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...
Tea and Crumpets by Margaret M Johnson – review
Well, the name ‘Tea and Crumpets’ is tempting but add a subtitle of Recipes and Rituals from European Tearooms and Cafés, and my attention is...
The Eastern and Oriental Cookbook by Will Ricker – review
The Eastern and Oriental Cookbook: nice name for a cookbook. It has an almost old-fashioned ring to it. Hints of The Orient Express, perhaps the...
Backroads of the California Coast by Karen Misuraca – review
It’s a change to write a travel book review about a place to which I have been. California held much promise and did not disappoint....
The Cook’s Guide to Meat by Jennie Milsom – review
This is the second book in the new Apple Press series of Cooks Guides, which it has been my pleasure to review, the first being...
World Cheese Book by Juliet Harbutt – review
It’s days like this when I think that being a cookbook reviewer is the most marvellous occupation. I have been presented with 350 or so...
Sicilian Food by Mary Taylor Simeti – review
Originally published in 1989 it was out of print for ten years or so. This new edition reminds us why Sicilian Food has been considered...
Guinness by Paul Hartley – review
Paul Hartley has penned several brand cookbooks including the Lyles Golden Syrup Cookbook and the HP Sauce Cookbook (both reviewed on this site), Marmite Cookbook...
500 Casseroles and Stews by Rebecca Baugniet – review
You must by now, assuming you are a regular reader, know how much I enjoy this 500 series from Apple Press. These chunky little volumes...
The Cook’s Guide to Fish and Seafood by Wendy Sweetser – review
I see many cookbooks every week and hundreds every year. Most are very nice, some are inspiring, there are a few that would be better...
Paul Gayler’s Little Book of Ice Creams and Sorbets – review
Paul is the chef at the Lanesborough Hotel in London. It’s considered a “Destination” hotel and has a restaurant to match that status. This man...
The Cuisines of Spain by Teresa Barrenechea – review
It’s the third largest country in Europe and has strong historic links to North Africa. It faces both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, has mountain...