Turkish delights: the best of the year’s cookbooks
The vegetarian treats Ozlem Warren offers us from her Turkish kitchen might inspire a bulk-buy of filo pastry. Other recipes from Nigel Slater, Ben Shewry and Jess Elliott Dennison
A choice of this year’s cook books
Recipes and food history from Blanche Vaughan, Sky McAlpine, Pen Vogler, Fuschia Dunlop and Fred Hogge, among others
A choice of this year’s cook books
There’s advice on pressure cooking and butter-making, plus simple recipes for family meals, Mediterranean vegan dishes and south Asian specialities
Lockdown creations: the best of the year’s cookery books reviewed
‘I may, one day, stop making notes and writing down recipes,’ Nigel Slater says in A Cook’s Book (Fourth Estate,…
Sunshine on a plate: the year’s best cookbooks
In the dark days of a terrible winter, Elizabeth David began writing her first book, about Mediterranean food. The timing…
When Idi Amin threatened to shoot the cook
Private chefs keep many secrets and are expected to go to their graves without sharing a morsel of gossip about…
Make it an applefest this Christmas — the best of the year’s cookbooks
If it were not for a banker with a hangover, we would not have Eggs Benedict. Or so one of…
Will it be kid pie this Christmas?
A long and messy business is how the chef Rowley Leigh explains his preferred way of eating. Picking at a…
Culinary cold war at the White House
‘Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are.’ The best known adage in food literature,…
Menus on the wild side
The terroir of the Kentish coast is faultlessly represented in The Sportsman (Phaidon, £29.95), a book of recipes from an…
Dinners for beginners
Never mind teaching children to cook: they need to be taught to eat. Obvious? Totally, but this is the choosing…
From toad in the hole to seal soup: the best new cookbooks
Timing is everything, and few cookbooks come at an apter moment than Mamushka (Mitchell Beazley, £25) by the excellently named…
A kitchen-garden renaissance
Considerable areas of our memory are taken up with food: it might be the taste of Mother’s sponge, the melting…
A mouth-watering selection: 2014’s best eight cookery books
The people behind the people are the ones to watch for, and we have all been waiting for a book…
