This introduction to Japanese home cooking is the best we've seen, with great pictures, a wide range of recipes and handy hints to help you create the most beautiful food.
This new book is all about being a mini food adventurer and is packed with challenges, recipes and brilliant facts about food. As Matt and I are both a bit older than most readers of the book, we had a good look through it then passed it to our brilliant 6-year-old reviewer and next door neighbour Ruby to give us her verdict
This beautifully styled cookery book features home cooked recipes for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon cake, dinner and dessert and serves them up with gorgeous retro crockery and hand drawn illustrations
We’ve set ourselves a challenge: to review Jamie Oliver’s new cookbook by spending a day cooking through his recipes. From a blow-out breakfast to a three course supper, we’ll be finding out if the recipes really work and just how much comfort food two people and a baby can eat.
The Cookiepedia recipe book is filled with 50 different types of cookie, from trendy twists on classics to child pleasers. It's easy to use (if you have a US measuring cup) and there's plenty of variety. We'd recommend it as a lovely present for a friend who likes baking!
The results are in, thanks to teams of researchers and scientists: Foods on a stick just taste better. At least, according to Matt Armendariz, but we're happy to go along with that!
A review of the fully illustrated Cook Step by Step recipe book, published by DK on the 1st September 2010. The self-proclaimed 'modern day recipe bible' has the recipes, but does it have the passion?
From the genius publishers of Wild Swimming, Taste Britain is a celebration of local food throughout the UK, guiding you through area by area to the best farmers’ markets, specialist shops, pick you owns (my personal favourites!), gastro tours and regional specialities and introducing new food heroes that are hidden to all but the best chefs.
Skye Gyngell is an acclaimed Australian chef and food writer whose work was centric to gaining the Petersham Nurseries Cafe (Richmond, Surrey) its reputation for great food and a string of awards. The recipes in her latest book are a breath of fresh air.
A review of Tamasin Day Lewis's book, Supper for a song. Day Lewis inspires her readers to be a little bit more daring, experiment with what they have at hand and spruce it up with a few extras for a fantastic brand-new dish.