Everybody’s going vegetarian, or at least enough people are that we all need to know how to cook for the plant-based guest once in a while. The trouble is that if you’re used to cooking meat-based dishes, it can be…
I’ll never forget my first taste of Thai food at a street stall on the Khao San Road in Bangkok. The sweet chili tingled on my tongue and I fell in love. There may be more “recognised” schools of cookery…
The land of the rising sun has one of the most enviable food cultures on Earth. Japanese food culture is legendary for its attention to detail and refined flavors. From sushi to Kobe beef, it’s famed for elegant and exciting…
There may be no more classic cookbook, when it comes to bread machine bread, than Betty Crocker’s Best Bread Machine Cookbook. It celebrates the goodness of homemade bread in an an easy way. We’d recommend that you buy it in…
The New York Times called Tartine Bread “The most beautiful bread book yet published.” That’s high praise indeed and we can tell why. Chad Robertson (possibly the best bread maker in North America) has teamed up with Elizabeth Prueitt of…
Ever wanted to learn how to make bread? Then you need Bread Baking for Beginners by Bonnie Ohara. It’s the the essential guide to baking kneaded breads, no-knead breads, and enriched breads Of course, you could just invest in one…
This might have been the hardest “best cookbooks” list to compile, ever. Did you know that there are more than 30 styles of Chinese cookery? To get our list, we had to make some hard choices but it was definitely…
It can be hard sometimes knowing where Italian food ends and American food begins. Italians have made such rich contributions to the national food culture that the best way to separate out the authentic is to spend some time studying…
There’s simple and then there’s artisan sourdough made simple. Emilie Raffa has refined the art of combining flour, water and salt into something fantastic. You won’t need one of our best bread makers to get started with these recipes, either…
No jokes about British food please, this is not 1970 and the Brits are now on top of the global food game. One area that the small island nation excels at is baking and that’s why Regula Ysewijn’s book The…