The Foody TravellerThe latest food and travel book reviews.
It has to be said we were bowled over by Adrian Martin’s excellent cookery book ‘Create Beautiful Food at Home’. It has indeed become one of our ‘go to’ books. And we can see the same thing happening with another of Adrian’s books ‘Fakeaway – Fast Food Made Healthy’. To be honest we rarely have […]
I wouldn’t have thought it possible to produce an entertaining, interesting and useful cookery book of nearly 300 pages on a single subject– but Steven Raichlen has done just that, his subject – Brisket. His skill and passion for brisket is summed up in the book’s sub title ‘How to barbeque, braise, smoke and cure […]
All books written by Elizabeth David, including reprints of earlier editions, are absolute joys. It was in 1954 that Italian Food written by Elizabeth David hit the UK book stores. It was a book destined to revolutionise the way UK cooks and their families, more used to years of rationing after World War II, looked […]
As a family we hate food waste. We’ll happily tuck into leftovers rather than toss them in the bin. However, we have never taken ‘left over’ cooking to the heights achieved by Sara Dickerman. Our left overs are more by accident than design or planning. Choose interesting ingredients But what a great idea to choose […]
There is a lot of truth, at least for many of us, that we also ‘eat with our eyes’. I certainly would much rather have small amounts of appetising looking food on a plate rather than a plate piled high. I do of course reserve the right to go back and ask for a second […]
Unless it is a phalaenopsis orchid, friends have long since learnt that the pretty pot plant they have just given me will probably be dead by the time their car has reached the end of the road. I have a fully justified reputation of being ‘bad with house plants’. However, Baylor Chapman’s book Decorating with […]