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 …
A small book that managed to get this sometimes cynical, seen-it-all reviewer smiling and engaged by its sheer uniqueness and overall attractiveness. Yet it is still only things on sticks! Pie Pops, savoury (or sweet) pies in miniature, affixed to lollipop sticks, is what this little book focusses on. Great for parties, lunches and just being …
Even for many accomplished cooks, baking and decorating baked goods can still be something they avoid where possible, feeling it is too difficult. This book seeks to show that this need not be the case. The author runs a bakery which specialises in decorated cakes and here she gives a bit of an insider’s look at …
The title is misleading, if only because this reviewer didn’t know that there was a problem with high altitudes affecting baking. At first he thought this was something strange about baking on a campfire when sitting on a mountain! In any case, this book soon put this misunderstanding to bed and provided enlightenment to a problem …
Here is a book that aims to take any mystery out of baking through a number of simplistic, easy-to-follow chapters. From the get-go it starts with a great intention and surely manages to deliver upon its aims. In what is a refreshing way of imparting much information, the book is structured into three main sections – …
Surely all breads are great, unless you are one of those dieticians who advocate cutting out bread from a diet. What could be nicer than a nice, freshly-baked loaf? So to produce a book entitled “100 Great Breads” it must have been very hard to make such a shortlist! Here the author in a surprisingly-thin book …
Making bread is one of those things that many home cooks want to do, dream to do and yet not so many actually do. A number of excuses are always given, with time being one of the most common, followed by a perception of difficulty. Here author Elinor Klivans hopes to overturn all objections and get …
A call to arms: come on and join our baking revolution is the claim and gauntlet being thrown down to the food establishment by a duo of “eco-artisan bakers”. Here in their Bread Revolution book is an interesting challenge to everybody, inciting you to rethink your views about baking and relationship to the humble loaf. Through …
