Vegetarian with a Vengeance by Christine Bille Neilsen – review
I am not a vegetarian but I am a lover of good food. Vegetarian with a Vengeance is a full-colour cookbook with a slightly different...
Favourite Mince Recipes by Lee Blaylock – review
So many of us were brought up on mince. Grey and unappetising for school dinners, and brown and unappetising at home. Little imagination was given...
Leith’s Meat Bible by Max Clark and Susan Spaull – review
This is a sizeable tome for those committed carnivores who are truly interested in their food. Leith’s Meat Bible is a one-stop book for the...
At Elizabeth David’s Table – Her very best everyday recipes – review
She was and still is one of our most celebrated food writers. Her first book was published in 1950 in those dark days after the...
Raghu Rai’s Delhi – book review
Raghu Rai may not be a name familiar to you unless you are a photography professional. He has, however, had a career which has been...
Japanese Home Cooking with Master Chef Murata – review
You probably won’t recognise the name of the chef unless you are reading this in Japan. It’s no surprise, but our ignorance has everything to...
Biscotti by Mona Talbott and Mirella Misenti – review
Biscotti are cookies, cookies are biscuits and biscuits are biscotti unless you are from the US where a biscuit is a scone …if you are...
The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit – review
This is surely a prize-winner among this year’s food-related books. One would think that it would be a dry and worthy tome. The sort that...
The Yogurt Cookbook by Arto der Haroutunian – review
Arto der Haroutunian died too young. His books have become collector’s items but thanks to Grub Street we can all have access to his collections...
Cinnamon Kitchen – The Cookbook by Vivek Singh – review
Cinnamon Kitchen is another of the restaurants in chef Vivek Singh’s empire. Cinnamon Club in Westminster has long been the classy and dark-polished-wood Indian restaurant...
Leon – Naturally Fast Food by Henry Dimbleby – review
Leon restaurant was founded by Henry Dimbleby, John Vincent and the celebrated cook Ellegra McEvedy. They wanted to open a fast-food restaurant that you would...
The Great British Book of Baking – cookbook review
This book goes right into my end-of-year Top Ten cookbook reads for 2010. No deliberation and no waiting in case another contender floats through the...
Ching’s Chinese Food in Minutes by Ching-He Huang – review
Heat magazine proclaims “Ching-He Huang is the new face of Chinese cooking”. Fresh-faced and youthful, Ching already has, however, a good few years of successful...
India – The Ultimate Sights, Places, and Experiences – book review
India is large, colourful, and sumptuous, and any other superlatives you care to mention. It’s a luxurious encyclopaedia of the subcontinent and covers pretty much...
The Sari by Mukulika Banerjee – review
This wasn’t, to be honest, what I expected. It has a bright and evocative picture on the front cover but this isn’t a book about...
Eating Korean by Celia Hae-Jin Lee – review
Food isn’t just about nourishment. It’s not just about flavour. It can more be described as a delicious (mostly) conduit for memories and tradition. We...
Quick and Easy Korean Cooking by Celia Hae-Jin Lee – review
Korean food has a place in America’s restaurant and recipe book pantheon but it’s a newcomer on the European food scene. There are more and...
Easy Japanese Cooking – Appetizer Rex by Kentaro Kobayashi – review
The author, Kentaro Kobayashi, is a young man with both talent and passion. He started his working life as an illustrator but soon displayed his...
Food of Japan by Shirley Booth – review
It’s the winner of a Japan Festival Award ‘for outstanding achievements in furthering the understanding of Japanese culture in the United Kingdom’ in 2000. In...
Japanese Cooking – A Simple Art, by Shizuo Tsuji – review
The world is shrinking and more of us than ever have taken advantage of travel opportunities. We move with ease around the globe and adopt...