Warning: Even if you don’t make anything from this book it is more than capable of contributing towards weight gain. You will be thinking of wonderful cakes after looking at just a few pages from this richly-illustrated book. The raison d’être of this book is to help take the fear factor out of French patisserie and …
Food from the American South with a bit of a twist is what this book promised, which hopefully won’t scare ultra-conservative traditionalists away. The author has adopted Southern food as his own style, but elements of his Korean roots and classical French culinary training seep through. Through this book it is hoped that the reader will …
This reviewer is fortunate insofar as he has no (known) food allergy, so one can enjoy as much food as one’s waistline will tolerate, yet it must be terrible to have a certain allergy and see perhaps a favourite food becoming out-of-bounds. This book’s author has been through this problem and got the metaphorical t-shirt yet …
Spice Trip is billed as “the simple way to make food exciting” and is a companion to a British television series of the same name. In essence, the reader is shown some key spices (chillies, nutmeg & mace, cloves, cumin, cinnamon and black pepper), given the chance to learn about these often under-appreciated spices and provided with …
Raw foods are an often misunderstood thing. Ignorance, uncertainty and plain unfamiliarity stand in the way for most people it seems, yet the self-same people will often eat salad without a second thought… This book aims to correct things and possibly introduce the purported benefits and delights of raw cookery to a wider public. The authors …
At times you might be forgiven for thinking that surely food can be left free of politics, when so much else in the world is tied up with political string. Sorry, but politics plays a big place here too! Whether it is public policy and politics dictating what we should eat and drink on health grounds, …
If you like meat you probably LOVE bacon. What a versatile cut of meat it is from perhaps the most noblest of animals. The authors sum up bacon perfectly with the following phrase: “one of those flavour-packed, umami-rich, secret-weapon ingredients”. A book like this will help even the most dedicated bacon-addict find something new and the …
