Weber's Sizzle & Swizzle

#1001

A collection of Pan Asian, Latin, Caribbean, American and Mediterranean recipes for this book, each accompanied with a suitable cocktail recipe, making it easy to pick one that will suit the food you are preparing. The author is a seasoned professional- if you can’t trust this mans opinion on a cocktail, you can’t trust anyone’s!

Weber's Fun & Easy Grilling Guide

#1002

Whether it’s lamb, beef, fish, chicken or vegetables, this book has a delicious recipe that’s sure to delight the tastebuds. Contains original, searing dishes – each one easy to prepare – and includes detailed techniques to ensure the best results from any barbecue, charcoal or gas. Instructions are simple enough to leave room for cooking improvisation.

The Every Day Chicken Cookbook

#1003

This book comes with 365 delicious and easy-to-follow chicken recipes. Simona Hill has published a number of books and is respected for her clear and simple writing style. Each recipe is gone through step by step with pictures at each stage to guide you - the perfect antidote to other inaccessible cook books.

The Penguin Book of Food and Drink

#1004

Containing few recipes, this is more a collection of writings on food and drink than a cookbook. This collection was created to appeal not only to those who have cooking in mind but also to those who want to learn more and are interested in what they eat and drink.

Pesto e basilico profumi di Liguari

#1005

This recipe book delivers classic Italian recipes and is written exclusively in Italian, for the most daring of chefs. Contains plenty of mouth-watering illustrations to keep the morale up while you cook. You’ll need an Italian dictionary by your side to use this one - but it's definitely a worthwhile challenge!

Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2006

#1006

Without snobbery, Johnson discusses grape varieties, food pairings, and the individual character of different wine regions, from France to California to Australia - even to South Africa. Small enough to fit inside a purse or jacket pocket, this book is perfect for taking to a restaurant or wine store to help with your selection.

South African Indigenous Foods

#1009

More than just a set of recipes, each page contains little bites of wisdom: proverbs and sayings, and their western translations. The book also helps with measurements and discusses some of the more unusual crops used in the recipes. If you’re ever in the mood for something other than your usual dinner – this is the way to go!

Jamie at Home

#1010

This book is about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. Inside, you’ll find over 100 new recipes, plus some basic planting information and tips if you fancy having a go at getting your hands dirty as well!

Jamie's Italy

#1011

In Jamie’s Italy, Jamie travels this famously gastronomic country paying homage to the classic dishes of each region and searching for new ideas to bring home. The result is a sensational collection of Italian recipes, old and new, that will ensure Italy’s influence reaches us all. On the menu is an array of magical ingredients and Mediterranean flavours all combined in Jamie’s inimitable way.

Jamie's Dinners

#1012

In Jamie’s Dinners, he encourages us to eat more healthily, to really enjoy our time spent cooking and to inspire confidence in even the most novice cook. He takes a look at how to get the most out of your kitchen without spending too much money on making it work. Well worth a look!

Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food

#1013

Throw away the takeaway menus, ready meals and convenience foods! These days everyone wants fast food but at the same time they want to eat well. And there’s no one better than Gordon Ramsay to how you how to cook real food fast and make it taste delicious too!

The World in Bite Size

#1014

Small is beautiful and in this book Paul Gayler celebrates the idea of bite-sized dishes that are packed with big flavours. This is the ultimate collection of bite-sized wonders that will have you cooking and eating in an exciting new way.

Exploring Taste & Flavour

#1015

Using the principles of the Eastern taste theory, this book shows why combining the 4 main ‘taste’ elements of hot, sour, salt and sweet guarantees truly delicious food, every time. You can learn the knack of ‘throwing things together’ and knowing instinctively which ingredients and flavours will work in combination.

Nigella Express

#1016

If you don't want to spend hours in the kitchen slaving over a hot stove, then this is the book for you! Featuring fabulous fast foods, ingenious short cuts, terrific time-saving ideas, effortless entertaining and easy, delicious meals, “Nigella Express” is her solution to eating well when time is short.

Everyday Wheat-Free & Gluten-Free Cookbook

#1017

This recipe book offers 200 recipes using special gluten-free flours, breads and pasta now available on the market, many of which coeliacs can obtain on a doctor’s prescription. These receipes are easy to use and give pleasing results.

The World of Street Food

#1018

Easy and quick meals to cook at home: Celebrates the delicious foods that are prepared and served in streets and markets around the world. This is the book to take the tastebuds travelling. Arepas from Venezuela, tom yam soup from Thailand, delicious mezze from the Middle East – “The World of Street Food” offers the best in fast food from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.

The Cook's Book

#1019

Master every technique and develop new ways of cooking by following the practical, step-by-step advice of 18 top chefs from around the world, including Marcus Wareing, David Thompson and Shaun Hill. Includes over 600 delicious recipes from homely English food to international cuisine and illustrated with sumptuous photography. Share their passion for food, broaden your repertoire – and cook for success every time.

GI High-Energy Cookbook

#1020

This is a practical introduction to a low GI diet and is packed full with easy-to-follow recipes. Virtually every meal can be made in under 20 minutes and recipes are adaptable to individual needs. The GI High-Energy Cookbook could very well change the way you think about food.

Street Food

#1021

Street Food boasts over 90 delicious recipes, continent by continent, collected by private chef and food consultant Tom Kime who has travelled from Southeast Asia to South America to discover and learn about street food from around the world. The menu pages suggest how to mix and match recipes for parties, picnics and barbecues for a truly authentic dining experience.

Gluten-free Cookery

#1022

This book is not only perfect as a guide for coeliacs, but also as a cookery book in and of itself. There is an excellent section on food properties and the flour mixes are particularly useful. This cookbook is full of clear, easy to follow recipes, that produce good results. The almond biscuit recipe is particularly good!

Modern Mezze

#1023

This is a well written and comprehensive guide to 'mezze' - a selection of eastern Mediterranean appetisers or small dishes, similar to tapas of Spain or finger food. With a tempting collection of 100 recipes from Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Morocco and Iran, "Modern Mezze" brings this brilliant, relaxed style of food to the home cook.

New Vegetarian Entertaining

#1024

Written by the head chef of one of London’s most celebrated vegetarian restaurants – Food For Thought – this vegetarian cookbook introduces you to easy entertaining – vegetarian style! The ingredients for the recipes are all easy to find, follow any of the recipes and you’ll end up with a meal that’s not only healthy but both looks and tastes good too.

Oz Clarke's Wine Atlas

#1025

With more than 75 spectacular, hand-painted panoramic maps accompanied by Oz's lively and opinionated prose, this highly acclaimed Atlas illustrates and explains the vital connections between the land and the wine. This is an indispensable book to any who has a keen interest in wine or would like to have one.

Oz Clarke's Introducing Wine

#1026

This introduction to wine is short and sweet. If you don’t know what short and sweet tastes like, this book will tell you. The emphasis is placed on educating wine-beginners, so no baffling French or insider jargon, just the infectious enthusiasm of an oenologue [wine expert]!

Jancis Robinson's Wine Course

#1027

Wine – intermediate level and higher. This bulky book (352 pages) offers perhaps more than all but the most dedicated drinkers would wish for. It offers comprehensive summaries of growing techniques in wine-producing countries as well guiding one through grape and wine types. Thorough and highly recommended.

The Ultimate Gluten-Free Diet

#1028

The authors of this text are reassuringly qualified medical practitioners who introduce one to the world of the Coeliac. Causes, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of the disease are covered, as well as a collection of 100 imaginative recipes and assorted food charts.

Recovering Our Ancestors' Gardens

#1029

While certainly interesting, one wonders about the practicality of some of the Native Indian recipes: is elk readily available in Ireland? Aimed at Native Americans the book nevertheless provides some tantalising recipes which will surely be new to most people: Dakota Waskuya Soup, Osage Pounded Meat, Chickasaw Pashofa…

Best Kept Secrets of the Women's Institute

#1030

The Women’s Institute: the gals who live to give. When not posing nude, the gals like to get down in the kitchen and this is the result. A staggering array of recipes in a wonderfully illustrated book, this is one to impress the neighbours.

Desserts

#1031

James Martin has filled his book with over 100 scrumptious dessert recipes, from classic sticky toffee pudding, to some new and inventive ones like chocolate cola cake and whiskey and croissant butter pudding. The instructions are all easy to follow, and he never gets too bogged down in the technical side of things. All in all, a great dessert book for everyone, even the beginners!

Rachel's Food for Living

#1032

Rachel Allen’s latest offering looks at the power of food to affect our moods. While there’s an emphasis on comfort food, you’ll also find easy-to-follow recipes, a chapter all about chocolate, classic dishes and a section on healthy alternatives that still taste good.

The Accidental Vegetarian

#1033

Vegetarian recipes to please even the most dedicated carnivore. This book is a collection of some of his recipes that are quick to prepare but totally delicious. From good old favourites like macaroni cheese to Simon's more exotic fusion creations such as spicy beetroot and coconut soup, "The Accidental Vegetarian" will kill the lentil and sandal image of vegetarianism forever!