Reading about food: a few of my favourite books
When the weather’s too depressing to go out and forage or search for good eating places, I stay in to cook and read. Recently, I’ve been revisiting some of my favourite books about food.
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A Taste of Kerala
I’ve become rather obsessed with India over the last few years, not least when I discovered Atul Kochhar on the Great British Menu and started cooking dishes from his two great cookery books. He gave me an insight to a subtle balance of spices and flavours with very easy to…
Dress your cookie! (and bake it too)
It’s great to get a parcel through the post. The team at Octopus Publishing must have thought I needed something to make me smile. Opening the package and finding inside “Dress your Cookie” certainly did. Decorating cookies could very well become the next craze after cupcakes. The book by Joanna…
Cookery books galore – inspiration for the new year
Amazon wish-lists are great. They make sure you get what you want. In our household, this Christmas saw no less than four cookery books under the tree: Darina Allen: Forgotten Skills of Cooking Nicola Graimes: New Vegetarian Kitchen Pushpeesh Pant: India: the Cookbook The Silver Spoon
The Good Table by Valentine Warner
My mind was already made up about this book before I’d even laid my hands on it. I wanted to like it. When I finally received a copy, its production values did not let me down. A beautifully styled and shot photograph on almost every page, a rarity in these straightened times.
Pumpkin Delights
With Hallowe’en just round the corner, pumpkins are in splendid abundance in such beautiful shapes, sizes and colours. Check out your local independent grocer for the best choice. If’ you’re carving a pumpkin for Hallowe’en, you’ll probably be wondering what to with the flesh you’re left with. My favourite recipe…
Signe Johansen’s Scandilicious – Book Review
Signe Johansen’s Scandilicious is an instant classic, offering an authoritative insight in to the wonderful world of Scandinavian cuisine.
Simon Majumdar and Jay Rayner: writing about eating
I write for a living. Morning to night I put words on paper to help clients sell or explain technical products. For fun, I eat, cook and write about it. I’m not alone in this: there are lots of food bloggers out there doing the same. Edinburgh has plenty of good food and…
Chocolate Week Heaven
Chocolate Week 2011: I thought I’d try my hand at making some chocolates. It was fun, but sure does help you appreciated the experts! Now you’ll have to forgive me, but my unsuccessful efforts to recreate one of the recipes in the Auberge du Chocolat’s book was not all my fault. Yes,…
Being cooked for is bliss
I love Saturdays. Not just because it is the weekend, but because Mr E F cooks for me. We go to the fish shop (Eddie’s Seafood) and choose something fresh and delicious and that’s all the input I have to make. Mr E F’s criteria for a good recipe is…