Category: Book Reviews

Aaron and Susannah Rickard have mastered the skill of adding alcohol to food to a fine and delicious art.

Author Niamh Shields obviously rates bacon highly, so highly she has written a book about it. And a jolly good book it is too. In fact, every time I look at the cover, let alone explore the recipes, I smile and can ‘smell’ bacon cooking! Is there, I pondered, a more evocative smell and sound […]

I have long been a devotee of Delicious recipes as a glance along my book shelves or magazine rack will reveal. I love the Delicious straightforward approach to recipes and I don’t think I have, as yet, found a recipe of theirs that hasn’t worked. Create your own book But I now have an extra […]

The book tells the story behind Matt Hranek’s appreciation and fascination for this famous cocktail.

John Hilary

Richard Fidler has a rare gift for words: seemingly effortlessly engaging with both his subject and the reader, transporting the latter through fact upon fact revealed by his in-depth research, yet also with a lightness of touch, compassion, eloquence and gentle humour. Having devoured two of his earlier books Saga Land and Ghost Empire I […]