Cooking the books: My Little French Kitchen by Rachel Khoo
After a month (or two or three) hiatus, it’s time to get cooking the books back up and running. Recently my friend who has possibly more cookbooks than me, had…
Cookbooks
Cooking the books: Bacon The Cookbook by Niamh Shields
Bacon The Cookbook by Niamh Shields (aka Eat like a girl) was a resounding winner for this month’s cooking the books with well over half of you choosing it over…
Cooking the books: Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz
Ooops… This was meant to be posted in December but somehow, we’re in 2021 now and I’m a little bit late! But, here we go with my last 2020 and…
Cooking the books: Salt and Time by Alissa Timoskhina
This is a gorgeous book. Written by Russian born Alissa Timoshkina founder of KinoVino supper club among other things. I was fortunate to meet her at Abergavenny Food Festival last…
Meera Sodha’s East: vegan and vegetarian recipes from Bangalore to Beijing
Meera Sodha’s East is a wonderful cookbook and one I’ve used a lot during lockdown so far. I’d seen this book at my friend’s house but this is my first…
Cooking the books: good eating – suggestions for wartime dishes
I’ve just managed to squeeze Cooking the Books in before the calendar ticks into a new month. June has been a bit up and down here, with lockdown taking its…
Cooking the books: Samarkand
Just squeezing this in before the end of the month! May’s cooking the books looks at Samarkand – recipes & stories from Central Asia & the Caucasus – as chosen…
Cooking the books: we’ll eat again – wartime recipes
After a year long hiatus (and maybe more), March saw the return of my cooking the books series. To recap, if you missed last month’s post, this is something I…
Cooking the books: Mandalay, recipes and tales from a Burmese kitchen
.After a year long hiatus (and maybe more), it’s time for cooking the books! I put the shout out on twitter earlier in the month and you spoke, as you…
Modern Baking by Donna Hay
You all know by now that I have more than a slight obsession with cookbooks. I scour the charity shops and love visiting bookshops. And I’m lucky enough that sometimes,…