A cookbook for novices that began life as a primer for Clarke's student son. Full of good things, easily achieved, that will cheer the hesitant and their comrades at the table. Omelette with... read more
Over half a century of experience has gone into this new book from one of our greatest living food writers, cultural anthropologist and national treasure, who returns here to her chief love ... read more
Especially from the mountainous region of Northern Macedonia. Nitsou is Macedonian-Canadian, and grew up cooking with three generations of her family before Cordon Bleu training etc.
By an excellent and knowledgeable cook. Reminds us of a favourite customer who not infrequently scuds by to deposit incomparable baklava - fresh, not too sweet, fragrant, and by the kilo...
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
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.
First published in 1930, this is a compendium of old recipes from the American South, rather than Bloomsbury. Fascinating even if some of the ingredients will be hard to come by, at least in... read more
For a teetering moment we thought this might be about tea and tea alone - but no! There are also recipes for scones, Welsh cakes, tea truffles, Lapsang-smoked ribs, etc, washed down with Ear... read more
What poor RB got up to in lockdown, deprived of guests and colleagues at his beloved Le Manoir, and separated from his family: simple, cheering food that owes much to what he learned from hi... read more
Diacono is a serious gardener and nurseryman as well as a cook, so this has tips on propagation and storage as well as culinary uses. A really useful book for those who want fresh zingy flav... read more
This is worth including here just for its title, let alone what follows. Sandoe's is full of the tart, tender and unruly - books and, happily, staff too. Twenty-six essays on different frui... read more
Dill, pomegranates, zaatar, oregano, lemon...dishes from Greece, Cyprus and Turkey, gathered on Khan's extensive travels, that show how tastes, ingredients and recipes recognise no borders. ... read more
This is likely to be the closest we all get to a steaming bouillabaisse with rouille for some months yet... Genoa, Marseille, Valencia, what siren calls!
A caravan of vegetable dishes, mostly small and perfectly formed, from the head chef of the eponymous Bristol restaurant who won a Michelin star aged 21.
The beautiful open landscape of the Gironde estuary and two vineyards - Château Rauzan-Ségla (Margaux) and Chateau Canon (St Emilion) - are the subject of this lavish book. Patrick Messina... read more
Foraged cocktails - rummage in the back of your cupboard, select a suitably dusty bottle, add dandelions - beautifully shredded of course - a nip of horseradish and garnish with some zesty l... read more
Around the world in the company of a woman who sees feasts where others might see weeds or indiscriminate greenery. Identifications, recipes and lovely botanical illustrations. Meadowsweet b... read more
From bronze-age chopsticks, grain stews, the dawn of the dumpling in the C4th, and the astonishing super-abundance of rice feeding a vast population, to modern fast food in the Chinese diasp... read more
Adria is perhaps a surprising person to take us back to Flintstone cookery; an interesting exploration of the McLuhanesque relationship between pot and food.
The author lives in Tuscany and has been writing about Italian regional food for many years - and she is a purist, who doesn't believe in adding ricotta to every kind of ravioli, and underst... read more
CE is a lively companion, adventurous and hungry, as she takes us from the Caspian Sea to the Fergana Valley in eastern Uzbekistan. This is not a traditional cookbook and the recipes play se... read more
I had my first French meal and never got over it: a collection of Child's amiable witticisms and observations. "In department stores, so much kitchen equipment is bought indiscriminately by... read more
Natural selection and the table, served as a meal of several courses... beginning with oysters. Who knew of the role of mussels in the exodus of our ancestors from Africa? A fascinating and ... read more
The author of 'On Food and Cooking' has spent a decade thinking about the science behind smells. The result is a work of great scientific and historical scholarship, as well as being essent... read more
Vegetarian recipes from the cold north: Hahnemann is at the forefront of Danish cooking, with her eponymous company making about 3000 lunches a day in Copenhagen, sustainably. Somehow, in th... read more
A book by the founder of an international chain of restaurants that began in Sydney twenty years ago. Renowned for their fusion cooking, one landed in Pavilion Road a few years ago, and som... read more