Decadent Cookbook by Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray – review
The Decadent Cookbook is by Medlar Lucan and Durian Gray – I kid you not! I am sure the authors are grateful to Alex Martin...
Four Seasons Cookery Book by Margaret Costa – review
Four Seasons Cookery Book is a classic and enjoying a revival, although, truth to tell, it has never been out of favour with lovers of...
Gorgeous Cakes by Annie Bell – review
Annie Bell has got to be one of the finest food writers around and Chris Alack, one of the best photographers. This was always going...
India by Footprint – Annie Dare and David Stott – review
If you are about to go off to India then buy this book. Buy this book and read the first 80 or so pages before...
Seasonal Home Cooking by Bridget Jones – review
This is a sumptuous, large-format book. The pages are spacious and colourful with some of the best quality photographs around. There are more than 300...
Knife Skills by Marcus Wareing – review
This is a “must have” book for anyone who is serious about cooking. It isn’t just for wanabe chefs but for all of us who...
Healthy Indian Cooking for Diabetes by Sanjeev Kapoor – review
Now, don’t just scroll to the next review! Have a read and understand that this isn’t a book for people with diabetes but a book...
Keeping Bees and Making Honey by Alison Benjamin – review
This isn’t a cookbook but a very informative volume telling us about where we get honey and how we get honey. A substance that’s not...
500 Barbecue Sizzlers by Paul Kirk – review
The weather is getting warmer and a young man’s fancy turns to…the barbecue! Why should the blokes have all the fun, so I say this...
The Sweet Life by Antony Worrall Thompson – review
The Sweet Life by Antony Worrall Thompson has arrived just at the right time. I make no apologies for being enthusiastic about a book that...
Eat Yourself Smart by Charlie Ayers – review
“Chef Charlie’s delicious nourishing cuisine was the secret sauce behind Google’s early success” says David Vise, author of The Google Story. Well, that set the...
Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts by Peggy Fallon – review
Ooooh, I love this book. I could quite happily eat my way through each and every one of Peggy Fallon’s gorgeous desserts! Dan Kartong, 1978...
The Cocktail – 200 Fabulous Drinks by Jane Rocca – review
Ths is Sex in the City for cocktail sippers! It’s this year’s book for girls to give their girlfriends. It’s frilly, fluffy, gorgeous and a...
Vegetarian Dishes from the Middle East by Arto der Haroutunian – review
First published in 1983, Vegetarian Dishes from the Middle East is a classic and I am so pleased to see its re-introduction. It’s a book...
Authentik Gourmet Guides – London and Paris
These Gourmet Guides are quite exceptional little books. Small in format, I should say, but full of the most useful information sufficient for any enthusiastic...
Wine Travel Guide to the World by Robert Joseph – review
This is yet another Footprint guide and it’s well up to the standard of their regular travel books, but this one is rather unique. It’s...
Gourmet Cornwall by Carol Trewin – review
This is another from that marvellous collaboration of Alison Hodge Publishing, author Carol Trewin and photographer Adam Woolfitt. This book is of the same glossy...
Beans – A History by Ken Albala – review
I was expecting a pamphlet. What is there to say about beans? Well, lots and it’s much more interesting than I had supposed. The author,...
Essential Scottish Cookery by Carol Wilson – review
We hear so much about the Scots’ passion for deep-fried chocolate bars and not nearly enough about the wealth of fine food that represents the...
Simply Lebanese by Ina’am Atalla – review
This is a wonderful and well-designed book on Lebanese cuisine. It has plenty of pictures in both colour and sepia. The recipes have lots of...