This is not only a basic recipe book. It is also an essential guide and handy reference to the three major types of ovens on the market. If you are thinking of buying a microwave, or have bought one and want to get the best from it, you need this book.

Combination and Microwave Handbook (The Basic Basics)

BOWEN, Carol

History

Grub Street Cookery

This is Carol Bowen's sequel to her "Basic Basics Combination and Microwave Handbook", and it follows the same formula as an A to Z compendium. The reader looks up the fruit, the vegetable, the fish, the meat, the sauces, cakes or herbs, and there are quick guidelines on freezing each type of food. The author also explains how a freezer works, gives advice on choosing and siting a freezer, insurance, cleaning, maintenance, what to do in emergencies, packaging and accessories, freezing techniques and defrosting, refreezing and thawing as well as storage times.

Home Freezing Handbook (The Basic Basics)

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Canning & Preserving

With over 300,000 kitchen range owners throughout Great Britain, this book brings cooking on an Aga or Rayburn right up to date, offering a wide range of recipes to the country range user. Other work by the author includes "Basic Combination and Microwave Handbook".

Country Range Cookbook

Kitchen Appliances

The aim of this book is to provide quick and simple, yet impressive recipes for those who love to entertain but don't have much time. The book demonstrates the art of mixing quality "instant" foods such as couscous, filo pastry and ingredients from jars, with fresh natural ingredients such as poultry and seafood. The recipes intend to provide a three-course meal which takes less than two hours to prepare. Included are 50 complete dinner party menus, a variety of hints and tips, preparation order checklists, freezing and storing symbols and advice on which wine to serve with the meal. All of the menus are divided into spring, summer, autumn and winter meals, in order to make the best use of seasonal, fresh ingredients.

Dinners in a Dash: Sensational Three-Course Dinner Parties in Under 2 Hours

Harvard Taylor, Tessa

Quick & Easy

How to Cook from A-Z (The Basic Basics)

MacDonald, Janet

Cooking Education & Reference

If there is one book that belongs on the shelf of food lovers, it is Sicilian Food by Mary Taylor Simeti. This book is a classic, the definitive work on Sicilian cooking and it is full of authentic, hard to find recipes gleaned from the author's friends, family and acquaintances on the island itself. Originally published in 1989 under the title Pomp and Sustenance: Twenty Five Centuries of Sicilian Food and then unavailable for almost ten years, Mary Taylor Simeti’s affectionate, exhaustive work has come to be recognized as the definitive book on the food, traditions and recipes of this sun-drenched island. The author, an American married to a Sicilian, set out to discover Sicilian food first hand. She haunted former convents and palaces where Palermo's libraries have been maintained. She tested each ancient recipe herself and updated the methods. Her directions are clear and easy to follow. The book is organized so that the material reflects both the external influences of a series of conquerors, and the domestic changes brought about by peasant, clergy and aristocrat alike. Her chapter titles hint at the enticing discoveries waiting for the reader and the recipes reflect the chapter titles. There are recipes using the vegetable abundance of the Sicilian landscape, for ice cream or granita, and, yes there are recipes for Virgins Breasts and Chancellor's Buttocks. The book contains more than a hundred illustrations from Sicilian archives and museums and the text quotes freely from Homer, Plato, Apicius, Lampedusa, and Pirandello. Simeti's prose is so descriptive that to read it is to be in Sicily.

Sicilian Food: Recipes from Italy's Abundant Isle

SIMETI, MARY TAYLOR

Regional & International

This volume brings back to the kitchen the cycle of the seasons. It is written for people who care about eating well by using fresh foods in season and about feeding families with good food which is neither elaborate nor time-consuming.

Four Seasons Cookbook

COSTA, Margaret

Smith. Delia

Entertaining & Holidays

Very unfairly, the cuisine of Portugal remains largely unknown outside Portuguese-speaking communities. Perhaps it is presumed to be too much a poor relation of Spanish food to be worth exploring. If so, it is a pity, for, as Edite Vieira demonstrates in her classic The Taste of Portugal--now reissued by Grub Street--it retains a distinctive, vibrant identity. Among the very interesting characteristics of Portuguese food are the presence, uniquely in Europe, of fresh herb coriander as a flavoring, a most imaginative use of clams and what almost amounts to a mania for salt cod. The Taste of Portugal gives a wonderfully rounded picture of this robust and fascinating cuisine, with its bread-heavy soups, its salt cod and fish dishes, its high-flavored stews (in one well-known dish, combining pork and clams), its game and its extravagantly sweet desserts, rich with eggs. The first recipe is for what has become virtually a national dish: Caldo Verde, a simple but delicious potato soup enlivened with finely sliced greens. It was this soup which apparently prompted a British journalist to remark on the poverty of the Portuguese that forced them to make soup from grass. Edite Vieira provides a lively commentary that puts the food into its cultural and historical context--a number of the dishes are of great antiquity--and is an absolute delight to read. --Robin Davidson

Taste of Portugal

Vieira, Edite

Polish food is domestic, comfort food ideal for occasions when nothing other than hearty soup or rich-flavored stew will do and when generous hospitality is the order of the day. The harsh Polish winters mean that many key ingredients are those that are preserved or stored--dried mushrooms, pickled herrings, sauerkraut, hot paprika paste, fruits in syrup, cucumbers in brine and root vegetables--so it is the perfect cooking to create from store cupboard essentials.  Drawing on the culinary archives and expertise of her family and friends, Mary Pininska's The Polish Kitchen is a treasury of Polish cooking ancient and modern. It is enlivened with personal annecdotes and spiced with a wealth of customs and folk traditions.

Polish Kitchen

Pininska, Mary

The aim of this book is to explore "the psychology of abstention from flesh and to discover why omnivorous humans at times voluntarily abstain from an available food". Spencer begins in pre-history and ends in modern times.

VEGETARIANISM: A History

SPENCER, Colin

Vegetarian & Vegan

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