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 How I Cook
Skye Gyngell
Skye Gyngell, head chef of Petersham Nurseries Cafe, brings you into her own home for traditional, simple cookery. Recipes are compiled as entire menus, based around such common occassions as Sunday Lunch, Breakfast, and the Weeknight Dinner. Fear no more about entertaining friends or family as Skye provides delectable and easy recipes that are sure to impress guests and convince them that you worked a lot harder than you actually did! Hardcover, 256 pp. $52.95.
 Alice's Cook Book
Alice Hart
From the youngest ever Food Illustrated food editor. Although the book features seasonal menus, the organization is by type of meal--breakfast and brunch,picnics and camping,Sunday lunch, supper and lunch to share,parties. Recipes range from cheddar cornbread muffins to duck, blood orange and olive salad, and desserts such as a pomegranate jelly with pouring cream and chocolate and salted caramel cups with scooping biscuits. Softcover, 192 pp. $24.95.
 Tana's Kitchen Secrets
Tana Ramsay
Tantalizingly tasty in appearance, with an artfully simple photograph to accompany just about every recipe, Tana Ramsay's newest cookbook venture presents recipes in this same vein of elegant simplicity by using language that every at-home chef can understand. A "kitchen secret" goes along with each recipe, providing helpful suggestions for preparation, storage, and purchasing of ingredients. Classic recipes, such as Shepherd's pie and Chocolate cheesecake are interspersed with more adventurous fare, including Pollack & shrimp pie with smoked paprika mashed potato topping, or, for dessert, Pear & ginger steamed sponge pudding. Hardcover, 288 pp. $32.99.
 Fire & Knives No. 3
This third installment of the British quarterly journal, Fire & Knives, is filled with intriguing articles. From editor Tim Hayward's oyster-filled exploits, to Felicity Cloake's quest for horsemeat, to a review by Catherine Phipps of single-ingredient cookbooks, this issue will keep you reading from front to back cover, non-stop! Softcover, 95 pp. $19.95.
 The Ministry of Food: Thrifty Wartime Ways to Feed You Family Today
Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall
Filled with vintage graphics and vintage tips on feeding a family, this book is a treasure trove of budget-minded ideas and historic recipes. The book also includes a useful gardeners' calender and seasonal menu planners. Hardcover, 224 pp. $34.99.
 Good Old-Fashioned Roasts
Laura Mason
Laura Mason brings us another book in the National Trust cookbook series, this time focusing on roasting joints. Encompassing beef, veal, lamb, pork, chicken and poultry, as well as game birds, rabbit, hare and venison, there are recipes for the roast itself, as well as lots of ideas for ways to stretch the joint of meat further. A roast ham can become a hash, rissoles with parmesan pastry, or be potted with spices to be eaten on toast. There is also a chapter on sauces and accompaniments; sauces and vegetable dishes dominate, while stuffings are features throughout. Colour photos. Hardcover, 160 pp. $27.95.
 National Trust Farmhouse Cookbook
Laura Mason
Focusing on the traditional farmhouse cooking of Britain and Northern Ireland, this book is full of recipes which make the most of native and local ingredients and which highlight the food heritage of Britain. There is light and nutritious fare such as Scottish mutton and barley broth, handheld snacks like cornish pasties, and hearty mains like beef, Guinness and oyster pie. Puddings and baking are well represented also, with the likes of bakewell pudding and Grasmere gingerbread. There are lots of colour photos of the food on offer, as well as sumptuous landscape photography. Hardcover, 315 pp. $57.95.
 River Cottage Everyday
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
A new book from Cookbook Store favourite Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this book departs somewhat from his previous ones by being solely recipe focused as opposed to being split between reicpes and information. River Cottage Everyday is intended to be practical and useful for the home cook, and it is certainly both of those. Breakfast suggestions like mushrooms on toast and eggy bread with apples are quick and easy, a section on lunch is practical enough to focus on lunchbox meals which also use leftovers, a bread chapter offers sourdough, but also yeast free quick breads like Irish soda bread. There are recipes for sustainable fish varieties and thrifty cuts of meat, as well as lots of ideas for fruit and vegetables, and of course, dessert. Full colour photos. Hardcover, 415 pp. $50.00.
 Taste Ye Back: Great Scots and the Food That Made Them
Edited by
Sue Lawrence
Just in time for Burns day comes this book full of the favourite recipes of some of Scotland vegetable soup, Dougray Scott porridge, and Brian Cox recipes get represented; such as haggis, neeps, and tatties, cullen skink, and black bun would all be perfect precursors to a wee dram of good scotch. Hardcover, 211 pp. $34.95.
 Forgotten Skills of Cooking
Darina Allen
Another book from Darina Allen, another treasure for the shelf of the cookbook enthusiast. As usual Allen comes up trumps with a book which is both beautiful and eminently practical, packed full of wisdom, advice, and of course, recipes. This book is a cry for cooks to rediscover the skills and tradions which have largely been forgotten; from foraging for mushrooms, to baking bread, bottling herb vinegars, planting potatoes, identifying food spoilage, making blood pudding, and steaming sweet puddings. Throughout Allen shares the knowledge she's gained from more than 26 years of teaching at the Ballymaloe Cookery School, and the recipes reflect her love of both traditional Irish food, as well as the cooking of other cultures. Colour photos throughout. Hardcover, 600 pp. $65.00.
 Tender Volume 1
Nigel Slater
How fortunate we are that Nigel Slater decided to turn his lawn into a vegetable garden. Beautifully produced, his a to z (actually t!) guide to vegetables embraces general information on each vegetable, how they perform in the garden, available varieties, followed by their usage in the kitchen from seasoning information to inventive recipes for each. Throughout, Nigel Slater sights, smells, sounds and feel of the garden as it transforms over the seasons. Hardcover, 618 pp. $44.95.
 My Kitchen
James Martin
James Martin, one of Britain's favourite chefs, is back with another collection of recipes, here organised by season. Martin has always balanced his chef side with his love of home cooking, shown here where more sophisticated dishes such as honey-glazed quail with beetroot, apple and hazelnut salad, and pressed ham terrine, sit happily alongside chunky vegetable soup with cheesy herb toasts, and beef and shallot hotpot. Martin first made his name in desserts, and his sweet tooth is certainly in evidence here in dishes such as damson clafoutis or caramelised pear and almond strudel. A great book for weekend cooking. Colour photos. Hardcover, 224 pp. $34.95.
 Supper for a Song
Tamasin Day-Lewis
With a loyal following of readers and cooks, new cookery books from Day-Lewis are always eagerly awaited. This book leads the cook back to comfort food at its best and who better to guide us. Hardcover, 192 pp. $42.95.
 Cook in Boots
Ravinder Bhogal
Prescribing to the philosophy of if you are what you eat, you should be eating something fabulous, London girl-about-town Ravinder Bhogal brings you into her world of shoes, food and fun. The book takes you on a coulourful romp, is divided by mood rather than by course or ingredient. There are recipes for every facet of the modern woman - laptop lunches for the working girl, tapas style menus for the socialite (and the mega omega breakfasts for the recovering socialite), budget friendly recipes for those feeling the pinch in their wallets, diet friendly selections for those feeling the pinch in the their jeans, menus for seducing the man and impressing the parents, and "lean on me cuisine" for those just needing a some comfort. Hardcover, 304 pp. $37.95.
 Great British Grub
Brian Turner
A veteran of the kitchens of the Savoy and Claridge’s, Brian Turner has also been involved with food programs on both Granada and the BBC. A promoter of traditional British food, Turner’s collection of pub food recipes includes all the iconic foods: toad in the hole, bubble and squeak, both angels and devils on horseback, jam roly-poly…There are also a few culinary invaders such as pizza and bbq ribs. A colour photo accompanies most recipes. Hardcover, 256 pp. $39.95.
 The Eagle Cookbook
David Eyres
The first cookbook from London's original gastropub, the Eagle, which was responsible for heralding in a new way of casual eating in Britain and beyond. The tone of the food here is mainly Spanish, with Portugese and French recipes too. The reicpes are generally gutsy; be it an Andalucian garlic soup with a soft boiled egg, smoked haddock risotto with saffron, fennel and peas, or lamb shanks with chickpeas. No desserts. Colour photos throughout. Hardcover, 192 pp. $43.95.
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