Offers information on over 1500 ingredients. This book gives each ingredient's history, appearance, taste, aroma, texture, culinary uses, buying, and storing. It features 11 food categories: fruit, vegetables, fish and shellfish, poultry, meat, game, eggs, dairy and cheese, grains, beans and pulses, pasta, noodles and rice, and herbs and spices.

Offers a way of bringing exquisite cakes that remain natural and healthy into our everyday lives - by introducing ingredients from the vegetable garden. This title features such cakes as Ginger Sticky Toffee Pudding made with parsnip and Orange Squash Cupcakes made with butternut squash.

Features recipes designed for two people, ranging from Spicy Chicken Couscous to feasts such as Seared Beef with Bean Mash. With chapters that include Starters, Salads and Snacks, Special-occasion Meals, Low-fat and Healthy, and Something Sweet, this work includes ideas and takes on recipes in this selection of meals for two.

Shows us how to cut our food bills in half, but how we can eat like royalty at the same time. This book presents 100 recipes that cover breakfasts and lunches, and snacks and treats. It shows you how to achieve expensive-looking meals without spending a fortune so you can entertain in style and make something from nothing.

Cupcakes have become very fashionable and cookies have never lost their charm. This title offers recipes for cupcakes that can be served as birthday cakes, desserts, and even wedding cakes, as well as for cookies.

The food of North Africa is spicy and flavourful; it has a definite exotic appeal and yet is not at all hard to make. This title includes recipes for stews known as tagines and couscous dishes, as well as for North African starters, soups and salads.

In the fourth River Cottage handbook, Mark Diacono tells us everything we need to know to create our own productive, organic garden, no matter where we live

Sophie Dahl, one of the most glorious women on the planet, shares delicious secrets from her slinky kitchen, funny stories and favourite recipes in a beautifully illustrated hardback. With delectable recipes for each season, this luscious abundant take on food will delight women everywhere.

Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud, pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling real story!

A cookbook featuring different recipes that has more emphasis on the outdoors - hence the recipes from the but an' ben - a two-room holiday dwelling in the country. It presents lighter, simpler, alternate ways of preparing traditional Scottish recipes.

Suitable for both weeknight dinners, as well as a chapter with recipes for entertaining, this work includes recipes for tasty, wholesome soups, hearty casseroles and stews, and healthy pulses and grains - food for the family, for every day. It shows you how to transform many foods, particularly meat, into morsels of melting tenderness.

Features Ostrich steak, Himalayan pink salt, urchin sushi, Indian spices, and Sardinian maggot cheese. This book not only tells you what foods to try but where they come from, how they have been and are used in cooking and features tasting notes indicating what to expect when you try them.

This new practical book on the craft of cidermaking explores traditional and modern approaches including a set of scaled plans for building an inexpensive robust cider press. Also included are instructions for apple pressing, step-by-step brewing and pasteurisation and cider-based food recipes.

Illustrates how science touches and shapes our daily lives. This title features colour images that highlight fascinating facts that can engage and excite young minds.

Reveals the how, why, what and where of foraging. This book features recipes that use foraged ingredients.

Reveals an approach to diet and nutrition that allows you to maximise the goodness you get from the food you eat. This book investigates the interplay between vitamins and minerals, and of these with probiotics and phytochemicals, and demonstrates how the Super eating approach can be used to optimum effect, combating many major health issues.

Provides information about the science, history and culture of food and cooking. This book is for those, who have ever wondered why fish goes off quicker than meat; how to tell stale eggs from fresh ones; why you're supposed to leave pancake batter to rest; why chopping onions makes you cry; and about the health benefits of chocolate and alcohol.

Helps you to discover how to choose and enjoy over 300 regional cheeses. From a Cornish Yarg to a Stilton, this titel lets you celebrate the variety, quality and pure culinary pleasure of great British cheeses. It offers what you ever wanted to know about cheese from detailed profiles of over 300 types from around Britain and Ireland.

Features ingredients that are arranged alphabetically, pictured and described. This book explains the methods of cooking, and features some recipes showing how to best use it.

Healthy, delicious, modern - everyone loves sushi. This title explains how to cook sushi rice and start with simple rolled sushi using classic ingredients, such as cucumber or tuna. It also includes several recipes for sashimi and miso soups, plus great accompaniments.