Terre A Terre – The Vegetarian Cookbook by Amanda Powley – review
I do rather worry when I am presented with a vegetarian cookbook. So many of them in the past have been unappealing to all but...
The Bazaars of Istanbul by Isabel Bocking – review
Many thousands of tourists visit Turkey every year. They bask on the beaches, perhaps hire a boat for a holiday afloat and enjoy grilled fish...
The Soup Book – cookbook review
It seems to come around faster every year. Winter, that is. Should I bracket that along with policemen looking younger and Arial 10-point computer typeface...
Game – A Cookbook by Trish Hilferty – review
Yes, dear reader, I know that your natural inclination is to scroll on by this review because you will assume this book isn’t for you....
Feast Bazaar by Barry Véra – review
I am not a lover of any particular ethnic cuisine. I have no national preferences. It’s all about taste. I do, however, find myself drawn...
The Golden Book of Cookies – cookbook review
It’s that time of year again when we start to think about heavy-duty cooking and baking for friends and family. We plan the Thanksgiving menu...
Style Me Vintage by Betty Blythe – review
The author of this marvellously ‘vintage’ volume is actually Lulu Gwynne rather than Betty Blythe as one assumes from the cover. Betty was a sexy...
Food Network Favorites – cookbook review
Ahhh, those were the days when I could sit and watch American TV all day long. Hundreds of channels and about a dozen that any...
500 Red Wines and 500 White Wines – reviews
Life was easier back then. A bottle of sherry for Christmas or when the vicar was coming to tea, some brown ale for dad on...
A History of Food by Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat – review
This book should be republished and retitled THE History of Food. It’s probably the most remarkable book on the subject I have ever had the...
Easy Baking by Australian Women’s Weekly – review
This is one of a series of slim volumes with large page format from Australian Women’s Weekly (see more here). This is a publisher whose...
Bake me I’m Yours – Chocolate by Tracey Mann – review
Bake me I’m Yours – Chocolate: you have gotta love a book with a title like that. It’s an attention-grabber but it’s what’s between the...
Route 66 Backroads by Jim Hinckley – review
This is your essential guide to “scenic trips and adventures from the Mother Road”. That’s what it says and I believe it. This is a...
Diabetes Recipes from Around the World by Jane Frank – review
Approximately 200 million people worldwide suffer with diabetes and there are millions more who have diabetes but are not yet aware of it. It’s an...
LA’s Original Farmers Market Cookbook by JoAnn Cianciulli – review
This is one of those cookbooks that gives a warm glow. You don’t have to be from LA. You don’t even have to be American...
One Pot of Jam from Your Microwave by Sonia Allison – review
Foulsham & Co. might not be the largest cookbook publisher around but they present some of the best small one-topic books. I have reviewed several...
A Passion for Potatoes by Paul Gayler – review
I have only ever met one person who doesn’t like potatoes. What is not to like! They have a mild taste, come in different colours,...
What’s for Dinner? by Romilla Arber – review
I try and be a polite considerate reviewer, ever mindful of the needs of my discerning reader. I tend to avoid authors from non-catering backgrounds...
Caribbean Food Made Easy by Levi Roots – review
Levi Roots (his real name is Keith Graham) was brought up till the age of eleven by his grandparents in Jamaica. He lived in a...
World Whisky by Charles Maclean – review
Who knew? There are many hundreds of whiskies. I had suspected that there might be perhaps a hundred from small distilleries in Scotland and Ireland...