Food and Drink
Curry: Fragrant Dishes from India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
Dorling Kindersley, flexiback, € 27.20
This work talks about fragrant dishes from 18 regions including India, Thailand, Vietnam, the Caribbean and Indonesia.With this book you can take your taste buds on a global adventure. Invite top chefs, writers and cooks into your kitchen, from Vivek Singh (The Cinnamon Club), Das Sreedharan (Rasa Restaurants) to David Thompson (Nahm) and they'll share their secrets for authentic, taste-tingling curries that are easy to create at home. Learn how to make authentic disheslike Thai green jungle curry, chicken makhani from old Delhi, perfumed pasanda from Pakistan and South African bunny chow. Discover which ingredients make each dish special, and follow step-by-step techniques that make every recipe clear. Cook up the best accompaniments and side dishes to complete the perfect meal.
Good Food 101 More One-Pot Dishes
BBC, paperback, € 8.00
Finding wholesome meals that don't require hours in the kitchen can sometimes be tricky, and unfamiliar or complex recipes can be off-putting. That's why "Good Food" have put together another compact cookbook of recipe suggestions that will appeal to all the family and can be cooked with minimum effort - using just one pot. It's full of classic, balanced and easy-to-prepare dinners perfect for busy weeknights, as well as more relaxed weekend mealtimes. "101 More One-pot Dishes" caters for all tastes, with veggie ideas, great dishes for entertaining and even delicious desserts. Every recipe is accompanied by a full-colour photograph and a nutritional breakdown so you can serve your family healthy, home-cooked, tried-and-tested food every day of the week.
Cyprus Comprehensive Wine Guide
Xenia Theodotou Schneider, paperback, € 19.95
Xenia Schneider is a certified sommelier, consultant and teacher and presents in her book 39 Cypriot wineries and 219 Cypriot wines professionally tasted, evaluated and commented upon. Also included is food pairing for each wine and how to buy store, serve, taste and pair wines. Her book complements the official Cyprus wine routes.
Falling Cloudberries
Tessa Kiros, paperback, € 28.80
"Falling Cloudberries" is filled with the recipes that have woven their way through the life of Tessa Kiros and her family, from the sweets handed out at Scottish fetes on days off from a Greek school in South Africa to the rice puddings with rosewater and cinnamon made in a shed by her Cypriot grandfather and the gravlax with dill prepared by her Finnish mother. The book features over 150 recipes, all of which have been lovingly collected and adapted by Tessa since early adulthood, or remembered and recreated from childhood. Some are redolent of roses, cinnamon, cassia and cardamom, mint and citrus, from the Greek side of the family, others are Scandinavian in origin, sprinkled with berries or dill and spread with mustard. Chilli, garlic, oregano, cumin and red onions appear, and there are chocolate, vanilla, cream and pistachio confections from childhoods the world over. A Peruvian housekeeper makes a contribution, and a Thai soup appears, simply because Tessa couldn't imagine her life without it.
World Kitchen: Recipes from the f Word
Gordon Ramsey, hardback, € 32.00
What do you fancy for dinner tonight? Italian? Chinese? French? With so many varieties of cuisine on offer, Gordon Ramsay has put together a book featuring his favourite recipes from around the world. Each chapter features a different country's dishes that we love to eat, and would love to learn more about. Gordon delves into Middle Eastern, American, Thai, Chinese, Indian, Spanish, French, Italian, Greek, and even our own British. There are recipes for starters, mains and desserts. In addition, he explains certain techniques to go along with each type of cuisine. For example, he shows how to make Pasta, which is then transported into his recipe for Spinach, Ricotta and Pinenut Ravioli, and Curry Paste which is used for a Fragrant Green Curry with Beef.
Vefas Kitchen
Vefa Alexiadou, hardback , € 39.95
Vefa Alexiadou the leading culinary authority in Greece today has produced an all-encompassing Greek recipe book in English. Doing for Greek cuisine what "Silver Spoon" did for Italian, it contains more than 700 fully updated, straightforward and mouthwatering recipes. Aimed at all lovers of Mediterranean food, the book will appeal to anyone who loves to cook easy, tempting and delicious dishes, from simple but stunning salads and mezedes in summer, to slowly simmered meat dishes and crisp filo pastries in winter. As well as presenting definitive recipes for taverna favourites such as moussaka, tzatziki and hummus, the book documents the extraordinary variety of local sweets and pastries, delicious home-baked breads and cheeses of the mountainous interior, as well as the fish and vegetable dishes of coastal areas, simply fragranced with lemons and herbs. Like Italian cuisine, Greek cooking is incredibly simple and delicious, and is based on the natural qualities of good olive oil, fruit and vegetables, grains and seafood. And more than almost any other cuisine, modern Greek food contains many traces of its remarkable history, with its origins as far back as Homer and the 'wine-dark' Aegean Sea of the Iliad.
The Olive and the Caper
Susanna Hoffman, paperback € 24.00
A culinary celebration of Greece, "The Oliver and the Caper" features 325 recipes for everything Greek--from Chicken Neo-Avgolemeno to Baklava--plus dozens of lively essays about the origins of Greek food, history, village life, and more. Photos throughout with a 16-page color insert.