Category: Recommendations

What’s cooking: Heston at home

Heston at home is the first cook book that I bought in a while and it’s totally different from the books I usually buy. But having seen his show Heston’s Mission Impossible on Channel 4 I’m a bit of a fan. Particularly the episode where…

Plenty

A good friend of mine showed me the Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi cookbook back in December and I immediately ordered it . It arrived before christmas, I had a short look through it and wondered why I ordered it –  didn’t speak to me at…

Cookieboy

Nina from toujours toi pointed this out to. cookieboy is a japanese “boy” who makes the most stunning cookies, go see for yourself – pure art! cookieboy.boy.jp/works/index.html

Tom Aikens Fish

Another cook book I recently bought is Fish by Tom Aikens. I can only recommend it, especially to people who like fish but are concerned by the state of our oceans and fish stock. “We are constantly being told about the benefits of eating fish…

Nigel Slater “Tender”

I just bought the new cookbook from Nigel Slater and adore it. All about vegetables in the kitchen and in the garden. The perfect book for a cook with his own vegetable patch like myself. It’s the first cookbook I read like a book. I…

Foodzie

I just came across this site. Foozie is an online marketplace where you can discover and buy food directly from small passionate food producers and growers. “Our small piece of that mission is to help the small food producers across the country find customers and…