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Good tapas should always have an earthy element and José Pizarro's new book, Seasonal Spanish Food, has captured that essence completely.
Posted: 22 January 2010 | 14:39
The image of vegetarian food being dull, grey gruel has long gone, but still too often the veggie option on a menu is restricted to a salad, risotto or omelette. But Terre à Terre, the first book from Amanda Powely and Philip Taylor, owners and chefs of the Brighton restaurant of the same name, has taken vegetarian cuisine to a new level.
Posted: 15 January 2010 | 14:37
Since his arrival in London in the early 1990s, Vineet Bhatia has been hugely instrumental in altering our perceptions of Indian food. In his introduction to this beautifully illustrated book, which comes swaddled in a sassy black cover of embossed silk, Bhatia recalls his dismay at discovering that the British Indian food experience was "aggressively macho, illogically hot and spicy, and usually washed down with a pint".
Posted: 07 January 2010 | 15:42
Yes Chef! By James Winter and James Bulmer Absolute Press £20 ISBN 13 9781906650216 First there was Coco , which featured top...
Posted: 11 December 2009 | 17:33
Chef David Everitt-Matthias has been awarded Best UK Cookbook at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards 2009 for his Dessert cookbook. The two-Michelin-starred chef was given the accolade for Dessert – recipes from Le Champignon Sauvage...
Posted: 10 December 2009 | 18:00
Michelin-starred Gascon chef Pascal Aussignac made his mark on the London restaurant scene a long time ago, so it's no surprise he has brought out a cookbook. Here, the chef shares three recipes from Cuisinier Gascon, a celebration of the food of his homeland in the south-west of France. Kerstin Kühn reports.reports.
Posted: 08 December 2009 | 16:25
Julie Duff's second book, Cakes from Around the World, is a great title for a heavily pregnant woman to read shortly before going off on maternity leave to do coffee mornings and eat cake for a few months.
Posted: 04 December 2009 | 15:38
Off the back of the success of Phaidon's 2005 translation of the iconic The Silver Spoon (Italy's best selling cookbook for more than 50 years) comes The Silver Spoon: Pasta book. Given the almost-biblical status of the Silver Spoon, this encyclopaedic extension of the pasta section in the original book looks set to become a companion for chefs and home cooks alike.
Posted: 19 November 2009 | 10:28
Canada's culinary scene might have been shunned by the recent book Coco: 100 Emerging Culinary Stars but British chef Warren Geraghty puts Vancouver cuisine on the map with West: The Cookbook.
Posted: 13 November 2009 | 14:36
From Floyd's Food, Keith Floyd's first book published in 1981, reissued following his death in September (Absolute Press £7.99, ISBN 978-0-9506785-2-8).
Posted: 06 November 2009 | 14:00
From Floyd's Food, Keith Floyd's first book published in 1981, reissued following his death in September (Absolute Press £7.99, ISBN 978-0-9506785-2-8).
Posted: 06 November 2009 | 11:08
If you don't have a sweet tooth, then permission to look away now, but for those of you stuck with a brief to come up with a petits fours list or just with a predilection for confectionery, this book from the people behind Covent Garden sweet shop, Miss Hope and Mr Greenwood, could be right up your street.
Posted: 06 November 2009 | 10:58
Industry veteran Victor Ceserani has been awarded an honorary doctorate at Thames Valley University in recognition of his contribution to education.
Posted: 29 October 2009 | 09:00
Victor Ceserani, who celebrated his 90th birthday last week, is the chef, teacher and author who pioneered catering education in the UK during his 30 years or so as head of catering at Ealing College.
Posted: 28 October 2009 | 15:20
For all the murmurings about this book - chiefly that it's just published nepotism - let's get one thing straight: it's a fantastic book for a chef to own.
Posted: 23 October 2009 | 18:48
Billed as the Larousse Gastronomique for the home cook and endorsed by none other than the former three Michelin-starred French chef Pierre Koffmann, the first English translation of Ginette Mathiot's I Know How to Cook will no doubt be read by more than a few professionals, as well as home cooks.
Posted: 16 October 2009 | 11:51
A favourite among chefs including Antonio Carluccio and Nigel Slater, Valvona & Crolla deli and café in Edinburgh has been selling Italian ingredients and home-cooked meals to customers in the city since 1934.
Posted: 12 October 2009 | 15:11
Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers are co-owners of the River Café on the banks of the Thames in west London. But then you already know that. You've probably got one or two of their recipe books on your shelf, in common with the millions of other disciples of their culinary philosophy of simplicity, seasonality and high-quality ingredient sourcing
Posted: 01 October 2009 | 14:11
This book is the result of an ambitious project: to muster together into one volume recipes from every chef within Relais & Châteaux UK and Ireland.
Posted: 18 September 2009 | 15:57
When a recipe book's bibliography runs to eight pages and the source materials name-checked include Plato's Epistles and Aristophanes' The Wasps, you know it means business.
Posted: 11 September 2009 | 13:06
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