Her first book in a decade sees the wonderful SG moving to southern Italy, using food as a route to understanding the culture, history and geography of the region.
A weird banquet of culinary superstitions: throwing salt over your left shoulder after a spill, witches using eggshells as boats, the devil getting the blackberries, etc.
Wildly delicious, deliciously straightforward - a celebration of good ingredients, sluiced with new olive oil and nipped with a pinch of salt...The beautiful farmhouse of Arniano - Amber's f... read more
Gloriously funny memoir by a Minnesotan food writer about moving to an unpretentious village in the Languedoc with his wife and two aghast children. Hoffman has previously won the James Bear... read more
Cooking as an act of love, in a hundred recipes: for self, family and friends, as well as for driving love objects wild. Like Norman Douglas in his aphrodisiac Venus in the Kitchen, McAlpine... read more
Ruthlessly funny memoir of working front of house: the great deception of ease, of luxe, calme et volupte , of lamplight and conversation, while, behind the swing doors, rages a very differe... read more
Charming picture book about gardens around the world, growing fruit and vegetables and recipes for youngsters, by the same author/illustrator who did Lunch at 10 Pomegranate Street. Ages 5-... read more
Pleasing recipes arranged seasonally, with half a dozen principal ingredients each quarter. This book has evolved out of Vaughan's monthly columns for House & Garden magazine.
Patrick Leigh Fermor held that baroque architecture in Italy could never have existed without pasta in all its multitudinous and beguiling forms... Drawing on a decade and a half of living i... read more
M.F.K. Fisher is, in our opinion, the greatest and most entertaining writer about food there has ever been - but we are far from alone in this. A wonderful reprint.