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• James Martin's Great British Winter Cookbook by James Martin

  

   

   

  There are more than 100 easy recipes, including all our winter favourites plus everything you need for a traditional British Halloween, Bonfire Night, Christmas and New Year. Easy-to-follow time plans for Christmas Day and New Years Day will take the stress out of preparing meals for your family and friends, and James guides you carefully through the seasons trickiest techniques, such as icing the Christmas cake. James includes recipes for traditional favourites and for dishes we have adopted as our own in ..

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• Delizia! by John Dickie

  

   

   

  As John Dickie's fascinating Delizia amply demonstrates, Italian food has enjoyed a cultural imperialism that few other than national cuisines have achieved. Subtitled The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food, Dickie's thoroughly researched (but highly accessible) book demonstrates that more chefs are in thrall to Italian cuisine (and its tried and trusted ingredients) than to that of any other nation, and while pasta remains a standard food for those whose pockets are empty, Italian cuisine graces..

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• Hungry City by Carolyn Steel

  

   

   

  Cities cover just 2 per cent of the world's surface, but consume 75 per cent of the world's resources. Global food production increased by 145 per cent in the last 4 decades of the 20th century - yet an estimated 800 million people are still hungry. In 2005, British supermarkets sent half a million tonnes of edible food to landfill - the whole food sector put together sent 17 million tonnes. One quarter of the British population is obese - one in three meals we eat is a ready meal, why? The relationship b..

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• The Complete Robuchon by Joel Robuchon

  

   

   

  THE COMPLETE ROBUCHON Joël Robuchon Grub Street Publishing WINNER OF THE GOURMAND COOKBOOK AWARDS BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEAR 2007 Price: £25.00 No. of Pages: 606 Size: 246 x 185mm October 2008 ISBN 978-1-906502-22-5 'Someone has to be top. In the past decade, nine out of ten restaurant critics would tell you that man is Joël Robuchon.' Giles Mcdonagh, Financial Times Robuchon is the most influential..

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• Confessions of an Eco-Shopper by Kate Lock

  

   

   

  Locally produced pesticides or far-flung organic? Cheap whole chicken or two organic drumsticks? The kitchen roll that soaks up spills or the recycled stuff that dissolves? It's all very well talking about reforming your shopping habits, but how easy is it to actually do it? And what can one really do to make a difference? Does it involve huge sacrifices? Is it a lot of extra work? Is it more expensive? Two years ago Kate Lock set herself a series of 'eco challenges' to find out the answe..

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