When Willie Harcourt-Cooze first appeared on to our TV screens in 2008, immersed in a bath of chocolate, it was the stuff of children’s books. He was in a documentary about making the best chocolates in the world from bean to bar. This was a man so passionate about chocolate that at the start of his…
Book reviews
‘How to eat in’ by Adam Byatt
‘Gourmet food for a fiver’ by Jason Atherton
When you’re looking through a book titled Gourmet Food for a Fiver, you find yourself going through a spectrum of thoughts. To start, there is scepticism. Given the current economic climate, food on a budget isn’t exactly a novel concept. The whole phrase ‘current economic climate’ is probably exhausted by now. Besides, Ready Steady Cook has…
‘Kitchen garden companion’ by Stephanie Alexander
If a book could be wholesome, this book would be it. The Kitchen Garden Companion isn’t a cookbook or a gardening bible but rather a journey from the garden to the kitchen. At a sizeable 752 pages, it’s certainly a comprehensive introduction to growing your own and cooking with homegrown ingredients. Stephanie Alexander started out as a…
‘Home Bake’ by Eric Lanlard
‘Littledish favourites cookbook’ by Hillary Graves
You may know Little Dish as the company that makes fresh, healthy food for kids using only natural ingredients, an idea which has no doubt been of endless help to busy mums and dads everywhere. Well, they have now released their first collection of recipes, The Little Dish Favourites Cookbook. Little Dish Favourites reads like a…