Glorious Game
Glorious Game by the celebrated Face Publications is well up to their very high and exacting standards. It is a substantial tome in full colour...
The Island Kitchen: Recipes from Mauritius and the Indian Ocean
Oh, deep joy! It’s summer at last and I think I have found my cookbook of the year …and it’s still only July! Every page...
Big Chef Mini Chef
Big Chef Mini Chef – Cooking for Kids with Kids is a book stuffed with joy and inspiration. Yes, the star of the volume is...
Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen
Well, here is a rather interesting cookbook! It has hints of familiar cuisines but Mandalay: Recipes and Tales from a Burmese Kitchen offers a delicious...
The Turkish Cookbook
Turkish food has been popular for decades and that love has increased over the past years as more holiday-makers have been heading to those sun-kissed...
Tu Casa Mi Casa: Mexican Recipes for the Home Cook
Tu Casa Mi Casa: Mexican Recipes for the Home Cook is a gorgeous volume of Mexican recipes from the internationally celebrated chef Enrique Olvera. He...
Rosa’s Thai Café – The Vegetarian Cookbook
Rosa’s was the original name of an empty caff which Saiphin Moore and her husband turned into their first restaurant. Saiphin is Thai and has...
Bangkok Thai: The Busaba Cookbook
Busaba presents modern Bangkok dining, with a dozen or so restaurants around Greater London. Having opened its first restaurant on London’s Wardour Street in 1999,...
Vegetable Cakes
I have just returned from a trip to delicious Thailand. There were curries, refreshing and spiced salads, and noodles aplenty. There were also desserts, and...
Rosa’s Thai Café – The Cookbook Review
I have just returned from Thailand where the flavours and indeed textures of that country’s vibrant cuisine reminded me how much I enjoyed those dishes...
The Mezze Cookbook: Sharing Plates from the Middle East
The Mezze Cookbook is a gift-quality volume which reflects how most of us eat… or would like to. There are 135 recipes suitable for the...
Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound
Sight Smell Touch Taste Sound: A New Way to Cook, by Sybil Kapoor, is a book that truly does awaken all the senses, and perhaps...
Chicken and Charcoal: Yakitori, Yardbird, Hong Kong
Chicken is the world’s best-loved meat. When I was a kid, many decades ago, we only had chicken on Sundays as a treat; these days...
The Halloumi Cookbook
The Halloumi Cookbook offers more than 60 delicious recipes taking advantage of this rather unique cheese. It’s popular with vegetarians and prized for its high...
The Book of Ices by Mrs. Agnes Marshall
This is a pleasure in pocket-size. A book on ices, but from an age when such things were sheer luxury, a holiday treat, and seldom...
The Indian Vegetarian Cookbook by Pushpesh Pant
The Indian Vegetarian Cookbook by Pushpesh Pant is a must-have tome from one of the most respected Indian food writers. It’s bound to spend more...
Aska
Aska is a stunning book from Phaidon Press. Aska has impact, beauty, charm and a great deal of imagination. This might not be the book...
Eating Well Everyday by Peter Gordon – book review
Peter Gordon was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia in 1981 and completed a four-year cookery apprenticeship. He worked in Melbourne restaurants for...
Aquafaba
This liquid called Aquafaba is trending just now. It’s being talked about by professional chefs as if it was a newly-discovered and exotic ingredient from...
Cuba: The Cookbook – review
Cuba: The Cookbook is a stunning volume from Phaidon, who are celebrated for publishing unique international recipe books to tempt and inspire the home chef....