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Posted on May 31, 2011 in Food Books, Read | 3 comments

Great Food

Great Food
The books in Penguin’s Great Food series might be small but they’re perfectly formed. For these slim little pocket – or handbag – volumes, the publishing house chose twenty writers from a variety of eras, from Samuel Pepys and Eliza Acton to Alexandre Dumas and Claudia Roden. Each of the...
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Posted on Aug 18, 2010 in Food Books, Read | 2 comments

Food Rules by Michael Pollan

Food Rules by Michael Pollan
I am a big fan of Michael Pollan’s writing. I was first grabbed by 2008′s In Defence of Food, which led me to The Omnivore’s Dilemma from 2006. These books – absorbing, fascinating, infuriating and entertaining – are great reading. Pollan may be writing about weighty things...
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Posted on Apr 27, 2010 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide by John & Sally McKenna

The Bridgestone Irish Food Guide by John & Sally McKenna
The ninth edition of the Bridgestone Irish Food Guide has arrived and it’s overflowing with smokehouses and bakeries, markets and farmshops, gastropubs and country houses. Packed with, as they say, “all the good stuff and only the good stuff”, John and Sally McKenna, together with their...
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Posted on Jun 2, 2009 in Food Books, Read | 6 comments

The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky

The Food of a Younger Land by Mark Kurlansky
Great research is the key to Mark Kurlansky’s The Food of a Younger Land. The subtitle – A Portrait of American Food–Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation’s Food Was Seasonal – explains the what of the latest book...
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Posted on Jan 30, 2009 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

Cooking Lessons by Daisy Garnett

Cooking Lessons by Daisy Garnett
Despite its title, this is not the kind of book that you’ll pick up if you’re really wanting to learn how to cook. Cooking Lessons could as easily be titled Life Lessons, the kind of things that you learn as you experience – in journalist Daisy Garnett’s case – a few years spent...
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Posted on Dec 13, 2008 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

A Day at elBulli by Ferran Adrià, Juli Soler, and Albert Adrià

A Day at elBulli by Ferran Adrià, Juli Soler, and Albert Adrià
A Day at elBulli by Ferran Adrià, Juli Soler, and Albert Adrià The demand for seats at Ferran Adrià’s elBulli restaurant in Northern Spain is such that only a fraction of the people who want to will ever get to eat there. Its pedigree is well known – three stars from Michelin, a chef who is...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2008 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop

Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-Sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
With the 2008 Olympic opening ceremony taking place today, enigmatic China is at the center of attention. Fuchsia Dunlop’s Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper uses food and cooking to successfully delve beneath the surface. *** Chef and cookbook author Fuchsia Dunlop’s memoir of her time...
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Posted on Jun 20, 2006 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell

Julie & Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen by Julie Powell
Not long after food blogging first cropped up on my radar, I discovered Julie Powell’s blog, the Julie/Julia Project. I thought the idea was great – to document her attempts to cook the recipes in Julia Child’s classic cookbook Mastering the Art of French Cooking in just one year –...
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Posted on Jan 29, 2006 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

Georgina Campbell’s Ireland: The Best of The Best ****

Georgina Campbell’s Ireland: The Best of The Best ****
While the internet has undoubtedly simplified the matter of finding holiday accommodation, it’s never at hand (unless, of course, you’ve got your portable internet device nearby) when you’re on the road, looking for a decent bite to eat and somewhere to stay at short notice. Situations like...
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Posted on Dec 29, 2005 in Food Books, Read, Return to Ireland | 2 comments

The Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants 2006 & The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay 2006 by John and Sally McKenna ****

The Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants 2006 & The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay 2006 by John and Sally McKenna ****
With 15 years of eating and sleeping the length and breadth of the country in a tireless quest for the best of the best, John and Sally McKenna have it down to a fine art. This year’s editions of The Bridgestone 100 Best Restaurants and The Bridgestone 100 Best Places to Stay are as wonderfully...
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Posted on Nov 20, 2005 in Food Books, Read | 4 comments

Last Chance to Eat: The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World by Gina Mallet ****

Last Chance to Eat: The Fate of Taste in a Fast Food World by Gina Mallet ****
Although cursed with an uninviting cover, Last Chance to Eat, with its investigations into the history and eating of a variety of foodstuffs, is a fascinating read for anyone with even the barest interest in food. For foodies, it should be essential. Toronto-based Gina Mallet uses her particular memories...
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Posted on Jun 19, 2005 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

Never No More by Maura Laverty *****

Never No More by Maura Laverty *****
When I was a little one, with a voracious appetite for books and cooking, one of the books that I devoured was my Nana’s well-used copy of Full and Plenty by Maura Laverty. The distinctive blue and yellow covers contained a treasury of old Irish recipes but the icing on the cake for me were the...
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Posted on Apr 11, 2005 in Food Books, Read | 0 comments

Cooking for Mr Latte by Amanda Hesser

Cooking for Mr Latte by Amanda Hesser
Unlike many foodie memoirs that add recipes on to the end of each chapter, Amanda Hesser – a New York Times writer – actually understands the many meanings of food. Cooking for Mr Latte, subtitled A Food Lover’s Courtship, with Recipes, incorporates food as seduction and comfort, a means...
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