Compting his blessings

Le Comptoir Libanais restaurants are a joyous celebration of Lebanese style home cooking. With the launch of the Comptoir cookbook, Nick Harman goes to meet Tony Kittous the man behind the mezze.

Cooking Through the Year: 1000 Recipes

Containing no fewer than 1,000 recipes and organised first by season, then by course, Cooking Through the Year aims to provide a one-stop reference to help cooks understand which meats, fishes and vegetables are in season at any given time of the year, and to provide wholesome, simple recipes to make the most out of them.

Book review: Devnaa’s India – Jay and Roopa Rawal

‘Devnaa’s India’ demystifies a cuisine that’s disappointingly under-represented on bookshop shelves and in restaurants – home-style Gujarati fare. Hearty, humble and pretty darn healthy, Guji food is the just the sort you could gorge on and still feel just gorgeous.