Top Ten Food & Drink Books

I must say the best book (well it's a guide) for the Costa Calida (Murcia) culinary selection is the Costa Calida Food and Drink Guide. It is the only guide in the area that is in both English and Spanish, it does not publish adverts it publishes reviews. It is a 6 monthly guide and free to the public. I find it a brilliant guide to advertise in, because it is an absolutely fantantastic way to find a restaurant or bar/pub to eat or drink. Also a brilliant thing about it is it's handy and good to keep, so you will find that no one will throw it away. It is deffinetly NOT like a newspaper advert because people just flash through newspaper adverts ...  Read the complete review

##my favourite foods## Cheese on toast with pepper on top and chilly sauce and onions and peppers, - toasted bread, add cheese put in micro for 20/30 secs sprinkle pepper. toppings can be added like chopped peppers/onion :P Birdseye fish fingers - can be microwaved for a minute (1000wot micro) add salt and pepper, dip in chilly sauce Birdseye waffles - micro/grill/fry (fry is the best) add salt eat with chilly sauce or a fried egg. french toast - beat an egg, add salt/pepper/chilly dip bread halves into egg and then fry! kebabs - I'm talking takeaway baby in pitta bread with chilly, garlic and chutney sauces! kebabish is ...  Read the complete review

I love to collect recipe books, not only to use them, but often as just to read. My collection starts with a book from the 1970's . Strangely the writer of my first ever cookbook gave inspiration to the author of my most recent purchase. Most of my choices contain good basic everyday recipes, but a couple have more historical and social values. Here goes with 10 of my favourites, in no particular order. Cooking Today by Marguerite Patten.Hamlyn ISBN 0600360075 This book first published in 1971 was handed down to me by my Mum and is the first cookery book I ever owned. Although a little dated, as it was written before the days of food ...  Read the complete review

Ooooh! And Aaaah! A category combining Food and Books, my two favourite things in life . (And, if I hadn't read Lamorna's brilliant opinion, I would have been totally unaware of it's existence.) So I've raided my kitchen bookshelf and chipped the long dried cake mixture off the pages of my favourite food books and am hoping to write an opinion that will make your mouth water. 1. Food Garnishes and Decorations: The Tante Marie School of Cookery, Beryl Childs and Sue Alexander. ISBN 0 600 56473 8 You just know this is going to be good when you read the words "The Tante Marie School of Cookery" don't you. The French have a ...  Read the complete review

The celebrity chefs of today dominate the top ten bestsellers list in both paperback and hardback editions. Cookery books have been called the Soft Porn of the twenty-first century. People read them as avidly as they would have once read a novel. This isn’t so out of the ordinary, as chefs will read cookery books for inspiration and ideas for new dishes to put on their restaurant menus, with no intention to faithfully follow a recipe. Chefs cook by instinct, imagination and a natural flair for combining textures, flavours, and available local produce. Great chefs cook with love and emotion. Thus I have a wonderful collection of cookery books, many of them ...  Read the complete review