How to raise a loaf and fall in love with sourdough
Has it something to do with the lockdown? Seems like everybody is baking and a few are showing off their latest sourdough loaf. There is...
On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen
On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen is the long-awaited cookbook from Chef Jeremy Fox. He is the chef’s chef who has a reputation...
Grow Fruit & Vegetables in Pots: Planting Advice & Recipes from Great Dixter
We live in strange times and just now gardens are more important than ever. Grow Fruit & Vegetables in Pots: Planting Advice & Recipes from...
Courgette, Red Pepper & Feta Muffins
Courgette and Peppers to Tickle the Taste Buds from Burpee Seeds Europe Not only does growing your own bring you a sense of achievement and...
Cooking in Marfa: Welcome, We’ve Been Expecting You
That’s quite a title – Cooking in Marfa: Welcome, We’ve Been Expecting You. Marfa sounds like it could be a Mediterranean island with sun-kissed beaches...
Dishing it Up: The Story Behind Twenty Icons of French Food & Drink
Dishing it Up: The Story Behind Twenty Icons of French Food & Drink is by one of my favourite food writers. Paola Westbeek isn’t French,...
Signature Dishes That Matter
Signature Dishes That Matter? Well, that is a title to fill one with expectations. This is an imposing tome with a substantial hard white cover...
China – A Cookbook
Here is a real winner of a cookbook from Lorenz Books, and it would make the perfect gift for any Chinese food lover! China...
Market Kitchen Cookbook – review
If you are an avid UK food TV viewer then you will no doubt have watched Market Kitchen. It’s the food magazine programme that took...
How to Drink Gin
How to Drink Gin! That’s a curious name for a book, isn’t it? One would think it’s a simple process. Step 1 – Fill glass...
My Winter Kitchen: Warming Recipes for the Coldest Month
What a great little book. My Winter Kitchen: Warming Recipes for the Coldest Months is a book for cooks. Its small format makes it ideal...
The Whisky Dictionary: An A–Z of whisky, from history & heritage to distilling & drinking
The Whisky Dictionary, or to give this book its full title – The Whisky Dictionary: An A–Z of whisky, from history & heritage to distilling...
Brockmans gin book
The Black Book of Gin Cocktails is by Brockmans who distil, in my opinion, one of the best gins … and there are a lot...
Feast of the Seven Fishes
Did you ever watch the movie ‘Moonstruck’ with Cher? It’s one of my top ten films of all time. Much of the action is set...
Champagne: Wine of Kings and the King of Wines
Champagne: Wine of Kings and the King of Wines by Tom Bruce-Gardyne introduces the reader to the colourful story of how this delicious sparkling wine...
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...
Discovering the Orient
Chinatown in Soho London throngs with tourists and locals every day of the week. This isn’t, however, the first Chinatown in London. The original Chinese...
The Lake District with Marco Polo
Holidays in the UK are becoming more popular. The shrinking pound has perhaps encouraged people to look at what England has to offer. The Lake...
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...