Is a practical guide to the world's most popular fruits and vegetables, featuring colour photographs with detailed descriptions, selection tips, and guidelines on peeling, blanching, cooking and eating.

Here, Elizabeth David deals with all aspects of flour-milling, yeast, bread ovens, and the different types of bread and flour available. The recipes cover yeast cookery of all kinds, including old-fashioned spiced buns, buns, pancakes, and muffins.

Showing the importance of locally-produced, fresh food, this book is divided into sections covering: Fish - kippers, lobster, mussels and scallops, trout; Meat and Game - meat pies, salting meat, and others; Vegetables - asparagus, carrots, and others; Fruit - apple, gooseberries, and others. It contains the recipe of curried parsnip soup.

Famed for charcuterie since Roman times, France has a long tradition of turning the pig into a range of delicious food products. Jane Grigson introduces the techniques used to transform the humble pig into a variety of famous dishes.

Contains a long essay on French cuisine and offers background stories and sketches of recipes. This book starts with a short essay on each of the major culinary regions of France. It consists of chapters on cuisine by type of dish such as: Sauces, Hors-D'oeuvres and Salads, Soups, Eggs and Cheese, Pates and Terrines, Vegetables, Fish, and others.