book review

• 21 Bake it easy
  Market Kitchen regular Lorraine Pascale keeps cooking simple in her latest book. Baking Made Easy is the accompaniment to her recent TV series drawing on her passion for baking gained while working in...

• 22 Peppered beef with Cognac and Parma-wrapped greens
  Ingredients (Serves 4) Few glugs of olive oil 3 shallots, peeled and chopped Salt and freshly ground black pepper 800g (13⁄4lb) beef fillet 40g (11⁄2oz) butter ...

• 23 All things Indian
  Phaidon, publishers of many a stunning graphic design book, turn their hand to a few stunning cookbooks each year – the latest of which is a beautiful tome entitled simply India. The book is one...

• 24 In a stew
  You may have spotted ‘stewed!’ pots on the shelves of your local supermarket – if you haven’t they’re well worth a try instead of the usual take-away sandwich for lunch –...

• 25 Family feasts with Sarah Raven
  Food for friends and family is a seasonal guide to entertaining throughout the year packed with recipes to satisfy friends, relations, grown-ups and little ones alike. It has everything from jams for...

• 26 Flavour saver
  Not a recipe book as such, The Flavour Thesaurus by Niki Segnit is equally, if not more, of a powerful ally in the kitchen. If you’ve ever sat at home with a fridge full of leftovers and wondered...

• 27 Back to basics with Bill Grainger
  Our favourite Aussie chef is back bringing his cheerful style in his new volume Bill’s Basics. In the book, Bill Grainger takes 100 classic recipes and updates them for the 21st century, making a...

• 28 Far flung food with Stevie Parle
  Stevie Parle started cooking young at just 16 and since then has worked in three of the UK’s most famous and fashionable restaurants – the River Cafe, birthplace of Jamie Oliver’s cooking...

• 29 Father of fusion takes you on an epicurean adventure
  Peter Gordon is a chef often known as the father of fusion. It's a culinary style attempted by many and which few succeed at – earning it the nickname of ‘confusion cooking’. He led...

• 30 Perform magic tricks in the kitchen with Gizzi Erskine
  In her new book, Gizzi’s Kitchen Magic, Gizzi has broken down the boundaries between food and cool and packed the volume with plenty of delicious, interesting and innovative recipes. That's not...

• 31 Go nuts for noodles with Vatcharin Bhumitchitr
  Vatcharin Bhumitchitr has written a number of fantastic books on South East Asian food with plenty of great recipes and his latest, The Big Book of Noodles is a brilliant cookbook to add to your collection....

• 32 Go Ayurvedic with Anjum Anand
  The Nigella of Indian cuisine, Anjum Anand has released a new book based on the super-healthy Ayurvedic diet – the ‘science of life’. Whether you're wanting to lose weight or just looking...

• 33 Laura Santini shares her easy Italian ideas
  In her new book Easy Tasty Italian, Laura Santtini reveals the secrets of umami and other ingredients and shows how the simplest flavour combinations can transform your everyday dinners into sublime dishes...

• 34 Gordon Ramsay takes a culinary trip around the globe
  Gordon Ramsay’s new book, World Kitchen, is packed full of recipes from ten countries around the world with a focus on demystifying these cuisines and making them easy, enjoyable and approachable....

• 35 Berry brilliant baking
  Mary Berry’s Baking Bible is an essential book for the keen baker. A thorough walk through the world of cakes, pastries and all manner of sweet and savoury goodies will lead you straight to baking...

• 36 Peggy Porschen shows some real cake chic
  Peggy Porschen is best known as cake maker to the stars, having made spectacular cakes for the likes of Elton John, Stella McCartney and Madonna. Her third book, Cake chic, sees her teaching the art of...

• 37 A collection of summer recipes for your cook book collection
  The third book from successful restaurateur and hotelier Galton Blackiston, Summertime is vividly evocative of the traditional British seaside holiday, in the recipes, the photography and the story-telling....

• 38 Book review: 'Feed me now' by Bill Granger
  Aussie chef Bill Granger is well known for his relaxed, outdoor, Asian-influenced style of cooking. In his latest book, Feed Me Now, he has essentially taken the best elements of his food and turned them...