A Field Guide to Cheese: How to Select, Enjoy, and Pair the World’s Best Cheeses
A Field Guide to Cheese is a veritable compendium of some of the most celebrated cheeses from around the world and a fully illustrated cheese...
Italy: The World Vegetarian
Italy: The World Vegetarian is a vibrant volume penned by Christine Smallwood. It will delight vegetarians but, just as importantly, it will also be welcomed...
Vodka cocktail
Vodka Cocktails by Stuart Walton is perhaps the best quality and best priced vodka cocktail book around. It’s from Lorenz Books who have a reputation...
Spirited – the perfect gift
Spirited: Cocktails from Around the World I am blessed! I have the opportunity to review books from every English-speaking country and I love my job....
Gin cocktail
Gin Cocktails by Stuart Walton is perhaps the best quality and best priced gin cocktail book around. It’s from Lorenz Books who have a reputation...
Oz Clarke on English Wine
How things have changed. A combination of global warming and improved techniques have elevated English wines. Wine guru Oz Clarke now has material to fill...
Anne Willan with Women in the Kitchen
Women in the Kitchen: Twelve Essential Cookbook Writers Who Defined the Way We Eat, from 1661 to Today Anne Willan is a culinary educator and...
Always Home: A Daughter’s Recipes and Stories
One may not recognise the author, Fanny Singer, but any food lover will know of her mum, Alice Waters. Always Home: A Daughter’s Recipes and...
Charcuterie at home
Home Charcuterie: Make your own bacon, sausages, salami and other cured meats So many more people are becoming interested in home food preparation. It could...
How to raise a loaf and fall in love with sourdough
Has it something to do with the lockdown? Seems like everybody is baking and a few are showing off their latest sourdough loaf. There is...
On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen
On Vegetables: Modern Recipes for the Home Kitchen is the long-awaited cookbook from Chef Jeremy Fox. He is the chef’s chef who has a reputation...
Grow Fruit & Vegetables in Pots: Planting Advice & Recipes from Great Dixter
We live in strange times and just now gardens are more important than ever. Grow Fruit & Vegetables in Pots: Planting Advice & Recipes from...
Cooking in Marfa: Welcome, We’ve Been Expecting You
That’s quite a title – Cooking in Marfa: Welcome, We’ve Been Expecting You. Marfa sounds like it could be a Mediterranean island with sun-kissed beaches...
Dishing it Up: The Story Behind Twenty Icons of French Food & Drink
Dishing it Up: The Story Behind Twenty Icons of French Food & Drink is by one of my favourite food writers. Paola Westbeek isn’t French,...
Signature Dishes That Matter
Signature Dishes That Matter? Well, that is a title to fill one with expectations. This is an imposing tome with a substantial hard white cover...
China – A Cookbook
Here is a real winner of a cookbook from Lorenz Books, and it would make the perfect gift for any Chinese food lover! China...
Market Kitchen Cookbook – review
If you are an avid UK food TV viewer then you will no doubt have watched Market Kitchen. It’s the food magazine programme that took...
How to Drink Gin
How to Drink Gin! That’s a curious name for a book, isn’t it? One would think it’s a simple process. Step 1 – Fill glass...
My Winter Kitchen: Warming Recipes for the Coldest Month
What a great little book. My Winter Kitchen: Warming Recipes for the Coldest Months is a book for cooks. Its small format makes it ideal...
The Whisky Dictionary: An A–Z of whisky, from history & heritage to distilling & drinking
The Whisky Dictionary, or to give this book its full title – The Whisky Dictionary: An A–Z of whisky, from history & heritage to distilling...