Posts Tagged “cookbook”

Exploding Tomatoes and Other Stories

Exploding Tomatoes and Other Stories

The Food and Flavours of Southern Italy. We have watched Sophie Grigson, excited by her move from the UK to Puglia in Italy. Now that celebrated food writer is off on another adventure, and it’s a drive along the coastal ‘instep’ of southern Italy in her trusty purple car. In Exploding Tomatoes and Other Stories:…

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The Book of Pintxos

The Book of Pintxos

Discover the Legendary Small Bites of Basque Country. For the first time the recipes for pintxos, the small savoury and sweet dishes found in bars in the Basque country, are collected into one volume. The Book of Pintxos is an overview of Basque tapas. Author Marti Buckley is an American writer and chef from Alabama….

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The Vegetable Eater

The Vegetable Eater

The New Playbook for Cooking Vegetarian. Cara Mangini, award-winning author of The Vegetable Butcher, returns with The Vegetable Eater: The New Playbook for Cooking Vegetarian. This book offers simple lessons and 100 recipes that showcase vegetables. It offers inspirations for delicious, colourful and unique dishes for the whole family. We should all be eating more…

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Jang: The Soul of Korean Cooking

Jang: The Soul of Korean Cooking

Essential Sauces. This is a delightful cookbook offering more than 60 recipes featuring Gochujang, Doenjang, and Ganjang. These are Korea’s essential sauces, and Jang: The Soul of Korean Cooking showcases these in delicious fashion. In the first book on the subject in English, South Korea’s best chef shows readers how to cook with jangs –…

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Italian Coastal

Italian Coastal

Sunshine on a plate! It might be dull and chilly here, but Spring is just around the corner and we plan lighter and more colourful meals. Italian Coastal by Amber Guinness gives plenty of inspiration for Spring and Summer menu planning. Following on from the success of her first book, A House Party in Tuscany,…

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Jewish Holiday Table

Jewish Holiday Table

A World of Recipes, Traditions and Stories to Celebrate All Year Long. Food is an ice breaker. It’s comforting to enjoy food with friends, and The Jewish Holiday Table offers plenty of inspiration for delicious meals. Collected by the Jewish Food Society, an organization dedicated to preserving Jewish cuisine around the world, the 135 recipes…

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Generous Cookbook

Generous Cookbook

The St Columba’s Hospice Care Cookbook. Featuring over 35 delicious recipes from a wide range of celebrities and local chefs, Generous is a book to celebrate and inspire through the power of food. Published to raise awareness and funds for St Columba’s Hospice Care, Generous is about recognising the local people and hospitality industry in…

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Simply Tomato

Simply Tomato

100 Recipes for Enjoying Your Favorite Ingredient All Year Long. It’s summer (a coolish one for us in the UK) and tomatoes are at their best and cheapest. Simply Tomato: 100 Recipes for Enjoying Your Favorite Ingredient All Year Long will remind the home cook how versatile these fruits (yes, they are fruit) can be….

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Cook Colour

Cook Colour

A Rainbow of 100 Recipes. Cook Colour celebrates foods of every hue. It taps into that old but true adage of ‘one eats with one’s eyes.’ Colour is, after all, the first thing we notice about any dish. When we plan a dinner, we look for elements which will complement each other. We avoid platescapes…

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Savor the States

Savor the States

Inspiring ingredients. From the chilly waters of Alaska to the fertile soils of California, and from the coastal prairies of Louisiana to the New England mountain tops, America’s vast landscapes are packed with productive land and natural resources as well as the climates to support and nourish agricultural harvests. The United States is a major…

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New European Baking

New European Baking

99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries. It’s been a good couple of years for baking. The outside world has gone mad, but we have discovered we have a haven of tranquillity and delicious nostalgia in our own kitchens. New European Baking: 99 Recipes for Breads, Brioches and Pastries offers a taste of gentler times….

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Fast Family Food

Fast Family Food

Easy Meals for You and Your Baby Prepped in 10 Minutes. Rebecca Wilson an award-winning Sunday Times bestselling author, a successful Instagram contributor. She is also a busy mum who knows the value of less time in the kitchen. Fast Family Food: Easy Meals for You and Your Baby Prepped in 10 Minutes is her…

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Kinloch Lodge – The Cookbook

Kinloch Lodge – The Cookbook

50 Years on Isle of Skye. I have been reviewing books for almost two decades and I am almost sure that this is the first time reading a book that celebrates anything that has been in existence for five decades. Kinloch Lodge Isle of Skye has been around for half a century, but the eponymous…

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The Asian Home Kitchen

The Asian Home Kitchen

Fresh, vibrant dishes from Kuala Lumpur to Kyoto. Cookbooks are popular, but so many of us are looking for comprehensive content in one volume rather than having to buy a library of books. The Asian Home Kitchen by Leemei Tan-Boisgillot is the perfect volume for anybody wanting to learn to cook classic recipes from across…

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Very Hungry Greek

Very Hungry Greek

Who says healthy food has to be boring? Very Hungry Greek – an interesting title for a cookbook. I love Greek food …but wait, this isn’t a recipe book of Greek dishes, but rather a collection of celebrated recipes collated by the aforementioned hungry Greek, and she is called Christina Kynigos. The book offers 100…

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The Van Life Cookbook

The Van Life Cookbook

Recipes for home or away. Recipe books are great, but most of them are written with a proper kitchen in mind. The Van Life Cookbook recognises that not everybody has a fully fitted kitchen and those of us who do don’t have them all the time. These days space is at a premium. If we…

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Nachos For Dinner

Nachos For Dinner

Surprising Sheet Pan Meals the Whole Family Will Love. Nachos make a perfect starter or snack, we all know that, but we can also enjoy that layered concept for other occasions. Nachos For Dinner by Dan Whalen offers inspiration for sheet-pan meals. Think of a plate of nachos as a pile of delicious ingredients. Yes,…

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The Official Peaky Blinders Cookbook

The Official Peaky Blinders Cookbook

50 Recipes selected by The Shelby Company Ltd. Are you a fan of the Peaky Blinders? Yes? Well, you will likely love The Official Peaky Blinders Cookbook with 50 Recipes selected by The Shelby Company Ltd. There is something for everybody and I daresay many of these dishes will be consumed by diners dressed in…

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Gingerbread – Home for Christmas

Gingerbread – Home for Christmas

A wonderland of houses, creative constructions and cookies Gingerbread is a delightful festive presentation of 38 projects, gingerbread recipes and templates for creating beautiful centrepieces. The fairy tale ‘Hansel and Gretel’, in which the children discover a house made entirely of gingerbread, sweets and cake, inspired the trend for making beautiful constructions based on this…

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Family Comforts – Rebecca Wilson

Family Comforts – Rebecca Wilson

Simple, Heartwarming Food to Enjoy Together Family Comforts reflects how lots of us want to eat today. Those sought-after dishes need to be simple to prepare and they would be, for the most part, quick and practical. No chef skills required nor investment in costly equipment nor, most importantly, expensive ingredients. The dishes here are…

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