Cook Me Quick “Leon” was founded by Allegra McEvedy, Henry Dimbleby, and John Vincent, and voted the “Best New Restaurant” by judges Rick Stein, Gordon Ramsay, Nigel Slater, Heston Blumenthal and Jay Rayner in the 2005 Observer food awards. This book achieves the almost impossible. Not only is it an artistic explosion of lovely scrapbook [...]
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Miss Masala and an Indian Summer The weekend before I headed off on holiday saw the return of the sun, or at least it did here in this quiet corner of rural Staffordshire. And, the return of the sun could only mean one thing – making the most of the opportunity to barbecue. Summer barbecues [...]
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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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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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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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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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