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:
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 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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