Archive For October 2008

The Cooking Book by Victoria Blashford-Snell – review

The Cooking Book by Victoria Blashford-Snell – review

This could just as easily be called “The BIG Cookbook”, “The Everything You Will Ever Need to Know About Cooking Cookbook” or “Recipes for the Culinarily Challenged”. The Cooking Book is a bumper volume with added extras. Editor-in-chief Victoria Blashford-Snell has produced a book that is amazing both in format and in content. The “extras”…

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The Other Side of the Bar

The Other Side of the Bar

…or One Bar, Two Buses, Six Coffees and a Funeral. Don’t we all just love it? The thought of a nice little bar in France, open from early morning, evoking visions of rustic charm, the smoke of half-a-dozen Gauloises (not any more!) and some animated exchanges over the morning’s St Tropez Daily Worker? At first…

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Stylish Thai in Minutes by Vatcharin Bhumichitr – review

Stylish Thai in Minutes by Vatcharin Bhumichitr – review

You gotta love it – any cookbook that is called, “No Stress”, “2 Ingredients”, “A Meal in a Moment” or “No Cooking Cookbook”. This book truly is Stylish Thai in Minutes and it had my vote before I even opened the cover. I love cooking but I don’t want to spend all my time in…

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