Once you get the Chinese bug from this book it’s hard to stop. You’ll find yourself using it every night. It’s not often a cookbook is this good, this simple and this well produced for the money and it knocks many a posher production into a cocked hat. Well done our Ken and well done My Kitchen Table.
Figure Friendly Dishes for Girls on the Move
Author of 8 books and a long term food writer, stylise and food enthusiast, Joyce’s latest offering Skinny Meals in Heels is the lighter but equally sophisticated younger sister to her original book Meals In Heels.
London Oyster Guide
Forget the scare stories and cuddle up to an oyster or six, it’s one of life’s greatest eating pleasures and an example of how simple can so often be the very best. Lift the lid on a briny bivalve and tip it into your mouth, bite gently to release the flavour and then swallow. No, Stephen Fry did not say that, although he might.
Oxford Companion to Beer by Garrett Oliver
Garrett Oliver has gone where no man has gone before. He has formalised the world’s most informal drink. This is not a coffee table book or a gift idea for Uncle Kevin who loves his lager. This is a serious book about a serious business
Book Review of Hawksmoor at home
Big, bold and British, the new cookbook from the Hawksmoor is a joyous celebration of all that’s good about food.
Poulet: More Than 50 Remarkable Meals that Exalt the Honest Chicken: Cree La Favour
With 160 recipes gathered into 55 recipe sets, the pages on cooking met all my needs, plenty of variety and plenty of multi-cultural flavours as befits a bird that is globally ubiquitous. Mulligatwany with Onion Flatbread, Crispy Roast Chicken with Watercress Vinaigrette, and Jerk Thighs with Jamaican Peas are just a few that spring from the page.
Tasting India Christine Mansfield
We often hear that recipe books are dead and that everyone goes online to find recipes now. Well this book is a counter-argument to that, offering you something beyond mere information, but instead a tangible sensory experience too, a feast for the eyes, a tactile treat and something to curl up in a chair with. Just make sure it’s a strong chair.
Allegra McEvedy Bought, Borrowed & Stolen
Ignore the hideous photographs, and self-indulgent waffle, and you might find some recipes you’ll want to cook again and again in this astonishingly big book, suggests Joanna Biddolph.
Maria Elia Full of Flavour Book Launch
Full of Flavour is a lovely book. With a simple, easy to read layout and photo after glorious photo of Elia’s meals, this is one of those books you like to look at as much as you like to actually use it.
A History of English Food by Clarissa Dickson Wright
An invitation to dine at The Savoy with the incomparable Clarissa Dickson Wright was an opportunity too good to be missed last week. The lady is in town publicising her new tome, A History of English Food, and where better to talk trotters and trifle than one of London’s original and best dining destinations.