Book Reviews

I am sure that many of you reading this blog will already be familiar with Simon Majumdar, prolific food blogger at Dos Hermanos. You may or may not know that he is an accomplished author. Sometime back I donated to the Hope For Haiti raffle and by doing so was entered into a competition – [...]

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Alice Hart is a young woman who has achieved a lot for someone still in her twenties. Qualified chef and part owner of the esteemed Hart & Fuggle in London, she has also been the youngest editor so far at Waitrose Food Illustrated. Now Alice can add the release of a stunning cookbook to her [...]

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So often food and in turn, cookery books are often thought to be just about pleasing the stomach, however, many of us buy our cookery books as much for the pleasure of reading them, sometimes they sit ready to be leafed through and salivated over, and, yet never make it into the kitchen to be [...]

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March 15, 2010 · 6 comments

Umama-mia!

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Laura Santtini’s passion for food comes from her Italian grandmother and her parents who launched the Italian restaurant Santtini’s in Belgravia, (which was famed for being Frank Sinatra’s all-time favourite eatery). As an avid cook she has mastered the skills required in transforming every day Italian dishes into unforgettable and simply magical food. In her [...]

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February 12, 2010 · 23 comments

From Plot To Plate

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The New Urban Farmer by Celia Brooks Brown is due for publication in early March 2010. I am sure it will take the market by storm. How can it not? It is surely a gem of a book and one most suited to the current trend of growing your own food. This book is billed [...]

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When Jim Lahey’s recipe for no-knead bread first hit the New York Times, it sparked a massive bread-baking frenzy. Anyone and everyone began talking about home baking and the fact that this bread required little attention making it so adaptable to everyday life. Everyone seemed to love the no-knead bread, including me, alas when Lahey announced [...]

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Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well by Pellegrino Artusi is a classic Italian cookbook that is written with passion, humility, irreverence and humour. It was a great milestone in Italian cookery books, being the first one to combine a collection of the fundamental recipes from all the regions of Italy. Until [...]

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December 20, 2009 · 17 comments

Anyone For Dessert?

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Dessert by David Everitt-Matthias (The two-Michelin-starred chef of Cheltenham’s Le Champignon Sauvage restaurant) is his second book, one that was always going to be compared to his critically acclaimed debut, Essence. Luckily Dessert is a great success, exploring the world of desserts, and pushing the boundaries, of the dessert chef’s art. Each of the book’s [...]

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Christmas is often seen as the time of excess and of great joy but it isn’t always that way for everyone – something the above music video brings home well. It was the lovely Jeanne at Food Blogger Connect (see the ultra cool video below and this article here) who introduced me to the BloggerAid [...]

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November 10, 2009 · 6 comments

Inbound Marketing

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“If you have more money than brains, you should focus on outbound marketing. If you have more brains than money, you should focus on inbound marketing by reading this book.” —Guy Kawasaki, cofounder of Alltop, and author of Reality Check Whilst Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs (The New Rules of Social [...]

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October 20, 2009 · 22 comments

Damn Good Food

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Damn Good Food: 157 Recipes from Hell’s Kitchen by Mitch Omer (founder of the original Hell’s Kitchen Restaurants) and Ann Bauer (previous food editor at Minnesota Monthly) is a roller coaster of a book, from recounting Omer’s darker days of addiction and suffering from bipolar disorder to sweet childhood memories inter-spaced with belly rumble inducing recipes of the [...]

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