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.
The Beppina of the title was the author of a bundle of hand-written recipes found in an old Italian cookery: "a microcosm of the culinary taste of the Aretine upper middle-class during the B... read more
Quick and easy, bang it into the oven... Iyer is beloved by younger, less confident cooks, and does what she does very well. This is her third roasting tin installment.
A funny, self-deprecating memoir of living in Lyon (the lodestar of budding cooks), learning the ropes chez la Mere Brazier and the Institut Bocuse. The title does not refer (as far as we kn... read more
Elena Zelayeta, a blind chef born in Mexico; Marcella Hazan, whose book on Italian cooking is still monumental; Norma Shirley's take on Jamaican cuisine et al: a joyous celebration of these... read more