooking

India – One Man’s Personal Journey Round the Subcontinent

The Indian Kitchen
India’s Vegetarian Cooking

Indonesian Food

In Praise of Poteen

Irish Traditional Cooking

Istanbul – Globetrotter Travel Guide

Italian Ice Cream

I Was a Potato Oligarch


Peggy Fallon

Francis Gimblett

Annie Dare and David Stott

Mitchell Crites and Amita Nanji

Pat Chapman

Sanjeev Bhaskar

Monisha Bharadwaj


Sri Owen

John McGuffin

Darina Allen

Sue Bryant

Carla Bardi

John Mole


j James Every Day
James Martin Desserts

Jam with Lamb

Jamie at Home – Cook Your Way to the Good Life


Jams and Chutneys

Japan – Eyewitness Travel

The Japanese Kitchen
Japanese Pure and Simple

Jekka’s Complete Herb Book

The Jewish Princess Cookbook
The Jewish Princess: Feasts and Festivals

Jewish Traditions Cookbook
James Martin


Richard Guest

Jamie Oliver

Thane Prince

Dorling Kindersley

Kimiko Barber


Jekka McVicar

Georgie Tarn and Tracey Fine


Marlena Spieler


k Keeping Bees and Making Honey

Kids Parties

Kitchen Essays

Kitchen Knife Skills

Knife Skills

Korea

Korean Cuisine – An illustrated history

Kosher Cooking


Alison Benjamin and Brian McCallum

Lisa Atwood

Agnes Jekyll

Marianne Lumb

Various

Lonely Planet

Michael J. Pettid

Marlena Spieler


l LA’s Original Farmers Market Cookbook

Leaves from our Tuscan Kitchen

The Lebanese Cookbook

Lebanese Cuisine

Left for Dead in the Outback

The Legendary Cuisine of Persia

Lighten Up

The Lyle’s Golden Syrup Cookbook
JoAnn Cianciulli

Janet Ross and Michael Waterfield

Hussien Dekmak

Anissa Helou

Ricky Megee

Margaret Shaida

Jill Dupleix

Paul Hartley

m Made in Great Britain

Made in India

Making Fine Chocolates

Mary Berry - Desserts

Matt Tebbutt Cooks Country

Meeting the Medicine Men

The Mezze Cookbook

Middle Eastern Cookery

Mince!

Miniature Feasts

Misadventure in the Middle East

Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights

Miss Vickies Book of Pressure Cooker Recipes

Mix – Australian Woman’s Weekly

Momma Cherri’s Soul in a Bowl Cookbook

Moroccan Modern

Moveable Feasts

The Mushroom Feast

My Mercedes is Not for Sale


Aiden Byrne

Kalim Winata, Reed Darmon

Andrew Garrison Shotts

Mary Berry

Matt Tebbutt

Charles Langley

Maria Khalifé

Arto Der Haroutunian

Mitzie Wilson

Michael Harwood

Henry Hemming

Sophie Dahl

Vickie Smith

Australian Woman’s Weekly

Charita Jones

Hassan M'souli

Amy-Jane Beer and Roy Halpin

Jane Grigson

Jeroen van Bergeijk


n New Bistro

Nobody Does It Better

North African Cookery
Fran Warde

Trish Deseine

Arto der Haroutunian

o One Pot of Jam from Your Microwave

The Organic Pharmacy
Sonia Allison

Margo Marrone



p Pancake – A Global History

Party Time

Paul Gayler's Little Book of Ice Creams
Paul Gayler's Little Book of Pasta and Noodles
Paul Gayler’s Little Book of Salads

The People’s Cookbook

Pepper – The Spice that Changed the World

Persia in Peckham

Pickles, Relishes and Chutneys

Pie

Pie – A Global History

Pies Pies Pies

A Pike in the Basement

Preserved

The Press Club

Provence Cookery School

Pizza – A Global History

Pure Vegetarian
A Passion for Cheese
Ken Albala

Jane Price

Paul Gayler



Antony Worrall Thompson and Paul Rankin

Christine McFadden

Sally Butcher

Catherine Atkinson

Angela Boggiano

Janet Clarkson

Good Housekeeping

Simon Loftus

Nick Sandler and Johnny Acton

George Calombaris

Marie-Pierre Moine and Gui Gedda

Carol Helstosky

Paul Gayler


q Quick and Easy – Eating for One

Quick and Easy 20-minute Meals

Quick and Easy Low-Fat Cooking


Catherine Atkinson

Catherine Atkinson

Catherine Atkinson


r Raghu Rai's Delhi

Rajasthan – Lonely Planet

Real Flavours

Really Useful Ultimate Student Vegetarian Cookbook

Recipe Scrapbook

Ricelands – The World of South-East Asian Food

The Road to Vindaloo

The Rough Guide to Food

The Rough Guide to China

Route 66 Backroads



Raghu Rai

Lonely Planet

Glynn Christian

Helen Aitken

Caroline Brewester

Michael Freeman

Helen Saberi and David Burnett

Rough Guides

David Leffman, Simon Lewis

Jim Hinckley


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Sacred Sierra – A Year on a Spanish Mountain

Sauces Classical and Contemporary

Savoir Fare London

Seasonal Home Cooking

Seriously Good Gluten-Free Cooking

Shanghai

The Silver Spoon

Simple Pleasures

Simply Lebanese

Sicily – Culinary Crossroads

Sicilian Food

Sky High Triple-Layer Cakes

The Slow Cooker Cookbook

Slow Cooking  - Through the Seasons

The Slow Food Story

Spain Body and Soul

Spanish Cooking

Spice Market

Spicing Up Britain

Student Cookbook

Student Cookbook – Healthy Eating

Stylish Indian in Minutes

Stylish Thai in Minutes

Sunday Roast

Sushi

The Sweet Life


Jason Webster

James Peterson

Elaine Louie

Bridget Jones

Phil Vickery

Lonely Planet

Various

Stephanie Evans, Andrew Franks, Susanna Tee

Ina'am Atalla

Giuseppe Coria, Translated by: Gaetano Cipolla

Mary Taylor Simeti

Alisa Huntsman, Peter Wynne

Gina Steer

Carolyn Humphries

Geoff Andrews

H M van den Brink

Pepita Aris

Jane Lawson

Panikos Panayi

Sam Stern

Ester Davies

Monisha Bharadwaj

Vatcharin Bhumichitr

Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott

Vickie Liley

Antony Worrall Thompson

t Tapas

Tapas – A World of Flavours

Tarts and Pies

A Taste of China

Tasting Italy – A Culinary Journey

Tea – A Journey in Time

Tea and Crumpets

The Top 100 Healing Foods

Top 100 Low-Salt Recipes

Top 100 Omega-3 Recipes

Traditional Irish Cooking

Traditional Spanish Cooking

Traditional Teatime Recipes

Turkish Cooking

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Stars
Carlos Horrillo and Patrick Morcas

M Teresa Segura

Philippa Vanstone

Ken Hom

Alice Vollenweider

John Weatherspoon

Margaret M. Johnson

Paula Bartimeus

Christine Bailey

Penny Doyle and Audrey Deane

Andy Gravette and Debbie Cook

Janet Mendel

Jane Pettigrew

Tess Mallos

Gevase Phinn

u The Ultimate Garden Designer


Tim Newbury



v Vatch’s Thai Street Food

Vegetarian Cooking – A Commonsense Guide

Vegetarian Dishes from the Middle East

Veg – The Cookbook
Vatcharin Bhumichitr

Murdoch Books

Arto der Haroutunian

Gregg Wallace

w The Wagamama Cookbook
Wagamama – Ways with Noodles

What’s for Dinner?

What to Eat Now – More Please

Wine Travel Guide to the World

Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks

World Cheese Book

World Whisky

The World of Spice

The World’s Best Restaurants

World Vegetarian Classics

Hugo Arnold


Romilla Arber

Valentine Warner

Robert Joseph

Ruth Binney

Juliet Harbutt

Charles Maclean

Michael Bateman

Various

Celia Brooks Brown

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The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth

2008-2009 Pudlo France

500 Barbecue Sizzlers

500 Cakes

500 Casseroles and Stews

500 Cocktails

500 Cookies

500 Cupcakes and Muffins

500 Ice Creams and Sorbets

500 Juices and Smoothies

500 Pizzas and Flatbreads

500 Red Wines

500 White Wines

Jonny Bowden

Gilles Pudlowski

Paul Kirk

Susannah Blake

Rebecca Baugniet

Wendy Sweetser

Philippa Vanstone

Fergal Connolly

Alex Barker

Christina Watson

Rebecca Baugniet

Christine Austin

Natasha Hughes and Patricia Langton

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