A simple proposition you might think? A listing of restaurants in London, England with many personal commentaries about some of the high and possibly low points of London cuisine. Yet here the authors have achieved something rather special. Many books of this kind tend to be reactive. You know you are going to be visiting a …
Great things can come in little packages: just like a tasty Yorkshire Pudding that is not made of very much, it still packs a powerful taste with its relative simplicity – yet many people are scared of making them, thinking they are difficult to make. This book, about the Yorkshire Pudding, is a similar great little …
With summer slowly making its appearance in the northern hemisphere, many people’s minds are turning to travel and when in England possibly visiting some of the quaint, archetypal villages that are clustered into the Cotswolds. Such visits invariably generate “feel good” thoughts of village life and maybe inexpensive little books like this will prolong the memory …
Rosemary Shrager is a larger-than-life, extrovert chef in the UK who, whilst not seeking Michelin-stardom and all of the stress that goes with it, has managed to carve out a very successful niche as a an author, broadcaster, chef and host to many cookery courses to boot. Would it be too pretentious to suggest that Shrager …
With the holiday season in England slowly gearing up, many people will be thinking about visiting the south-west region and perhaps Cornwall in particular. This little pocket-sized book may let you take a piece of Cornwall home with you to reproduce at will, or if you have never been there before let you have a …
This is clearly a product of love, much research and thought and hopefully the reader will cherish it with similar affection. Despite its title, there are not 100 recipes and neither are many of the recipes something you will probably try for a family meal, but don’t let that put you off! Here the author delves …
If you need one concise book that can define what a gastropub is, through its recipes, then maybe this is for you. Despite the gastropub revolution hitting the UK many years ago, it has left an unforgettable mark on the quality of food served in many pubs and restaurants and generally “lifted the bar” and encouraged …
A British public house (pub) transformed in the early 1990s into a “sort-of-a-restaurant” without the overheads and pretence within the confines of a pub, and the term Gastropub was born. Yet since those heady days The Eagle, for which the pioneering pub is named, remained a beacon for a whole new style of food that had …
