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If you ever find yourself in a breakfast rut, this is the book to reach for. Hugo Woolley is something of a master when it comes to the first meal of the day. This latest book from Hugo also includes recipes for that ingenious interlude between breakfast and lunch, that is brunch.
Hugo runs the Woodlands Park Hotel in Padstow with his wife Pippa, and breakfast is high on the agenda there.
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Written by (Rachel Allen)
Whether it’s cakes, cookies, breads or savoury bites, Rachel Allen bakes her heart out in this latest book. The book is decked out in pastel tones, and serves as a handy accomplice in the kitchen when you’re scratching your head and rubbing your stomach in search of a decent recipes.
Allen’s recipes for baked clams leaves you wishing you lived in a country with more than a rumour of sunshine, just so you could sit outside and consume the lot.
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The first meal of the day has always been something of an obsession for Hugo Woolley. A man quite defiantly in favour of the supposition that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, Hugo has put together a collection of some old favourites, modern flourishes and quite simply, quirky concoctions. With over 30 years of experience in the catering trade, including a stint running El Vino on Fleet Street, and another stint training up Bunny Girls in silver service, Hugo has quite possibly seen it all when it comes to breakfast.
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Written by Jacque Malouf
If your breakfast time has fallen into a bit of a culinary rut, then reach for this book. Jacque Malouf takes your taste buds through a morning tour of the globe with his selection of smoothies, cereals, brunches, and some inventive takes on the traditional fry-up.
Malouf looks at India, Morocco, and Thailand for inspiration without forgetting the beloved British take on the most important meal of the day.
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Celebrate the diverse flavours of Britain with over 130 recipes from the hit TV show ‘Britain’s Best Dish’. In 2007, ITV launched a search amongst the household kitchens of the country for the best British dish. Three judges, Ed Baines, John Burton Race and Jilly Gooden tasted their way through hundreds of dishes, from regional culinary delights to more adventurous worldly recipes and family favourites to dinner-party classics. This book compiles a top quality selection of the recipes, which of course received the seal of approval from the panel of critics.
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Written by Susy Atkins
This little book is a bible for party planning. It’s also filled with the kind of fun and frivolity that you only tend to experience at a particularly brilliant party. Before you even get as far as the introductory page, Susy Atkins urges the reader to be “generous” with measures for the occasions in the book where she has not specified exact numbers. Atkins advises on the social ritual of drinking throughout the book, whether you’re throwing a small gathering or an all out party, which refuses to abate until the sun comes up.
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Written by Patrick Harding.
This labour of love isn’t a guidebook to the mushrooms you’ll find under foot on your woodland walks, but more a wonderful book of everything else mushroom-like. Folklore, recipes, fables and facts have been woven into this quirky tome and make for addictive reading.
Long time mycologist, Patrick Harding, has many years under his belt as a university lecturer and has become something of an oracle on all things mushroom.
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Written by Trish Davies
Trish Davies, a chef who works with Jean Christophe Novelli at the Novelli Academy, has just published her eighth book, Cooking by Colour. Cooking by Colour is not specifically a diet book, it is a cookery book filled with recipes that stick to one key dietary principal: that you should eat all the colours of the rainbow in any plateful. Parts of this book might seem to be a bit fanciful, such as red foods being good if you need a boost of energy, but bad if you’re feeling angry.
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Written by Laura Santtini
Learn the rules of Italian cooking and then break them to create magical dishes, with this unique and empowering book from Laura Santtini.
Laura Santtini’s passion for food comes from her Italian grandmother and her parents who launched the Italian restaurant Santini’s in Belgravia, (which was famed for being Frank Sinatra’s all-time favourite eatery). As an avid cook she has mastered the skills required in transforming every day Italian dishes into unforgettable and simply magical food.
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