Category Archives: Travel Guides
Pasta Grannies: The Official Cookbook: The Secrets of Italy`s Best Home Cooks
“When you have good ingredients, you don`t have to worry about cooking. They do the work for you.” Lucia, 85 Inspired by the hugely popular YouTube channel of the same name, `Pasta Grannies` is a wonderful collection of time-perfected Italian recipes from the people who have spent a lifetime cooking for love, not a living:
Poke: Hawaiian-Inspired `Sushi` Bowls
Hailing from Hawaii, poke (or POH-key] is best described as laid-back sushi bowls, and is THE hottest food trend of the moment. Traditionally made from chunks of fresh, raw fish, anything goes when it comes to ingredients: select your fish, cube it, layer it on rice and pile it high with any topping you like.
Japaneasy: Classic and Modern Japanese Recipes to (Actually) Cook at Home
Many people are intimidated at the idea of cooking Japanese food at home. But in `JapanEasy`, Tim Anderson reveals that many Japanese recipes require no specialist ingredients at all, and can in fact be whipped up with products found at your local supermarket. In fact, there are only seven essential ingredients required for the whole
Catalonia: Recipes from Barcelona and Beyond
Located in the northeast of Spain, Catalonia borders France`s Pyrenees mountains and has a heritage and scenery like no other place in the world. In `Catalonia`, Jose Pizarro travels from the impressive Gaudi architecture in buzzy Barcelona, to the Roman and Greek ruins in Girona and secluded beaches in Costa Brava to create some of
Tuscany: Simple meals and fabulous feasts from Italy
“Tuscany is a region of the soul. It is impossible to regard it as a simple geographical location, to be merely “visited”. Tuscany must be felt, lived, loved.” – Giorgio De Martino. At the heart of every Tuscan there is a pride for their region and an incredible sense of responsibility and love for their
Pimp My Noodles: Over 50 Quick and Easy Noodle Recipes
When you want a feast in a flash, noodles are the obvious choice – quick, filling and utterly delicious. Pimp My Noodles shows you how, with just a few extra minutes and ingredients, you can elevate this store cupboard staple to a level you never thought possible. With over 50 imaginative noodle upgrades, this book
Vegan Goodness: Feasts – Plant-Based Meals for Big and Little Gatherings
There is nothing quite like sitting down to a meal with people you love. It`s a chance to switch off, share stories and enjoy time spent together. In `Vegan Goodness: Feasts`, Jessica Prescott invites you to embrace the ritual of cooking and eating together with over 70 fresh and exciting plant-based dishes perfect for entertaining
30-Minute Vegetarian: 100 Green Recipes to Prep in 30 Minutes or Less
In 30-Minute Vegetarian Swedish chef and food blogger Ylva Bergqvist explores the virtues of living and eating green. The concept is simple, ease your way into a mostly or full vegetable-forward diet by cooking dishes that are quick to prepare and impossible to resist. Half of the recipes in the book are completely vegan, the
The Book of Christmas: The Hidden Stories Behind Our Festive Traditions
Christmas. The biggest party in the world. The most widely celebrated festival on Earth. But why do we celebrate it the way we do? Over the years great scholars and gifted academics have wrestled each other to a bloodied standstill over the question of Christmas, only to retire baffled and broken. In The Book of
Little Green Kitchen: Simple vegetarian family recipes
Like most families, David and Luise know that the road to feeding your children isn`t always a straight one. They have raised three kids while writing their acclaimed vegetarian cookbooks and have experienced a fair share of food tossed on the floor and soup bowls left untouched. But they have also learned ways around this.
Tokyo Stories: A Japanese Cookbook
Tokyo is rightfully known around the world as one of the most exciting places to eat on the planet. From subterranean department store food halls to luxurious top-floor hotel restaurants, and all the noodle shops, sushi bars, and yakitori shacks in between, there may be no other city so thoroughly saturated with delicious food. `Tokyo
Apple: Recipes from the Orchard
Who doesn`t love apples? Grown, harvested and eaten for centuries, apples play an important role in everyday life and are enjoyed in a huge variety of ways. Author James Rich hails from apple country in Somerset, England, where his family own a cider farm. Apples, it could be said, are in his blood, this is
A Scandinavian Christmas: Festive Tales for a Nordic Noel
Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have yourself a nordic noel with the very best Scandinavian Christmas talesHave yourself a truly Scandinavian Christmas… Of visions and prophesies seen in dark, dark woods. Of toys and trees come to life. Of trolls raising chaos, and of families torn apart — only to be
The Snow Leopard
This is the account of a journey to the dazzling Tibetan plateau of Dolpo in the high Himalayas. In 1973 Matthiessen made the 250-mile trek to Dolpo, as part of an expedition to study wild blue sheep. It was an arduous, sometimes dangerous, physical endeavour: exertion, blisters, blizzards, endless negotiations with sherpas, quaking cold. But
Reading in the Dark
This is the story of a haunted childhood, a house where love and trust are hard to hold on to. The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with political hatred, family secrets and lethal intrigue. As a young boy tries to make sense of life, poverty and violence
In Praise Of Shadows: Vintage Design Edition
A fully illustrated, beautifully produced edition of Junichiro Tanizaki`s wise and evocative essay on Japanese culture.`We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates… Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.`The slim book you are holding
The Green Road
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2015 Man Booker PrizeHanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen – a woman
A Fairly Honourable Defeat
Funny, subversive, fearless and fiercely intelligent, Iris Murdoch was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. To celebrate her centenary Vintage Classics presents special editions of her greatest and most timeless novels.With an introduction by Garth Greenwell”I feel there are demons around.”Everyone is thinking about Julius King. For comfortable, long-married Hilda and Rupert,
Bestiary: The Selected Stories of Julio Cortazar
A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar`s sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.`Julio Cortazar is truly a sorcerer and the best of him is here, in these hilariously fraught and almost eerily affecting stories` Kevin BarryA grieving family home becomes the site of a terrifying invasion. A frustrated love triangle, brought together by a
Down and Out in Paris and London
THE AUTHORATITIVE TEXT `You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business`As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this, his early memoir, Orwell recalls with vivid clarity his time working as a
