Title:
Take 6 Ingredients
Author:
Conrad Gallagher
Genre:
Cookery, Irish
Release Date:
2003
Pages:
160
Michelin-starred Irish chef Conrad Gallagher sets out the ethos of this book in the introduction. Each recipe is to contain just six ingredients – not counting salt (Maldon Sea Salt), pepper (freshly ground) and best quality olive oil.
Gallagher always has been a curious mixture of the inspired (his cooking) and the pretentious (his behaviour
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Title:
Not on the Label
Author:
Felicity Lawrence
Genre:
Cookery
Publisher:
Viking
Release Date:
2013
Pages:
386
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Title:
Nigella Bites
Author:
Nigella Lawson
Genre:
Cookery
Publisher:
London : Chatto & Windus
Release Date:
2001
Pages:
244
Although I have never seen the cookery series ‘Nigella Bites’ accompanies, this cookery book is more than able to stand on its own two feet. Nigella Lawson is a sexy earth-mother type with an undeniable talent for cooking and a belief in the restorative powers of good food.
She seductively takes you by the hand and leads you through evocatively-named
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Title:
Mediterranean Cook
Author:
Paul Gayler
Genre:
Cookery
Publisher:
Jacqui Small
Release Date:
2004
Pages:
144
British chef Paul Gayler’s latest book is like a wonderful taster menu of Mediterranean cookery. Dividing the countries around the Mediterranean Sea into four different sections – Central Mediterranean, Balkans, Eastern Mediterranean, Mahgreb and Egypt – Gayler gives a brief overview of cooking in countries ranging from France to
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Title:
La Cucina
Author:
Lily Prior
Genre:
Cookery, Fiction
Publisher:
Random House
Release Date:
2001
Pages:
266
Lily Prior’s debut novel plunges headfirst into the heady world of Sicilian life with its accompanying passions for life, love, family and cooking. After the tragic death of her first love, Bartolomeo, Rosa Fiore buried herself in her family kitchen and cooked unendingly, making so much pasta, bread, tomato sauce and preserves that the produce
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Title:
Kitchen Confidential
Author:
Anthony Bourdain
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
A&C Black
Release Date:
Jun 4 2001
Pages:
320
‘Kitchen Confidential’ is a highly entertaining romp through the murky netherworld of restaurant kitchens in New York. But don’t think that the same thing doesn’t happen here in Ireland, albeit on a smaller scale. Be prepared to be amused, fascinated – and disgusted.
Currently working as the executive chef at the New
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Title:
Judith Cullen's Cookery Classes
Author:
Judith Cullen
Genre:
Cookery
Publisher:
Longacre Press
New Zealand cook Judith Cullen used to run her own café in Dunedin before she changed careers to become a successful teacher of cookery classes, many of which are run from her home. Judith Cullen’s Cookery Classes is her first published book but she has a fresh and simple approach that many more seasoned cookbook writers would envy.
Staying
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