Title:
Rachel's Favourite Food for Friends
Author:
Rachel Allen
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
Gill & Macmillan
Release Date:
2005
Pages:
224
First there was Myrtle Allen who was responsible for singlehandedly raising the profile and quality of Irish food through her work abroad and in her country house hotel at Ballymaloe. Daughter-in-law Darina backed her up, beginning the Ballymaloe Cookery School and, with her Simply Delicious television series and books, started pushing the message
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Title:
Comfort Food
Author:
Maxine Clark
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
Aquamarine
Release Date:
2001
Pages:
128
Now this cookbook is right up my alley. The combination of the words comfort, food, eating and pleasure – especially in winter – talk far more to me that those hated phrases low fat, slimline and reduced calories. Which isn’t to say that comfort food is going to have a drastic effect on your waistline, although it might! It’s
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Title:
The Cook's Companion
Author:
Stephanie Alexander
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
Penguin Global
Release Date:
2007-02
Pages:
1126
This distinctive book – its size and multi-coloured stripes will ensure that you won’t mislay it in your kitchen – is a veritable tome but it is surprisingly readable. It sat on my coffee table for a month, chapters to be digested along with meals, and it has so many post-its hanging out of it to mark the ideas that interest me
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Title:
A Taste of Sunshine
Author:
Jenny Bristow
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
Blackstaff Press
Release Date:
2006-02-01
Pages:
128
Northern Irish cookery writer, radio and UTV television presenter Jenny Bristow has chosen to concentrate on Mediterranean food in her latest book, A Taste of Sunshine. With an emphasis on variety, simple ingredients and cooking meals from fresh raw unprocessed ingredients, Jenny comes firmly down on the side of healthy cooking. She doesn’t
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Title:
Last Chance to Eat
Author:
Gina Mallet
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
W. W. Norton
Release Date:
2004-08-01
Pages:
386
Although cursed with an uninviting cover, Last Chance to Eat, with its investigations into the history and eating of a variety of foodstuffs, is a fascinating read for anyone with even the barest interest in food. For foodies, it should be essential.
Toronto-based Gina Mallet uses her particular memories – a post-WWII childhood in egg-less Britain
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Title:
The Wedding Officer
Author:
Anthony Capella
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Sphere
Pages:
448
Anthony Capella’s first book, The Food of Love – a modern update of the Cyrano de Bergerac story, with food in place of poetry – was a mouth-watering romp through the cuisine of Italy with a different dish on every page. His second novel, The Wedding Officer, is set in the more sombre and rationed times of World War II but Capella
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