Book reviews

Think making jam is just for the Women’s Institute? Think again!

Canteen took the London restaurant scene by storm in 2005. Their no-nonsense, modern-meets-classic menu has brought British cooking to the High Street once more.

Michel Roux’s updated cookbook is a nifty enyclopedia of all the sauces, marinades, emulsions and dressings you need to enhance your cooking, and take dishes to new heights of yumminess.

Now kids can get to grips with wholesome and authentic Italian cooking with these 40 recipes that have been adapted from the original Italian cookery bible, ‘The Silver Spoon’.

If there’s one book that will inspire you to cook up a storm this winter, this is it.

Learn the rules of Italian cooking and then break them to create magical dishes, with this unique and empowering book from Laura Santtini.

Tom Kitchin shares 100 mouth-watering French and European inspired recipes dedicated to seasonal eating and fresh ingredients from his homeland.

Celebrate the diverse flavours of Britain with over 130 recipes from the hit TV show ‘Britain’s Best Dish’.

A personable and engaging guidebook that will spur your inner-foodie to come out.

Rick Stein’s Far Eastern Odyssey will transport your senses to the aromatic and enthralling culinary world of Southeast Asia.

Morfudd Richards’s mouth-watering book is the definitive guide to the sinful world of iced deserts.

Valentine Warner has proved to be an authority in rustling up healthy and no-fuss dishes using seasonal produce.