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This is a wonderfully evocative narrative book about the joy of flavour by one of Britain’s rising culinary stars.

Olly spends his life creating recipes or finding foods to match the wild cauldron of flavours that are bursting to get out of his bulging drinks cabinet. Olly knows how the combination of good food and drink helps harness memories of times past, and his recollections of many happy hours spent in the kitchen and at the table bring his book to life.

Olly will show you how to achieve taste heaven by partnering the right food and drink. Divided into chapters by flavour – citrus, spicy, sweet, creamy, smoky – EAT & DRINK explores the food and drink that can be combined to create unforgettable flavour moments to savour and treasure. Olly accompanies his recommendations with a collection of his own favourite recipes.

Written in the distinctive, fun style that has made him such a hit on our screens, it will be impossible not to be caught up by Olly’s enthusiasm for eating and drinking.

Did You Know…
A piece of toast was dropped into wine in ancient Rome to toast someone for good health? The word ‘bridal’ originated from ‘bride ale’, a special alcohol brewed for a marriage feast? Rum was so important in New England that a contract wasn’t considered sealed until a glass had been drunk? Drink contains everything you have ever wanted to know about alcohol, from how to make absinthe to the cultural history of zythos (beer), and is packed with fascinating and curious facts about life’s ‘second greatest pleasure’ (according to essayist Samuel Johnson). Bottoms up! 

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO ALCOHOL AND YOUR HEALTH

Alcohol – a simple molecule that can induce so much pleasure and pain at the same time… As the most harmful drug in the UK, it has a profound and wide-reaching impact on our health and on society at large. Drink? is the first book of its kind, written by a scientist and rooted in 40 years of medical research and hands-on experience treating patients. Professor David Nutt cuts through the noise to explain the long- and short-term effects of alcohol, makes complex science digestible and takes readers through its journey inside the body and brain from the very first sip.

Drink? holds the key to all the questions you want to know the answers to, covering mental health, sleep, hormones, fertility and addiction. It sheds light on what ‘responsible drinking’ truly means and equips us with the essential knowledge we all need to make rational, informed decisions about our consumption now and in the future.

Few visitors to the Medtitterranean realize that the food they enjoy so much constitutes one of the healthiest diets in the world.
HEALTHY MEDITERRANEAN COOKERY is a collection of 160 delicious recipes. With it’s emphasis on olive oil, garlic, fresh herbs, sun-ripened tommatoes, sweet peppers, pasta, rice and a wide variety of fish and shellfish, this colourful and aromatic diet is now widely recognized as a strong foundation for good health and longevity. In fact, recent medical research undertaken by the World Health Organisation indicates that the Mediterranean ‘super-foods’, with their high levels of antioxidant nutrients and low levels of saturated fats, may form the basis of the healthiest diet in the world.
Including more of these foods in your diet will not be difficult. All the necessary ingredients are readily available in supermarkets and, with the help of Lorraine Whiteside’s inspirational recipes, you can begin preparing simple, nutritious and delicious meals straight away. Adopt the Mediterranean diet today and look forward to a healthier tomorrow!

The anticipated follow-up to GQ Eats, this ultimate drinks book features creations from bar legends such as Salvatore Calabrese as well as innovative mixes from new talent from the UK’s best bars. As well as over 120 recipes for classic and cutting-edge cocktails, you will also find inside tips such as which are the best brands to use for the perfect G+T. A special section on hardware covers the glasses to use and the shakers that are worth spending money on.

Discover how to create delicious Thai dishes using easily available ingredients and with surprisingly little effort. Kris Dhillon explains the basic principles of Thai cooking – fresh, flavoursome ingredients, correctly combined and quickly cooked – so that you can achieve the wonderful flavours Thai cooking is famous for. Many Thai restaurants in the Western world barely capture the true essence of Thai food but Kris shows how you can match the best Thai food from Thailand.

Recipes include perfect pad thai, easy stir fries, aromatic soups, Thai tempura, quick vegetarian side dishes like steamed bok choy and garlicky broccolini, and a large variety of curries including the classic Thai green curry.

Every recipe tells a story. And every family has one – a recipe that tugs at your heartstrings, makes you laugh, brings back memories and sums up all that’s great about food: its ability to delight our senses, bring people together and spread joy and happiness. Food, Glorious Food! – the book of the major new ITV1 series presented by Carol Vorderman – will be crammed full of these heart-warming and delicious recipes. Packed full of dishes from ordinary members of the public, the book will feature the food that we all love to cook and want to know how to cook. Those dishes will form the spine of the Food, Glorious Food! book. But each recipe will be so much more than just a list of ingredients and a set of cooking instructions: that’s because each will be accompanied by the inspiring story of its creation, along with fascinating and revealing photos plucked from the personal archives of the recipe’s creator and their family. The featured dishes will encompass old favourites like Lancashire Hot Pot, Cornish Pasties and Bakewell Tart, alongside new and inventive fusions of flavours that simply have to be tasted. Some dishes will incorporate quirky twists – for example, an extra ingredient that was originally added by mistake – while other recipes will stick to time-honoured techniques, handed down through multiple generations of the same family. In between the featured recipes will be thoughtful reflections on Britain’s food heritage and the nation’s love affair with home cooking. This is the definitive guide to the UK’s best recipes, written for the people of Great Britain, by the people of Great Britain.

“Olmsted makes you insanely hungry and steaming mad–a must-read for anyone who cares deeply about the safety of our food and the welfare of our planet.” —Steven Raichlen, author of the Barbecue! Bible series“The world is full of delicious, lovingly crafted foods that embody the terrain, weather, and culture of their origins. Unfortunately, it’s also full of brazen impostors. In this entertaining and important book, Olmsted helps us fall in love with the real stuff and steer clear of the fraudsters.” —Kirk Kardashian, author of Milk Money: Cash, Cows, and the Death of the American Dairy Farm You’ve seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from wood pulp. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn’t. So many fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and our kitchen cabinets that it’s hard to know what we’re eating anymore. In Real Food / Fake Food, award-winning journalist Larry Olmsted convinces us why real food matters and empowers consumers to make smarter choices. Olmsted brings readers into the unregulated food industry, revealing the shocking deception that extends from high-end foods like olive oil, wine, and Kobe beef to everyday staples such as coffee, honey, juice, and cheese. It’s a massive bait and switch in which counterfeiting is rampant and in which the consumer ultimately pays the price. But Olmsted does more than show us what foods to avoid. A bona fide gourmand, he travels to the sources of the real stuff to help us recognize what to look for, eat, and savor: genuine Parmigiano-Reggiano from Italy, fresh-caught grouper from Florida, authentic port from Portugal. Real foods that are grown, raised, produced, and prepared with care by masters of their craft. Part cautionary tale, part culinary crusade, Real Food / Fake Food is addictively readable, mouthwateringly enjoyable, and utterly relevant.

Unicorn Food is the food trend redefining clean eating, with plant-based dishes that are as bewitchingly beautiful and Instagrammable as they are nourishing and delicious. Now, in a kaleidoscope of 75 innovative, naturally colorful recipes, food journalist Kat Odell—author of Day Drinking and entrepreneur behind the alt-milk brand Unicorn Foods—introduces healthy, vibrant dishes that are as fun to eat as they are good for you. The ingredients are all natural and nutrient packed, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetables to superfoods like flax seeds, coconut oil, spirulina, chia, and bee pollen. And the hyper-colorful, creative recipes are perfect for healthy-forward eaters, including gently flavored nut milks, grain bowls loaded with fresh vegetables, probiotic breakfast custards, toasts with slathers and spreads. This is health food filled with joy, and in all the colors of the rainbow: the deep glowing yellow of a Frozen Turmeric Lassi, the greens of Bean Thread Noodle Salad with Miso-Arugula Pesto, the intense oranges and purples of Sweet + Sour Rainbow Radish Tacos, the tie-dye rainbow effect of Pineapple Kimchi Summer Sunset Rolls, and the pastels of Strawberry-Pink Peppercorn “Ice Cream” Sticks. Filled with dazzling full-color photographs, and published in a package as special as the dishes themselves, Unicorn Food is a cookbook of real beauty, in the look, in the recipes, in the spirit of the food itself.

Preserving the harvest doesn’t have to stop with jam and pickles. Many fruits, vegetables, and herbs can be made into delicious beverages to enjoy fresh or preserve for later. Drink the Harvest presents simple recipes accompanied by mouthwatering photographs for a variety of teas, syrups, ciders, wines, and kombuchas. DeNeice C. Guest and Nan K. Chase also provide advice for harvesting ingredients for maximum flavor and even creating your own backyard beverage garden. Pour a refreshing glass of Passionflower-Lemon Balm Wine and drink in the possibilities.

‘Monisha Bharadwaj [is] an Indian cooking authority,’ The New York Times

This comprehensive guide to Indian cooking explores the myriad regional varieties of authentic, healthy and lesser known Indian recipes. With chapters broken down into: Rice, Breads, Meat, Fish & Seafood, Poultry, Eggs, Dairy, Lentils & Beans, Vegetables, Snack & Sides, Grills, Salads & Raitas, Chutneys & Relishes, Desserts and Drinks, Monisha covers a varied range of dishes as well as providing insights into ingredients, techniques and step-by-step masterclasses to help you recreate classic and popular recipes.

Monisha offers a vivid overview of India’s colourful traditions and geographical differences, from the earthy lentil dishes of the North to the coconut-based curries which are a staple in the South. Including advice on the building blocks of Indian cuisine, such as how to make a basic curry and how to cook the perfect rice, plus tips on the different varieties of rice and how to shop for the best type for each dish. Monisha teaches you how to make traditional Indian food at home, based on the principles of good health and touching on the values of Ayurveda. The Indian Cookery Course is the ultimate guide to everything you ever wanted to know about Indian food.

One bowl recipes to nourish your body.

Whether you’re entertaining friends or cooking for yourself, eating from bowls brings a key element to your meal: relaxation. There is something undeniably comforting about a large bowl full of your favourite things, and scooping it all together to form a delicious and nutritious meal at the end of the day is extremely satisfying. Bowl food is everything together – a mixture of fresh ingredients combining new tastes and textures. It is fun, casual and easy, and you can be as inventive as you like. There is no need to separate your ingredients onto fiddly little plates, just combine it all together and find a pretty bowl to serve it up. Everything tastes better in a bowl, and you only have to wash up one thing!

We suffer today from food anxiety, bombarded as we are with confusing messages about how to eat an ethical diet. Should we eat locally? Is organic really better for the environment? Can genetically modified foods be good for you?

JUST FOOD does for fresh food what Fast Food Nation did for fast food, challenging conventional views, and cutting through layers of myth and misinformation.

Informative and surprising, JUST FOOD tells us how to decide what to eat, and how our choices can help save the planet and feed the world.

Nourish your hair and skin with recipes to bring out the very best in you, inside and out.

Enjoy healthy recipes for breakfast, filling main meals, juices, smoothies and even delicious desserts and decadent cocktails – all carefully chosen to bring you the perfect blend of natural superfoods that boost beauty from the inside.

Beauty Food also includes a Beautypedia, telling you which ingredients contain just the right oils, minerals, vitamins and acids to help with common beauty ailments.

The fully revised and updated ‘bible’ on eating for health, from the medicinal chef Dale Pinnock.

Medicinal Cookery is the only book you will ever need to understand and maximise health. Fully revised and updated as a beautiful full colour cookbook, it is packed with brand new photography and delicious recipes that target many of today’s common chronic complaints, including digestive problems, heart and circulation conditions, issues concerning the immune and nervous systems and skin disorders.

Fire up your woodstove and get cooking! In this informative and inspiring guide, Jane Cooper brings together dozens of recipes and expert tips from seasoned woodstove cooks. Keep your kitchen warm and cozy as you whip up breakfast pancakes, mouthwatering roasted meats, delicious pies, and irresistible loaves of freshly baked bread. With plenty of advice on buying, installing, and maintaining your woodstove, you’ll be sure to enjoy cooking over a controlled, crackling fire for years to come.

The perfect way to spend an afternoon! When the occasion calls for a drink, but not getting drunk, mix up a batch of day drinks – creative, low-alcohol cocktails that are festive, delicious, and easy on the booze. Using beer, wine, cider, sake, sherry, and vermouth, plus a variety of amari and other liqueurs, here are 50 light drinks for hot days, warm drinks for cool days, and an abundance of classic – and reimagined – spritzers, sangrias, micheladas, and so much more.

From the classy blush of the Pink Lady to the sassy flush of the Cosmopolitan, the peach-pink perfection of the Bellini to the flashy-trashy confection of the Valentine Martini, Drink Pink is a pocket-sized collection of classic and contemporary cocktails in every shade of pink for every occasion.

Contents:
Fizzes, Highballs & Collinses
Spirit Forwards
Sours
Sharers & Punches
Champagne & Prosecco

Eating the right foods can dramatically improve the performance of your brain and help you to think quicker, have a clearer memory and maintain a brighter outlook. This book contains 50 nutritious recipes to boost memory power, reduce stress and beat depression. Identify the key IQ-boosting foods and discover how to fuel your brain and eat your way to success!

Popular food blogger Marisa McClellan takes you through all manner of food in jars, storing away the tastes of all seasons for later. Basics like jams and jellies are accompanied by pickles, chutneys, conserves, whole fruit, tomato sauces, salsas, marmalades, nut butters, seasonings, and more. Small batches make them easy projects for a canning novice to tackle, and the flavors of vanilla bean, sage, and pepper will keep more experienced jammers coming back for more. Sample some Apricot Jam and Rhubarb Syrup in the spring, and then try your hand at Blueberry Butter and Peach Salsa in the summer Dilly Beans and Spicy Pickled Cauliflower ring in the fall, while Three-Citrus Marmalade and Cranberry Ketchup are the harbingers of winter. Stories of wild blackberry jam and California Meyer lemon marmalade from McClellan’s childhood make for a read as pleasurable as it is delicious her home-canned food- learned from generations of the original”foodies&rdquo- feeds the soul as well as the body in more than 100 recipes.

The message is simple: excellent food is available at affordable prices. You just have to know what you’re looking for – and where to find it.

Shrewd Food is the definitive guide. Inspired by the hugely popular website shrewdfood.ie, set up in 2009 by dedicated foodie and home-cook extraordinaire Elizabeth Carthy – who knows first-hand the challenges of feeding a family on a budget – this collection of over one hundred recipes for every occasion also includes information on:


Shopping for best-value and quality


Shrewd cooking tips


The shrewd cupboard


Seasonal cooking


Occasion cooking on a budget.

In easy-to-follow recipes containing fresh, affordable ingredients, Elizabeth shares with us her knowledge of traditional Irish cuisine – learned from her mother – to shrewd recipes from Europe and the East, gathered during her many years living abroad.

More than just a cookbook, Shrewd Food is a way of life.

Best-selling author and noted illustrator of Nature Anatomy, Julia Rothman takes her pen into the kitchen with this charming, illustrated guide to all things edible around the globe. She focuses her curious eye on the origins, types, tools, traditions, and techniques behind the most popular foods and preparations, from breads to fish to spices and desserts.

Get your recommended daily allowance of facts and fun with Food Anatomy, the third book in Julia Rothman’s best-selling Anatomy series.

She starts with an illustrated history of food and ends with a global tour of street eats. Along the way, Rothman serves up a hilarious primer on short-order egg lingo and a mouth-watering menu of how people around the planet serve fried potatoes – and what we dip them in.

Award-winning food journalist Rachel Wharton lends her expertise to this light-hearted exploration of everything food that bursts with little-known facts and delightful drawings. Everyday diners and seasoned foodies alike are sure to eat it up.

Also available in this series: Nature Anatomy, Nature Anatomy Notebook, Ocean Anatomy, and Farm Anatomy.

Ray Mears has travelled the world discovering how native people manage to live on just what nature provides. Whats always frustrated him is not knowing how our own ancestors fed themselves and what we could learn about our own diet.

We know they were hunter-gatherers, but no-one has been able to tell what they ate day to day. How did they find their calories, week in week out throughout the year? What were their staple foods? Where did they get their vitamins? How did they ensure their bodies received enough variety?

In this book he travels back ten thousand years to a time before farming to learn how our ancestors found, prepared and cooked their food.

This extraordinary journey reveals many new possibilities many of the same food sources are still there for us if only we know where to look. Through Ray Mears’ knowledge of the countryside and the research conducted specially for this book with archaeo-botanist Gordon Hillman, we learn many new, useful and often surprising things about the amazingly rich natural larder that still surrounds us.