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With an ever-increasing demand upon chefs to use ingredients with the fewest food miles, the Kitchen Garden Companion from the doyenne of Australian cookery, Stephanie Alexander, is bang on the moment.
Posted: 05 November 2010 | 17:28
For 60 years, The Good Food Guide has been directing consumers to the best establishments for great food, up and down the country. The eating out environment has changed hugely from the culinary desert that existed in 1951 to the exceptional quality cooking we have today.
Posted: 29 October 2010 | 10:57
'Setting the Table' by Danny Meyer is the most significant book on restaurants I have read. It inspires and also articulates beliefs and values that I found difficult to communicate.
Posted: 29 October 2010 | 10:57
For his third book on Thai cuisine, the Australian Michelin-starred head chef of Nahm in London's Halkin Hotel, David Thompson, turns to street food. But this is no straight-forward recipe book.
Posted: 21 October 2010 | 11:37
In the competitive world of cookbooks there is always the demand for a comprehensive collection of recipes, so it's surprising that this book of 1,000 Indian recipes is the first of its size and scope.
Posted: 14 October 2010 | 13:39
Known as The Big 'Un to northern restaurateurs and members of the Restaurant Association - where he has been chairman and president - David Baldwin has run Baldwins Omega restaurant with his wife Pauline since 1980. To mark the anniversary, he's published a book commemorating those three decades. Tom Vaughan dips into the pages and talks to the Big 'Un himself.
Posted: 13 October 2010 | 14:45
It's leftovers that interest Sunday Telegraph food writer Diana Henry in her sixth book, Food from Plenty. More specifically, she wants to encourage readers to stop binning food they couldn't shoehorn into a recipe - or just couldn't be bothered to cook - and start thinking about how to make better use of it.
Posted: 07 October 2010 | 13:40
Kit Chapman's book, My Archipelago, tells the turbulent story of how he took over the running of the family hotel, the Castle in Taunton, which tore the relationship with his parents apart. Here, he tells Janet Harmer that the relationship with his own sons means handing over to the next generation will go a lot smoother this time.
Posted: 07 October 2010 | 10:30
For those of you that have been on holiday or living under a stone for the past two years, René Redzepi is the chef-patron of Noma restaurant in Copenhagen, which has recently been given the title of best restaurant in the world.
Posted: 30 September 2010 | 12:24
In his new book, My Archipelago, Kit Chapman, owner of the Castle hotel in Taunton, Somerset, tells the turbulent story of how he took over the running of the family business. This extract shows how the battle reached a crescendo.
Posted: 30 September 2010 | 12:09
Once described by The Times restaurant critic AA Gill as "unquestionably the most influential chef since Escoffier", Ferran Adrià has garnered both acclaim and criticism from chefs around the globe throughout his extraordinary career.
Posted: 24 September 2010 | 16:26
Originally published in 1991, Flavours of Greece quickly became one of the most authentic and authoritative collections of Greek recipes.
Posted: 09 September 2010 | 13:45
The latest book from food writer Lindy Wildsmith, Cured, devotes nearly 300 pages to the ancient art of preserving food. It is a craft which, as she points out, allowed man to stop playing the role of hunter-gatherer and settle down in one place.
Posted: 02 September 2010 | 14:55
The fiery little plant that is mustard takes centre stage in what is believed to the first authoritative book on the subject. Having been cultivated since before 4,000BC, mustard has a long and fascinating history extending through a variety of cultures which is explored with great enthusiasm in The Mustard Book.
Posted: 20 August 2010 | 12:44
I wanted to be able to classify this book as another ghastly tome written by someone who did not really understand our trade. However, a public vilification of Enda Larkin and his book will not be possible.
Posted: 12 August 2010 | 14:23
With hotel reviews so readily available online, it makes you wonder who buys guidebooks any more. So it takes a brave person to bring out a new book of hotel listings, but when it is written by a scion of what is perhaps the most famous hotelkeeping family in the country - the Fortes ...
Posted: 05 August 2010 | 17:10
This 500-page tome, containing more than 450 recipes, is a real tour de force of meat, game and poultry cookery...
Posted: 23 July 2010 | 14:14
The quiet man of the London restaurant scene, Theo Randall has gone about building a legion of fans for his simple, seasonal Italian cooking since opening at London's InterContinental hotel four years ago.
Posted: 09 July 2010 | 15:52
The premise of this book is so simple that it is amazing that no-one has come up with the idea before. Niki Segnit, a keen home cook with a background in food and drink marketing, decided she needed a manual to help her understand how and why one flavour might go with another.
Posted: 02 July 2010 | 15:05
Trina Hahnemann is the Danish answer to our very own Delia Smith, who has risen to fame with her cookbook, The Nordic Diet. She spoke to Neil Gerrard about her career and a pop-up restaurant she will launch in London this year.
Posted: 18 June 2010 | 10:14
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