Cinnamon Kitchen – The Cookbook by Vivek Singh – review
Cinnamon Kitchen is another of the restaurants in chef Vivek Singh’s empire. Cinnamon Club in Westminster has long been the classy and dark-polished-wood Indian restaurant...
Leon – Naturally Fast Food by Henry Dimbleby – review
Leon restaurant was founded by Henry Dimbleby, John Vincent and the celebrated cook Ellegra McEvedy. They wanted to open a fast-food restaurant that you would...
The Great British Book of Baking – cookbook review
This book goes right into my end-of-year Top Ten cookbook reads for 2010. No deliberation and no waiting in case another contender floats through the...
Ching’s Chinese Food in Minutes by Ching-He Huang – review
Heat magazine proclaims “Ching-He Huang is the new face of Chinese cooking”. Fresh-faced and youthful, Ching already has, however, a good few years of successful...
Eating Korean by Celia Hae-Jin Lee – review
Food isn’t just about nourishment. It’s not just about flavour. It can more be described as a delicious (mostly) conduit for memories and tradition. We...
Quick and Easy Korean Cooking by Celia Hae-Jin Lee – review
Korean food has a place in America’s restaurant and recipe book pantheon but it’s a newcomer on the European food scene. There are more and...
Easy Japanese Cooking – Appetizer Rex by Kentaro Kobayashi – review
The author, Kentaro Kobayashi, is a young man with both talent and passion. He started his working life as an illustrator but soon displayed his...
Food of Japan by Shirley Booth – review
It’s the winner of a Japan Festival Award ‘for outstanding achievements in furthering the understanding of Japanese culture in the United Kingdom’ in 2000. In...
Japanese Cooking – A Simple Art, by Shizuo Tsuji – review
The world is shrinking and more of us than ever have taken advantage of travel opportunities. We move with ease around the globe and adopt...
Asian Flavours – Kitchen Classics by Jane Price – review
This is another amazing book from Murdoch. This publisher continues to amaze me with great cookbooks at unbeatable prices. Each recipe is triple-tested in the...
Indian Superfood by Gurpareet Bains – review
Gurpareet Bains shot to fame with international press coverage in September of 2009 when he unveiled ‘The World’s Healthiest Meal’. Now he has turned his...
Veggie Haven – Easy Japanese Cooking by Kentaro Kobayashi – review
All you regular readers will know how I have waxed lyrical about other books by Kentaro Kobyashi and this one will be no exception. Veggie...
Flavours of Greece by Rosemary Barron – review
Greek cookbooks are surprisingly thin on the ground. I am glad to see that Grub Street has noticed the void and has chosen to fill...
Donburi Mania – Easy Japanese Cooking by Kentaro Kobayashi – review
I love Japanese food but seldom have I been offered anything other than tempura and sushi. Now, don’t get me wrong, I could eat both...
Easy Japanese Cookbook by Emi Kazuko – review
This isn’t just a large format volume, it’s a seriously large format complete with a CD of traditional Japanese music to listen to while you...
Indonesian Food by Sri Owen – review
Indonesian Food is a fascinating autobiographical cookbook which starts in 1939 when Sri Owen was a small girl. She has memories of food at her...
The Chopsticks Diet by Kimiko Barber – review
I guess that just the word “diet” will have half of my dear readers turning the page (if they were able to do such a...
Thailand – A World of Flavours by Christine Watson – review
The author of Thailand – A World of Flavours is Christine Watson. The name doesn’t sound very Thai or even Asian but, in fact, Christine...
Thai Street Food by David Thompson – review
Street food is comfort. We in the UK might be drawn to the smell of fried onions wafting from a burger cart outside the local...
The Mustard Book by Rosamond Man – review
We in Britain have long had a love for spice. That might be a surprising fact to many who believe that our food is bland...