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
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
Madison quietly set about creating a revolution in vegetarian cooking at Greens restaurant in San Francisco; she'd also done time at Chez Panisse. First published in 1987, this excellent boo... read more
There are 50,000 different edible plants in the world yet only 15 of them make up 90% of our staples... Informative and full of excellent vegetarian recipes contributed by many well known na... read more
Ortolans ahoy! A new edition of AJL's memoir of year spent feasting in Paris in the 1920s. His grande bouffe was determined and purposeful; the quantities of dishes eaten at a sitting bring ... read more
For those who would sell their soul for an éclair. Mille-feuilles for autumn, croissants for Sunday mornings, crêpes for tea, cakes and puddings so sublime your hips will forgive you.
The man behind Soho's Quo Vadis is Jeremy Lee and here is his long-awaited cookbook... filled with characteristic and contagious ebullience, heavenly writing, darts of wit and delicious reci... 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
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
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
What to do with all that extra starter? The queen of sourdough baking extends her realm - brioche, millefeuille, morello cherry shortbread... Her first book, The Sourdough School (£25), has... read more