Books

Trattoria

Written by Ursula Ferrigno This book speaks from the view point of Italy’s many trattorias. These often family-run eateries serve up some of Italy’s best-loved dishes from bowlfuls of zucchini minestrone to the completely satisfying likes of meatballs and spaghetti. Ferrigno takes us through her experiences of Italy’s trattorias and fills this book with recipes of the dishes she’s experienced. There are also dishes featured in the book from chefs of various trattorias throughout Italy that Ferrigno encountered.

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Vefa’s Kitchen

Written by (Vefa Alexiadou) If there’s one thing that there isn’t enough of in the UK, it’s the Greek restaurant. International cuisine definitely has a platform in Britain, but for some reason we never seem spoiled for choice when it comes to somewhere to smash a few plates and savour a plate of fried squid. Vefa’s Kitchen has been published in 2009 – the year of the very ongoing credit crunch.

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Warm Bagels and Apple Strudel

Written by Ruth Joseph & Simon Round Let’s get the limitations over with straight away. In this book you will find no shellfish, no pork (only meat from animals ‘with cloven hooves that chew the cud’), no rare meat, no meat and dairy together, and no meat and fish together. Them’s the rules, or the kashrut, as Jewish dietary law is properly called. Get past that and what you will find is something you perhaps wouldn’t expect from a humble cookbook: a history – an edible history – of an ethnic culture that stretches back six millennia.

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What to Eat Now - More Please!

Written by (Valentine Warner) Valentine Warner has proved to be an authority in rustling up healthy and no-fuss dishes using seasonal produce. He has a gust of enthusiasm that will sweep you off your bottom and straight into the kitchen. Coinciding with his new series for BBC TWO, (‘What to Eat Now’), What to Eat Now, More Please includes over one hundred spring and summer dishes, including light breakfasts, bbqs, picnic ideas as well as simple lunches and suppers.

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