500 Cheeses by Roberta Muir – review
Cheese! The savoury equivalent of chocolate. Yes, it offers similar emotions to so many people – craving, greed, joy of tasting and guilt. It’s one...
Kitcho – Japan’s ultimate dining experience by Kunio Tokuoka – review
Kunio Tokuoka is executive chef of Kyoto Kitcho. He was born in 1960, and is the grandson of Mr. Teiichi Yuki, founder of Kitcho. He...
Vatch’s Thai Street Food by Vatcharin Bhumichitr – review
Vatch’s Thai Street Food is a lovely large-format volume with brilliant food and travelogue photography by Martin Brigdale and Somachi Phongphaisarnkit. Vatch is in fact...
Momofuku by David Chang and Peter Meehan – review
This is a chunky, classy tome from Absolute Press (I hope they work the same magic with my book next year!). Its photography is stunning,...
Vegetarian with a Vengeance by Christine Bille Neilsen – review
I am not a vegetarian but I am a lover of good food. Vegetarian with a Vengeance is a full-colour cookbook with a slightly different...
Favourite Mince Recipes by Lee Blaylock – review
So many of us were brought up on mince. Grey and unappetising for school dinners, and brown and unappetising at home. Little imagination was given...
Leith’s Meat Bible by Max Clark and Susan Spaull – review
This is a sizeable tome for those committed carnivores who are truly interested in their food. Leith’s Meat Bible is a one-stop book for the...
At Elizabeth David’s Table – Her very best everyday recipes – review
She was and still is one of our most celebrated food writers. Her first book was published in 1950 in those dark days after the...
Raghu Rai’s Delhi – book review
Raghu Rai may not be a name familiar to you unless you are a photography professional. He has, however, had a career which has been...
Japanese Home Cooking with Master Chef Murata – review
You probably won’t recognise the name of the chef unless you are reading this in Japan. It’s no surprise, but our ignorance has everything to...
Biscotti by Mona Talbott and Mirella Misenti – review
Biscotti are cookies, cookies are biscuits and biscuits are biscotti unless you are from the US where a biscuit is a scone …if you are...
The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit – review
This is surely a prize-winner among this year’s food-related books. One would think that it would be a dry and worthy tome. The sort that...
The Yogurt Cookbook by Arto der Haroutunian – review
Arto der Haroutunian died too young. His books have become collector’s items but thanks to Grub Street we can all have access to his collections...
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...
India – The Ultimate Sights, Places, and Experiences – book review
India is large, colourful, and sumptuous, and any other superlatives you care to mention. It’s a luxurious encyclopaedia of the subcontinent and covers pretty much...
The Sari by Mukulika Banerjee – review
This wasn’t, to be honest, what I expected. It has a bright and evocative picture on the front cover but this isn’t a book about...
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...