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Susie Orbach

'Eating is pleasurable, eating is delicious, eating is sensual' says Susie. But for so many of us eating is associated with anguish and abstinence. From the first page this little book shows us how to think and feel differently about what we eat. So that we eat when we are hungry, eat what we want to eat to satisfy us and stop when we are full. Each page contains an easily absorbed bite-sized statement to transform eating that hurts into eating that nourishes and calms. This book isn't magic but it feels as if it is.

Susie Orbach on Eating

Sophie Richards

Inspired by her own journey to recovery after years of living with daily pain, women’s health champion and certified hormonal health practitioner, Sophie Richards, offers her simple, empowering guide to an anti-inflammatory lifestyle to help others find their way past unwanted symptoms or discomfort. 
 
Using this book, you will learn to understand inflammation as a root cause of countless gut and health issues and discover how resetting your diet and implementing simple lifestyle tweaks can have a lasting, life-changing impact. Sophie's 30-day plan will not only help you feel better right now, but will set you up for a lifetime of vibrancy and happiness.

The Anti-Inflammatory 30-day Reset

Simple Steps to Transform Your Health for Good

Ruth Reichl

Garlic and Sapphires is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine undetected when she takes on the much coveted and highly prestigious job of New York Times restaurant critic. 
Reichl knows that to be a good critic she has to be anonymous - but her picture is posted in every four-star, low-star kitchen in town and so she embarks on an extraordinary - and hilarious - undercover game of disguise - keeping even her husband and son in the dark. There is her stint as Molly, a frumpy blonde in an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque resulting in a double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and then as she was coddled and pampered on her visit there as Ruth, New York Times food critic. Then there is the eccentric, mysterious red head on whom her husband - both disconcertingly and reassuringly - develops a terrible crush. She becomes Brenda the earth mother, Chloe the seductress and even Miriam her own (deceased) mother. 
What is even more remarkable about Reichl's spy games is that as she takes on these various guises, she finds herself changed not just physically, but also in character revealing how one's outer appearance can very much influence one's inner character, expectations, and appetites.

Garlic And Sapphires

Lydia Pang

‘Touching, absorbing and unflinching… shows you how to stomach life’s shit, celebrate the ugly, and keep going' Angela Hui 
 
Eat bitter is a Chinese proverb meaning ‘endure hardship to taste sweetness.’ For Lydia Pang, it embodies the struggles of her Hakka ancestors, a persecuted Chinese ethnic group whose ingenuity shaped a food culture rooted in fermenting and foraging. 
 
Pang reimagines eating bitter as a philosophy to confront her own challenges: burning out, testing her marriage, navigating fertility struggles and caring for a parent. Through eight recipes, she shares food as memory and medicine: the silly egg noodles her father cooked when her sister was ill, the bone broth she boiled in New York while homesick and courgettes grown in rural Wales as a gesture of reconnection. 
 
Eat Bitter is a beautiful and fearless exploration of food and feelings – with bite – for fans of Crying in H Mart, Butter and Midnight Chicken.

Eat Bitter

A Story About Guts and Food

C Pam Zhang

A rapturous novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world 
 
'A startling prose hymn to food and sex, love and violence' GUARDIAN 
'Unique, ambitious, haunting' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 
'Truly exceptional' ROXANE GAY 
'Superb' DOUGLAS STUART 
 
A smog has spread, food is disappearing, and a chef escapes her career in London to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony: an experiment in a new way of living and eating. There, her mysterious employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste and touch. Before long, she is pushed to discover the real nature of the project: a startling attempt to reshape the world far beyond the place. 
 
Land of Milk and Honey is a striking novel about food, sex and the intricacies of desire. 
 
'It&rsquo;s hard not be mesmerised by prose that is as rich and as startling as the food her protagonist prepares' OBSERVER 
'An astounding book' CALEB AZUMAH NELSON 
'The most sensual novel about food I have ever read' EMMA DONOGHUE

Land of Milk and Honey

Sue Teddern

Katharine Whitehorn

Both series of the engaging romantic comedy set in a 1960s bedsit, inspired by Katharine Whitehorn's cookery classic 
 
It&rsquo;s 1964, and 22-year-old Trisha moves into a West Hampstead bedsitter to escape her controlling suburban parents and her boring fiancé, Keith. She&rsquo;s determined to make it as a swinging, get-ahead girl-about-town, but finds herself struggling with homesickness, loneliness and the challenges of cooking a decent meal on a single gas ring. 
 
Then she rescues a grotty wardrobe from her landlady&rsquo;s attic, and it yields a surprising treasure &ndash; a copy of Cooking in a Bedsitter, which becomes her bible. Soon, she&rsquo;s rustling up tasty treats for dinner parties and double dates &ndash; aided by Deepak, the dishy young medical student from across the landing. 
 
He introduces her to the delights of aloo pakora, she surprises him with a picnic at the seaside &ndash; but when their burgeoning relationship is snuffed out by Trisha&rsquo;s parents, she moves on, to a different bedsit and a new man. She&rsquo;s definitely over Deepak: or is she? If she wants him back, she&rsquo;ll have to move fast &ndash; before he heads out of her life forever... 
 
Written by Sue Teddern (soloparentpals.com), and interspersed with recipes and extracts from Katharine Whitehorn&rsquo;s original book, this appetising romcom stars Beattie Edmondson and Nikesh Patel. 
 
 
Production credits 
Written by Sue Teddern 
Inspired by Cooking in a Bedsitter by Katharine Whitehorn 
Extracts from Cooking in a Bedsitter read by Karen Bartke and Eleanor Bron 
Directed by Emma Harding 
 
Cast 
Trisha &ndash; Beattie Edmondson 
Deepak &ndash; Nikesh Patel 
June &ndash; Alison Belbin/Ellie Darvill 
Len &ndash; John Bowler/Rupert Holliday-Evans 
Tony &ndash; John Dougall 
Katharine Whitehorn &ndash; Karen Bartke/Eleanor Bron 
Jill &ndash; Natasha Cowley 
Keith/Mike &ndash; Finlay Robertson 
The Hunk/Stuart &ndash; Luke MacGregor 
Male Guest/Big Nev &ndash; Gavi Singh Chera 
Female Guest/Sal &ndash; Catriona McFarlane 
Moira &ndash; Isabella Inchbald 
Robert &ndash; Clive Hayward 
Karl &ndash; Adam Fitzgerald 
Julie/Clare/Susie &ndash; Abbie Andrews 
Policeman &ndash; Neil McCaul 
Malcolm &ndash; Gary Duncan 
Errol &ndash; Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong 
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 28 Nov-19 Dec 2016 (series 1) and 4 Dec-25 Dec 2017 (series 2). 
 
&copy; 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2024 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Cooking in a Bedsitter: The Complete Series 1 and 2

A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom

Nicola Baldwin

Amanda Whittington

A delicious culinary drama about a cake-making club and their very special creations 
 
Every year, Tess and Maggie meet up to try a different activity, something they've never done together before. This year, it's baking, and for a few hours each Friday afternoon, they put the rest of their lives on hold to make cakes. And not just ordinary cakes, but spectacular, unique and glorious gateaux, to celebrate special occasions and commemorate landmark events. 
 
When they help a neighbour in distress, they create their first showstopper - a dark, sultry Bitter Chocolate Cake. Soon, the Cake Club is cooking up a host of teatime treats, from sticky, gingery parkin, to feather-light fairy cakes, to the challenging Scripture Cake, with a recipe that consists entirely of Bible verses. 
 
As they measure out sugar, butter, eggs and flour, they share their secrets, problems and personal dilemmas - and forge friendships that will last long after the final cake crumbs have been consumed... 
 
Written by award-winning dramatists Nicola Baldwin and Amanda Whittington, this gentle, heartwarming series features an outstanding cast including Lesley Sharp, Tamsin Greig, Nisha Nayar, Neil Dudgeon, Louise Brealey and Sheila Hancock. 
 
Production credits 
Written by Nicola Baldwin and Amanda Whittington 
Produced by Steven Canny, Abigail le Fleming, Gemma Jenkins and Luke Fresle 
 
Cast 
Maggie - Lesley Sharp 
Tess - Tamsin Greig 
Ray - Neil Dudgeon 
Sabina - Nisha Nayar 
Neil - Stephen Hogan 
Leanne - Louise Brealey 
Nicky - Matthew Dunster 
Momo - Leena Dhingra 
Chrissie - Stephanie Leonidas 
Janice - Sheila Hancock 
Matty - Joe Prospero 
 
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, 25 January-29 February 2008 
 
© 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd 
(p) 2021 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Have Your Cake

A delicious BBC Radio 4 full-cast drama

Elizabeth David

'She has the intelligence, subtlety, sensuality, courage and creative force of the true artist' - Wine and Food 
 
A classic in its genre, An Omelette and a Glass of Wine compiles Elizabeth David's short pieces on food and wine. 
 
A bestseller when it was first published in 1984, much of David's finest writing featured in magazines and newspapers such as the Spectator, the Sunday Times and Harper's, and these pieces contain tantalizing glimpses of her very private life. 
 
An Omelette and a Glass of Wine is an exquisite collection that demonstrates the talent that made Elizabeth David the most celebrated food writer of her time.

An Omelette And a Glass of Wine

Fast,  funny, always near the knuckle.The best kind of food writing - it makes you hungry'  Elizabeth Luard'While all good food writers are humorous.few are so riotously, effortlessly entertaining as Ruth Reichl..[She] is also witty, fair-minded, brave, and a wonderful writer'  New York Times Review of Books At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that 'food could be a way of making sense of the world. If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were.'  Her deliciously crafted memoir, Tender at the Bone, is the story of a life determined, enhanced, and defined in equal measure by a passion for food, unforgettable people and the love of tales well told.  Beginning with Reichl's mother, the notorious food poisoner known as the Queen of the Mold, Reichl introduces us to the fascinating characters who shaped her world and her tastes, from the gourmand Monsieur du Croix, who served Reichl her first soufflé, to those at her politically correct table in Berkeley who championed the organic food revolution in the 1970s.  Spiced with Reichl's infectious humour and sprinkled with her favourite recipes, Tender at the Bone is a witty and compelling chronicle of a culinary sensualist's coming-of-age.

Tender At The Bone

In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales full of love, life, humour and marvellous meals. Ruth Reichl's pursuit of good food and good company leads her to New York and China, France and Los Angeles.  She cooks and dines with world-famous chefs and the three star aristocracy of French cuisine, and her accounts of these meetings range from the madcap to the sublime.  Reichl lovingly recreates all her marvellous meals in such succulent detail that readers will yearn from truffles in Provence and shrimp in Beijing. Throughout it all, Reichl is unafraid, even eager, to poke holes in the pretensions of food critics, making each and every course a hilarious and instructive occasion for novices and experts alike.  She shares some of her first recipes so readers can make the Dry-Fried Shrimp she first tasted in China, or the Dacquoise served at the end of a magical visit to a Paris bistro.  Reichl also shares the intimacies of her personal life in a style so honest and warm that readers will feel they are enjoying a cosy dining-table conversation with a friend. In Comfort Me With Apples, Reichl again demonstrates her inimitable ability to combine food writing, humour and memoir into an art form.

Comfort Me With Apples

Love, Adventure and a Passion for Cooking

Gabrielle Hamilton

'Magnificent’ Anthony Bourdain 
 
A sharply crafted and unflinchingly honest memoir. This is a rollicking, passionate story of food, purpose and family. 
 
Blood, Bones &amp; Butter follows the chef Gabrielle Hamilton's extraordinary journey through the places she has inhabited over the years: the rural kitchen of her childhood, where her adored mother stood over the six-burner with wooden spoon in hand; the kitchens of France, Greece, and Turkey, where she was often fed by complete strangers and learned the essence of hospitality; and the kitchen of her beloved Italian mother-in-law, who serves as the link between Hamilton's idyllic past and her own future family. 
 
‘Evocative…dazzling…beautifully written’ New York Times 
 
Perfect for fans of Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.

Blood, Bones and Butter

The inadvertent education of a reluctant chef

Mike Dow

Foods can create chemical reactions in the brain similar to those experienced from drugs. Recent scientific research has shown that it takes two days to detox from cocaine but TWO WEEKS to detox from junk food. It's simply not our fault we crave certain foods; we're addicted to how they make us feel. 
 
But using training from the world-famous Betty Ford Center in California, Dr Mike Dow will guide you through his pain-free 28-day weight-loss programme. Watch the pounds drop off! 
 
Dr Dow shows us how to withdraw painlessly from bad foods and looks at why we craved them in the first place. In just four weeks, you will have lost weight and be completely free from all your food cravings. 
 
Check into Dr Dow's Diet Rehab and rid yourself of all your food addictions.

Diet Rehab

Beat food cravings and lose weight in just 28 days

Novak Djokovic

'A remarkable book' The Independent 
'... a revelatory read.' The Guardian 
 
What readers are saying: 
 
***** 'A lot more than just the diet Djokovic follows. It's about his whole approach to life' 
***** 'Revolutionised my diet. A year on, I feel like a different person and much healthier' 
 
In Serve to Win, Djokovic recounts how he survived the bombing of Belgrade, rising from a war-torn childhood to the top tier of his sport. He also reveals the diet that transformed his health and pushed him to the pinnacle. 
 
While Djokovic loved and craved bread, pasta and the pizza from his family's restaurant, he discovered that his body couldn't process wheat. 
 
A player once plagued by aches, breathing difficulties and injuries on court suddenly became the number-one tennis player in the world simply by changing what he ate. Eliminating gluten made him feel instantly better, clearer, lighter and quicker. His new physical health and mental focus enabled him to achieve his two childhood dreams: to win Wimbledon and to be ranked the world's number-one tennis player. 
 
He has gone on to win 22 Grand Slams, crediting his diet with making this possible. 
 
Djokovic challenges you to try his way of eating for just 14 days. He provides weekly menus and easy-to-prepare recipes that will help you lose weight and find your way to a better you. You don't need to be a professional athlete to start living and feeling better. A trimmer, stronger, healthier you is just two weeks away.

Serve To Win

Novak Djokovic’s life story with diet, exercise and motivational tips

Andreas Staïkos

Dimitris and Damocles live in the same block of flats. They share a love of cooking, and, it soon transpires, a lover - Nana. What follows is the story of their competition to win Nana's heart through her appetite. As the plates pile up, and the recipes grow ever more mouth watering, a bizarre and comic duel develops, fought with sea-urchin salads, stuffed vine leaves and delicacies from all corners of the Aegean to win the consummate femme fatale or to end up with the sting in the tail...

Les Liaisons Culinaires

Lawrence Osborne

‘I am taking a few months off to travel and wander, drinking my way across the Islamic world to see whether I can dry myself out, cure myself of a bout of alcoholic excess. It is a personal crisis, a private curiosity… I am curious to see how non-drinkers live. Perhaps they have something to teach me.’ 
 
Booze is mankind's premier drug of choice, the most popular mind-altering substance ever devised, and it plays a furtive, celebrated and subversive role in nearly every culture on earth. In The Wet and the Dry, Lawrence Osborne explores the culture of permission, particularly in the West, and the opposing culture of prohibition, notably in the Islamic East. 
 
Osborne’s globe-trotting odyssey takes him from the luxurious bars of Milan to the vineyards of Lebanon, threatened by Hezbollah; from Swedish vodka to Pakistani strawberry gin; from the Nellie Dean pub in Soho to the dangerous brothels and drinking dens on the Malaysian border; from the boutique scotch produced on Islay to the liquor destroying Native American reservations; and from the only brewery in the dry country of Pakistan to the search for a bottle of New Year’s champagne in Oman. All the while, Osborne’s own Irish family history of terrifying alcoholism fails to deter him from seeking out a drink wherever he can.

The Wet And The Dry

A Drinker's Journey

Marlena de Blasi

'If you loved Under the Tuscan Sun, you’ll love this' Red Magazine 
 
 
Every week on a Thursday evening, a group of four rural Italian women gather in an old stone house in the hills above Italy’s Orvieto. There – along with their friend, Marlena – they cook together, sit down to a beautiful supper, drink their beloved local wines, and talk. 
 
Surrounded by candle light, good food and friendship, the four women tell Marlena their evocative life stories, and of cherished ingredients and recipes whose secrets have been passed down through generations.

The Umbrian Thursday Night Supper Club

Stephen Wildish

Headache? Confusion? Waves of nausea and regret? 
 
Luckily, thanks to this handy book, a hangover no longer has to mean a ruined day. 
 
Use infographics and flowcharts to diagnose which hangover type you are suffering from and find the best treatments to help you on the road back to full health: 
 
The bottomless pit 
The 'I'm still drunk' 
The Exorcist 
The emotional boomerang 
The lucky escape 
The undeserved 
 
If you are spraying the walls with last night's kebab and this morning's Berocca, you are going to need a very big glass of water... 
 
With simple hangover cures and advice on how to tackle the clean-up (social AND physical) this book is the perfect remedy for all your 'morning after' regrets.

How to Hangover

An illustrated guide

Elly McCausland

Are you hyped from the Eras tour? Does your group chat blow up every time Taylor drops an album? Is Tay Tay top of your Spotify Wrapped? 
 
If this sounds like you, then this culinary ode to the Swiftieverse will hit all the right notes. These baking recipes capture everything we love about Taylor Swift’s creations – the lyrics, the vibes, the emotional journey – and delivers fun desserts and snacks perfect for your next party, including: 
 
You Belong With Brie * Love Story Cake * I Knew You Were Truffles * Loving Him Was Bread * Karma Cat Cookies * and many more. 
 
These 'era' inspired tasty treats will elevate you to a superstar in the kitchen. 
 
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Bake it Off

Tasty Taylor Swift-Inspired Bakes

Simon Wroe

Two months behind on his rent, young graduate Monocle swallows his dreams and takes the only job he can find: the lowest-rung chef in a gastropub in Camden. Here he finds himself surrounded by a group of deranged, criminal hoodlums (his co-workers) and at the mercy of an ingenious sadist (the head chef, Bob). What follows is a furiously-paced, ribald, raucous and deeply touching tale of loyalty and revenge, dark appetites and fading dreams, and a young man finding his way in the world as he is plunged into the fat and the frying pan and everything else besides.

Chop Chop

Milton Crawford

The drilling headache, the waves of nausea, the paranoia, the guilt, the shame - yes, it's the dreaded HANGOVER. 
 
We are all familiar with the general misery. What is less well known is the nuances of the hungover state. According to P.G. Wodehouse there are six different types of hangover that can bring the high-spirited reveller to his or her knees, and each requires a very specific remedy. 
 
With delicious and restorative recipes - from Milton's zingy knickerbocker glory to his irresistible tahini and tomato toast, the English Breakfast tortilla to Mexican ranch-style eggs - The Hungover Cookbook invites you to transform dealing with a hangover into a subtle, multi-faceted and enjoyable art instead of merely chucking a 'full English' at it. 
 
This witty self-help manual helps the morning after drinker to identify the nature of ones hangover and tailor the treatment accordingly.

The Hungover Cookbook

Julie Powell

Trapped in a boring job and living in a tiny apartment in New York, Julie Powell regularly finds herself weeping on the way home from work. Then one night, through her mascara-smudged eyes, Julie notices that the few items she's grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage Parmentier, as described in Julia Childs' legendary cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking. And The Project is born. 
 
Julie begins to cook - every one of the 524 recipes in the book, in the space of just one year. This is Julie's story, as gradually, from oeufs en cocotte to bifstek sauté au beurre, from "Bitch Rice" to preparing live lobsters, she realises that this deranged Project is changing her life. The richness of the thousands of sauces she slaves over is beginning to spread into her life, and she begins to find the joie de vivre that has been missing for too many years.

Julie & Julia

My Year of Cooking Dangerously

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*The perfect Valentine (or galentine) gift for fans of Sarah J. Maas, Rebecca Yarros and Raven Kennedy* 
 
Delicious drinks with a slow burn 
 
With 60 toe-curling tipples and scrumptious spritzes inspired by your favourite romantic stories, realms and tropes, A Coupe of Thorns and Rosé is the perfect companion to add some serious spice to your reading nook or bookclub. 
 
Whether you fancy an Atlas Spritz to toast to bitter rivals, a High Lady to serve your Shadow Daddy, or an Empyrean Espresso Martini to bond over, this book has a drink for every romantasy fan (even Tam stans - try the Green-eyed Fairy). 
 
With beautiful illustrations throughout, simple methods and a reading checklist, this is an absolute must for any TBR.

A Coupe of Thorns and Rosé

Romantasy cocktails to quench your thirst

Andrea McLean

'Read this book! It's so brilliant, it's really going to help you.' Zoe Ball 
'Brilliantly practical, down-to-earth guide ... It's like sitting down with a good friend who has the best advice.' Psychologies magazine 
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The menopause. An emotionally complex issue that can trigger a whole host of physical and mental side effects. So why aren't we talking about it? 
This is the book that Andrea McLean wished for as she found herself in uncharted territory, grappling with the physical aftershock of a hysterectomy and the psychological fallout of a difficult menopause. Typically candid, covering all you need to know, including tips and tricks on diet, exercise and even your sex life, Andrea brings her trademark humour and honesty to a very hot topic. 
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 Readers love Confessions of a Menopausal Woman: 
 
 'Brilliant read. Warm, funny, inspiring and oh so true.' 
 
'Practical, honest . . . written in Andrea's comfortable, emotive, humorous, around-the-kitchen-table style!' 
'Reading this book not only helped me to understand my symptoms but it also helped me to realise that I am not going through this alone.'

Confessions of a Menopausal Woman

Everything you want to know but are too afraid to ask…

Angela Liddon

One of the trailblazers of plant-based cooking, Angela Liddon's irresistible and foolproof recipes have become the gold standard for this type of food. Her phenomenally popular blog and bestselling debut, The Oh She Glows Cookbook, have amassed millions of fans worldwide, eager for her latest recipes. 
 
Now, in this highly anticipated follow-up cookbook, Liddon shares creative, accessible and delicious ideas that are perfect for busy lifestyles, promising to make plant-based eating convenient every day of the week, not forgetting special occasions. 
 
Filled with more than 100 family-friendly recipes, including simple smoothies, breakfasts, snacks and staples, you'll find meals and treats that everyone will love, such as Homemade Sunflower Seed Butter, Lentil-Mushroom Bolognese, Sweet Potato Casserole, Rainbow Quinoa Salad, Ultimate Flourless Brownies and Cookie Dough Balls. Oh She Glows Every Day also includes useful store-cupboard suggestions and tips for kid-, allergy-, and freezer-friendly cooking. 
 
A beautiful go-to cookbook from one of the internet's most popular voices in food, Oh She Glows Every Day proves that it's possible to cook simple, nourishing and tasty meals - even on a busy schedule.

Oh She Glows Every Day

Quick and simply satisfying plant-based recipes

Pocket clothbound volumes from the world's greatest poets, and with a stunning range of anthologies. Each volume has an elegant jacket, full cloth sewn binding, silk ribbon marker and headbands, with gold stamping on front and spine and decorative endpapers. In size, price and presentation they make ideal gifts and are a joy to read and collect. More than eighty titles in print.

Eating and drinking and the rituals that go with them are at least as important as loving in most people’s lives, yet for every hundred anthologies of poems about love, hardly one is devoted to the pleasures of the table. Poems of Food and Drink abundantly fills the gap. All kinds of foods and beverages are laid out in these pages, along with picnics and banquets, intimate suppers and quiet dinners, noisy parties and public celebrations – in poems by Horace, Catullus, Hafiz, Rumi, Rilke, Moore, Nabokov, Updike, Mandelstam, Stevens, and many others. From Sylvia Plath’s ecstatic vision of juice-laden berries in ‘Blackberrying’ to D. H. Lawrence’s lush celebration of ‘Figs’, from the civilized comfort of Noël Coward’s ‘Something on a Tray’ to the salacious provocation of Swift’s ‘Oysters’, from Li Po on ‘Drinking Alone’ to Baudelaire on ‘The Soul of the Wine’, and from Emily Dickinson’s ‘Forbidden Fruit’ to Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘A Miracle for Breakfast’, Poems of Food and Drink serves up a tantalizing and variegated literary feast.

Poems Of Food And Drink

Annabel Karmel

By the age of nine months, many babies want to start feeding themselves but can't yet handle a spoon, which is when finger foods come into their own. They're also great to offer to toddlers who are prone to go into 'meltdown' just before dinner. This essential collection of tempting, nutritious finger foods features 100 quick and easy recipes, including fresh fruit ice lollies - perfect for soothing sore gums -  goujons of fish and raw vegetables with dip, that will  not only introduce your baby to new textures and tastes but will make for a healthy, happy and contented child.

Top 100 Finger Foods

Rick Stein

‘All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why’ 
 
Rick Stein's childhood in 1950s rural Oxfordshire and North Cornwall was idyllic. His parents were charming and gregarious, their five children much-loved and given freedom typical of the time. As he grew older, the holidays were filled with loud and lively parties in his parents' Cornish barn. But ever-present was the unpredicatible mood of his bipolar father, with Rick frequently the focus of his anger and sadness. 
 
When Rick was 18 his father killed himself. Emotionally adrift, Rick left for Australia, carrying a suitcase stamped with his father's initials. Manual labour in the outback followed by adventures in America and Mexico toughened up the naive public schoolboy, but at heart he was still lost and unsure what to do with his life. 
 
Eventually, Cornwall called him home. From the entrepreneurial days of his mobile disco, the Purple Tiger, to his first, unlikely unlikely nightclub where much of the time was spent breaking up drink-fuelled fights, Rick charts his personal journey in a way that is both wry and perceptive; engaging and witty. 
 
Shortlisted for the Specsavers National Book Awards 2013

Under a Mackerel Sky

Cerys Matthews

Wherever Cerys Matthews travels she loves to eat where the locals eat, drink the local brew, enjoying great food, songs and company. And she always wants to bring back what she's learnt when she comes home. Now, out of a lifetime on the lookout for easy, tasty, flexible meals, Cerys dishes up her favourite tastes and sounds from around the globe, mixing them in with memories of her travels, stories and poems from each country and the odd killer cocktail. With these standout playlists on your system and a glass of wine on the go, get the pans bubbling and cook the world from your kitchen: the heart of the house, the middle of the action.

Where the Wild Cooks Go

Recipes, Music, Poetry, Cocktails

Harry Eastwood

DELICIOUS WHEAT-FREE CAKES THAT WILL REVOLUTIONISE YOUR BAKING 
 
Harry Eastwood loves cake: from light, fluffy Victoria Sponge to dark and delicious Forbidden Chocolate Brownies. In Red Velvet &amp; Chocolate Heartache, she has fiddled, tweaked and thought outside the box to pioneer a way of bringing exquisite cakes that remain natural and healthy into our everyday lives - by introducing ingredients from the vegetable garden. Ginger Sticky Toffee Pudding made with parsnip, or Orange Squash Cupcakes made with butternut squash are bound to amuse and delight your tastebuds. 
 
In this spirited cookery book, Harry shares her baking secrets and practical knowledge as a cook and as a food writer to prove that it is possible to have your cake and eat it.

Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartache

A. J. Liebling

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While on a year of study in Paris in 1927, Liebling acquired the friendship and tutelage of Yves Mirande, 'one of the last great gastronomes of France', beginning a joyous apprenticeship in the fine art of eating. Told with gluttonous joie de vivre, Between Meals expounds on the delights and pitfalls of a life dedicated to food, from bad rosé ('a pinkish cross between No-Cal and vinegar') to lobster a l'Américaine ('I have never personally inquired into the mysteries of its fabrication; I am content to love a masterpiece of painting without asking how the artist mixed his colours'), to a memorable stay at a Swiss slimming clinic with a masseur named Sprudli. Witty, grouchy and full of gusto, Between Meals has the exquisite sensuality of a Michelin-starred meal and the delicious, catty wit of the perfect dinner guest. It is a love song to food, wine and Paris. 
 
With an introduction by James Salter.

Between Meals

An Appetite for Paris

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