Recipes Every Man Should Know by Susan Russo – review
It’s a little black book. Perhaps not THE little black book containing possibly incriminating information, but it does still hold within its covers tips and...
Geetie’s Cookbook by Geetie Singh – review
Geetie’s Cookbook is subtitled “Recipes from the kitchen of The Duke of Cambridge Organic Pub”. It’s a bit of a mouthful but a delicious one....
Desserts by Rachel Lane and Ting Morris – review
It’s got to be one of my favourite books of the moment. Desserts is quality in both content and presentation. The large format allows for...
Arabian Flavours – Recipes and Tales of Arab Life by Salab Jamal – review
We have not had great exposure to Arab cuisine in Britain. Our connections to that region have never been as close as, say, those we...
500 Italian Dishes by Valentina Sforza – review
It’s summer in England and we have been blessed with dry weather. OK, the sun seems to have been as elusive as ever but at...
Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen by Elizabeth David – review
Elizabeth David is for many the Grande Dame of British cooking, although she is more famed for her writings on the cuisine of the Mediterranean...
Lotte’s Country Kitchen by Lotte Duncan – review
I review many cookbooks in the course of a month but this one has had me waiting in eager anticipation. It has arrived, and is...
Verdura – Vegetables Italian Style by Viana La Place – review
Summer in the UK. Where better to be …well, apart perhaps from Italy. And if we have that vision in our mind’s eye then perhaps...
The Greens Cookbook by Deborah Madison – review
The sub-title of The Greens Cookbook is Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine. It is considered by many to be a classic and now it’s back in print...
Funky Lunch by Mark Northeast – review
Feeding children. That starts being traumatic at about the time they learn to speak. “No, don’t won’ it”, “yucky”, “I fink it’s too green” are...
Cupcake Heaven by Jennie Milsom – review
Apple Press have a reputation for presenting cookbooks which are attractive and informative. I have recently reviewed Smoothie Heaven, and Cupcake Heaven indicates that there...
The Art of Preserving by Rick Field – review
This is a bumper volume of well over 200 pages of recipes, and the stunning photographs by France Ruffenach make this a coffee-table-quality book. Its...
Smoothie Heaven by Wendy Sweetser – cookbook review
I love cookbooks and consider them things of beauty and joys to behold. It is equally true, however, that up until a few weeks ago...
Meeting the Medicine Men by Charles Langley – book review
This site is called Mostly Food and Cocktails and the space that isn’t food will be filled with what I hope will interest and amuse...
Into the Vietnamese Kitchen by Andrea Nguyen – review
A very apt title, Into the Vietnamese Kitchen. The author, Andrea Nguyen, invites the reader into a kitchen that is both personal and representative of...
500 Salads by Susannah Blake – review
Well, who would think there were so many? Thus speaketh a child of the 1950s. The era when salad, if you ever saw one, was...
The CSIRO Wellbeing Plan for Kids – cookbook review
There can be few of us who are not aware of the changing shape of the younger generation. They are often taller but more of...
200 Cupcakes – cookbook review
It’s a trend that is enduring. These little cakes are practical to eat, they are versatile, being enjoyed equally by adults and children, and they...
Recipes from an Italian Summer – cookbook review
When we from Northern Europe think of Italy it’s always summer. A shimmer of heat haze on quiet country roads. Black-clad grandmothers sitting at shady...
200 Meals for Two by Louise Blaire – review
There are shelves and shelves of amazing cookbooks. All of them have qualities, be they a particular ethnic cuisine, a particular style of cooking, vegetarian,...