Title:
Simply Irresistible French Desserts
Author:
Christelle Le Ru, Vanessa Jones,
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
Christelle Le Ru
Release Date:
2005
Pages:
102
Why is it that recipe names look so much more evocative when written in French? Gâteau au chocolate et à l’abricot seems so much more sophisticated than just plain Chocolate apricot cake. Still, from the look of this slice of this moist dark cake pictured in Christelle Le Ru’s Simply Irresistible French Desserts I don’t think
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Title:
Real Food for Real People
Author:
Various
Genre:
Cookery
As charity cookbooks go, Real Food for Real People is a real gem. The book is part of a fundraising drive for Moneystown National School’s building fund and was produced and published by the Parents’ Committee in this County Wicklow village. But, even though Real Food for Real People was evidentially done on a shoestring, the design quality
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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:
A Paradiso Year
Author:
Denis Cotter
Genre:
Cooking
Publisher:
Attic Press
Release Date:
2006-02-01
Pages:
148
To my sorrow I must admit that I have only once eaten in Denis Cotter’s award-winning Café Paradiso restaurant in Cork. But that one time, nearly ten years ago now, was mostly memorable for my first taste of polenta. My sociologist student friend felt it was deeply ironic that I should be writing my thesis on the Irish Famine at the time and
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Title:
Monday's Warriors
Author:
Maurice Shadbolt
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date:
1990
Pages:
308
Taking a Yankee, putting him into the British army and throwing him into the middle of the Maori Land Wars of the 1860s could almost be seen as over-egging the pudding yet Kimball Bent of the State of Maine in the USA, Maurice Shadbolt’s anti-hero in Monday’s Warriors, is based on a real man. Sometimes life is, indeed, stranger than fiction
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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:
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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