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		Medina Kitchen
		Home Cooking from North Africa		Crafts & Hobbies
		Fiona Dunlop
		Mitchell Beazley 2007 192 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1845332652
		Published Price £20.00		Sale Price £3.99
	Fiona Dunlop's long fascination with North Africa has taken her on a tour around Morocco, Tunisia and Libya to visit eight outstanding home chefs, shop and cook with them and learn their favourite recipes and culinary tricks. Exotic treats like Fozia Shwek's Aubergine Caviar and Kenza Samih's Sweet Pigeon Pie demonstrate a new movement in North African cuisine, with traditional tagines and soups being refined and adapted and new dishes created from the region's traditional and abundant spices, dried fruits and fresh herbs.
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		Eating India
		Exploring the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices		Crafts & Hobbies
		Chitrita Banerji
		Bloomsbury 2008 268 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0747581371
		Published Price £12.99		Sale Price £2.99
	The diversity of authentic Indian cuisine is the result of generations of arrivals, assimilations and conquests, from Persians and Mongols to Arabs and Europeans, each of whom brought innovative ways to manipulate the country's rich native spices. Chitrita Banerji has toured India visiting traditional weddings, tiffin rooms and city markets, and this account relates her discoveries about how India's turbulent history has shaped both its people and its cuisine.
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		Cook Espana, Drink Espana
		A Culinary Journey around the Food and Drink of Spain		Crafts & Hobbies
		John Radford; Mario Sandoval
		Mitchell Beazley 2007 192 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1845332458 250x200mm
		Published Price £20.00		Sale Price £4.99
	Celebrated young Spanish chef Mario Sandoval and wine expert John Radford present a gastronomic tour of the food and wine of each of Spain's 17 provinces. A cultural background to each province precedes a number of speciality recipes - such as Castilla-La Mancha's Partridge with Glazed Ceps and Plums and the Catalan Pan-Toasted Black Rice Socarrat with Baby Octopus - along with a survey of the region's wines.
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		Flavours of the Middle Kingdom
		The Origins of Traditional Chinese Dishes		Crafts & Hobbies
		Lydia Leong; Jamilah Mohd Hassan (Edited by)
		Times 2006 167 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 981232710X
		Published Price £11.99		Sale Price £2.99
	The vastness of China's geographic expanse and the richness of its cultural history are clearly echoed in the diversity of its cuisine. In this book the recipes are drawn from all parts of China and from all ages, some dating back to antiquity, and each dish is accompanied by the story of its origins and its place in Chinese culinary tradition. The recipes all have easy-to-follow instructions and there are tips on Chinese cooking techniques and an illustrated glossary of ingredients.
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		The Story of Wine
		New Illustrated Edition		Crafts & Hobbies
		Hugh Johnson (2004)
		Mitchell Beazley 2004 256 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1840009721 290x228mm
		Published Price £30.00		Sale Price £5.99
	First published in 1989, The Story of Wine received international acclaim and was translated into 11 languages. This new edition includes recent developments in viniculture, yet retains all the fascinating details of wine's evolution and the integral part it has played in the social and political history of civilizations in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Written with authority and enthusiasm, it explains how wine has been made, bottled, transported and enjoyed from ancient times to the present day.
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		Brinestain and Biscuit
		Recipes and Rules for Royal Navy Cooks		Crafts & Hobbies
		; Intro. Edward Hampshire
		National Archives 2006 98 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1905615094
		Published Price £6.99		Sale Price £2.99
	Patriotic Pudding, Brown Stew, basic butchery, and how to deal with the Hobart Mincing Machine... Offering a fascinating glimpse of Navy life, the no-nonsense instructions and recipes of the Admiralty's Manual of Naval Cookery date from 1930. The Manual marked the Navy's transition from mess-decks, 'cooks-of-the-day' and rum ration to cafeteria eating, trained cooks and two cans of beer. This book presents edited highlights, with an introduction by Edward Hampshire.
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		Choice Cuts
		A Selection of Food Writing from Around the World and Throughout History		Crafts & Hobbies
		Mark Kurlansky (Edited by)
		Jonathan Cape 2002 474 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0224069772
		Published Price £18.99		Sale Price £3.99
	'Food', writes Mark Kurlansky, 'is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.' Quite a range, but this anthology covers a lot of ground, with more than 200 pieces - from Plato on the art of cooking, to Rabelais on eating pilgrims in salad and James Beard on the delights of hot chocolate.
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		The Wines of Bordeaux
		Vintages and Tasting Notes 1952-2003		Crafts & Hobbies
		Clive Coates MW
		California University Press 2004 720 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0520235738
		Published Price $60.00		Sale Price £7.99
	Bordeaux produces some of the best and certainly the most expensive wines in the world. In the main part of his book Clive Coates, who has been travelling and tasting in the Bordeaux area for nearly 40 years, describes the unique characteristics of several hundred chateaux, from the grandest estates in Pauillac to modest properties in the Cotes de Bourg and Entre-Deux-Mers. Part two is devoted to vintage assessments from 2003 back to 1952, with Coates's lucid tasting notes on each wine's character and state of maturity.
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		Mexican Cantina Cooking
		Authentic Recipes to Capture the Flavours of Mexico		Crafts & Hobbies
		Jean-Pierre Vincken
		Apple 2007 174 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 1845431774
		Published Price £12.99		Sale Price £2.99
	Proving there's much, much more to Mexican food than chili and tortillas, this book introduces the variety and authentic taste of Mexican cooking. Beginning with the much-loved snacks of the street vendors (comida callejera), the book presents recipes for la comida (lunch), the main meal of the day, with substantial meat and fish dishes; the lighter dishes and enchiladas of la cena (dinner); and fiesta, or party food, including cocktails, tamales and Stuffed Chilis.
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		Superfeast
				Crafts & Hobbies
		Michael van Straten
		Little 2005 304 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1904435416
		Published Price £9.99		Sale Price £2.99
	'There are no side effects from eating good food' insists Michael van Straten. His book, a simple and practical guide to everyday shopping, cooking and eating, offers alternatives to junk food and debunks the 'bad for you' pronouncements against such thoroughly good for you foods as potatoes, butter and prawns. The book contains the directory of 100 best 'Superfoods', along with sections of 'Superfeast' and 'Supercure' recipes and information for boosting your consumption of nutrients and maintaining health.
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		Picnics
		and other Outdoor Feasts		Crafts & Hobbies
		Claudia Roden
		Grub Street 2005 314 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1904943179
		Published Price £12.99		Sale Price £6.99
	A celebration of the tradition of preparing and savouring meals in the open, this book presents an enormous range of recipes from around the world, but also describes customs of eating out-of-doors, from the street food of the Middle East to English shooting lunches on the moors. Among the many foods and techniques described in Roden's entertaining, discursive style are Japanese lunch boxes and sushi; cooking over embers; spit roasting; graveyard banqueting in China; and Indian picnics.
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		Cornucopia
		The Lore of Fruit and Vegetables		Crafts & Hobbies
		Annie Lise Roberts
		Knickerbocker 1998 96 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 1577150368 260x183mm
		Published Price $16.95		Sale Price £2.99
	This is an elegantly illustrated collection of amusing and informative insights into the world of 'fruit and veg' that will delight and inform the gardener, the gourmet and the food historian. From the humble root to wildly exotic fruit, and from the myths and legends of the Far East and ancient Rome to modern-day quotations, Annie Roberts presents a host of facts and fables, history, poetry and recipes.
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		The Country Kitchen
				Crafts & Hobbies
		Jocasta Innes
		Frances Lincoln 2003 288 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0711222614
		Published Price £7.99		Sale Price £2.99
	Jocasta Innes wrote this classic cook book in the 1970s 'for all those people who would like to try making sausages...or smoking kippers... if they could only find detailed practical instructions and information on the equipment needed, how long the process takes and whether the product is finally worth the effort'. This new edition contains 250 country recipes in the old tradition, but using modern methods and equipment.
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		The Cookbook that Changed the World
		The Origins of Modern Cuisine		Crafts & Hobbies
		T Sarah Peterson
		Tempus 2006 256 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0752440268
		Published Price £17.99		Sale Price £3.99
	To what do we owe the awesome and enduring reputation of French cuisine? This book explores one of the most dramatic and influential changes in the history of Western food: the appearance of modern French cuisine in the mid-17th century. Peterson looks at why food changed so drastically from medieval sugar and spice to the salt-acid taste, focusing on Francois Pierre de la Varenne's Le Cuisinier Francois (1631), a book that changed the course of culinary history
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		At Home with Amy Willcock
		180 Recipes for Every Occasion from the Queen of Aga Cookery		Crafts & Hobbies
		Amy Willcock
		Ebury 2005 192 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0091903890 251x190mm
		Published Price £20.00		Sale Price £3.99
	Well-known for her columns in Homes and Gardens and The Shooting Gazette, Amy Willcock, the 'queen of Aga cookery', presents a collection of 180 recipes for entertaining. With simple to follow instructions for both conventional and Aga cooking, here are imaginative menus and dishes for every occasion, from picnics and house parties (spring, summer, autumn and winter) to high days and holidays, including Foolproof Mothering Sunday Lunch, and white tie events (New Potatoes with Caviar for before the ball).
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