Cooking without Recipes: Philip Dundas

Cooking without Recipes, by Phillip Dundas, as the name suggests, contains no recipes. Instead, it provides a manual for confidence in the kitchen, with information on techniques,food shopping, and cooking various ingredients. Beautifully illustrated, the writing possesses a lightness of touch that never feels patronising.

Gin O’Clock published by Queen UK

The Queen [of Twitter] has published extracts from her diaries, revealing her surprisingly candid thoughts about the events of the day and showing that the only way to survive the nonsense we have to put up with from leading public figures is by taking hefty slugs of Bombay Sapphire gin, with or preferably without tonic. Joanna Biddolph went along to meet her at the official launch.

Pumpkin Recipes for Halloween

I know pumpkin pie is not everyone’s cup of tea, so I’ve done my homework and found some great recipes including pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pancakes and spicy pumpkin soup, that will have you carving out pumpkins just so you can try them out.

Celebrate Diwali at Namaaste Kitchen in Camden

If your eating out decisions are driven by your wallet, while hoping not to sacrifice taste, Namaaste Kitchen in Camden should be on your must-go list. And, if you want to experience its special Diwali tasting menu – seven courses, each matched with a wine – you must-go soon; the special menu extravaganza lasts until Saturday, 29th October.

Taste of Christmas 2011

Despite one in five British adults claiming to start planning for Christmas from today (25 October), research commissioned by Taste of Christmas reveals that a third of the nation still has no idea how to cook a traditional turkey dinner.