Books from May 2009
May 2009 Books Archive from Foodepedia
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Strada della Nonna - Gian Bohan
Monday May 25th, 2009
Strada della Nonna or The way of the Granny. Sounds a bit like a kung fu movie when you (very roughly) translate it. Italian kung fu that is, which presumably involves loudly honking your horn at people whilst flicking an imaginary beard. This is a book about a boy growing up under the culinary influence of a granny with ‘a six foot’ pasta rolling pin who would arrive in Sheffield from Modena, driven by her husband and with a car boot full of food treasures. -
10 Minutes to table- Xanthe Clay
Friday May 22nd, 2009
Leaving aside the heretical idea that we might actually want to take longer over cooking than previously, in order to have something to do of an afternoon to prevent the slide into daytime TV and the inevitable unscrewing of the Costcutter Chardonnay at 3 p.m, is this the book we want right now? -
Grown in Britain Cookbook – Editor Donna Air
Tuesday May 12th, 2009
Just take a look at the back of those packets of veg – the country of provenance is always stated and these days it seems that country is all too often one that’s very far away. Some even long-haul distance. -
Flavour. A world of Beautiful Food - Vicky Bhogal
Tuesday May 5th, 2009
With her first book, Cooking Like Mummyji, Vicky Bhogal used her experience of growing up an Anglo-Asian to bring real Punjabi cooking back home. Here were authentic recipes that were, to non Asians, a bit of an eye-opener. Then came a Year of Cooking like Mummyji which went further by cooking with the seasons in a variety of Asian styles. Now with this book, Vicky has embraced pretty much the whole world as the title suggests.