I write about all kinds of cookbooks throughout the year. I keep an ongoing list of books to come back to, never quite knowing what theme I’m going to pick up each week. And over the year, some transfer from my research list onto my wish list. Not always cookbooks, but always with food at [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cookbooks'
The Friday Five – the ones on my list
December 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five
Tags:Bill's·Dan Lepard·Pieminister
The Friday Five – What are the most wished for books this season?
December 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five
I was looking at a new feature on Amazon this week on Most Wished For books. I’m not sure there are many surprises in the list, so I’ve also given some options around a good alternative on a theme as well Top of the list overall is River Cottage Veg Every Day! Their exclamation [...]
The Friday Five – Christmas is coming, the cook is getting…?
November 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five
How would you describe your emotional state in the run up to Christmas? Excited? Nervous? Stressed? Taken to drink? Personally, I love Christmas, especially the part when all the cookbooks come out and the planning starts. Here are five that would you get in the seasonal spirit, either in the traditional sense or something a [...]
Tags:Christmas cookbooks
The Friday Five – Cookbooks for Real Men
November 11th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Baking, BBQs, British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Meat treats
This post was inspired by @DineHard and a tweet about considering giving away a copy of The Playboy Gourmet in the cookbook swap that @PumpkinandMice is organising. So here’s five for men who are men who happen to like to cook. The Playboy Gourmet – a 1970s epic, that somehow has not been [...]
The Friday Five – Not taking cookbooks too seriously
November 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, Breakfast, British favourites, Christmas foodie gifts, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Just for fun, Kitsch cooking
I wrote a post before about cookbooks from different characters, like Snoopy and Harry Potter, and I’ve come across a few more, but with more of a film and TV theme, that I thought were fun, and would be conversation starters with anyone browsing your cookbook shelves. They might even have some pretty decent recipes [...]
Tags:Bewitched·It's a Wonderful Life·Pulp Fiction·Star Wars·Twilight
The Friday Five – Winter is practically on us!
October 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · British favourites, Cookbooks, Food Writing, Foodie gifts, Foodie Travel, Friday Five, Fruit & Veg, Healthy eating
Okay, I’m not sure how it happened, but we seem to have lost 20° in the outside temperature, and this morning I was out there with the ice scraper. So, Delia’s Summer Collection is going away for 6 months, and swapped for the winter version, which is my standby for this time of year. But [...]
The Friday Five – A week of weeks
October 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie things to do, Friday Five, Herbs & Spices, Indian Food, Ingredients
Gosh, it’s a busy old week this week. It is National Curry Week. Chocolate Week. Egg Week. And just to top it off, cake week. And next week is National Baking Week. You’d have thought there were enough weeks in the year to have these better spread out, but no idea how they get decided [...]
Tags:Michel Roux·Paul A. Young·Sky High Cakes·Three Sisters Indian Cookbook
A dessert plate as a tribute to Zoe Restaurant
October 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Foodie Travel, Places to eat, Sweet treats
I’ve possibly mentioned before that I really love New York, and I was always really fond of Zoe Restaurant in Soho. To me, it was the epitome of New York, with its open kitchen, beautiful tiles and even more beautiful people. I first went about a year after opening, not because we knew it was [...]
The Friday Five – making time for tea
September 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Friday Five, Sweet treats
I adore a proper tea, whether it’s a posh afternoon cream tea or a proper Yorkshire tea from childhood. If you don’t have time for a full lunch or dinner, then nothing to beat getting friends around for tea. Here’s five choices in case you’re lacking tea time inspiration. Tea with Mrs Simkins: Delicious Recipes [...]
The Friday Five – On pies, baking and Britishness
September 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, British favourites, Cookbooks, Foodie gifts, Friday Five, Meat treats
It could be because we’ve gone beyond the Last Night of the Proms, which is always a signal of autumn for me, or that publishers are preparing for Christmas, but there is a raft of new books out that are calling out for attention. And there is a bit of a theme, all around real [...]
Tags:Baking·Bea's of Bloomsbury·Hairy Bikers·Jamie Oliver·Pieminister·pies·The Ginger Pig
