The women behind the Roux empire celebrate French home cooking as it is today: fresh, elegant and deliciously simple.

Michael Caines, MBE, is a truly original British chef, who has created innovative and original dishes which have earned him two Michelin stars and numerous awards and accolades, including ‘the UK’s best all round restaurant’ (Hardens) and ‘perfect in every way’ (Sunday Times). For the last three years his flag ship restaurant, Gidleigh Park in Devon has been voted second only to Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck as Britain's best restaurant. Michael Caines at Home is his first book which contains nearly 100 exciting, delicious recipes suitable for cooking in domestic kitchens, distilled from a life time of passionate cooking.

An American translation of the definitive Guide Culinaire, the Escoffier Cookbook includes weights, measurements, quantities, and terms according to American usage. Features 2,973 recipes.

Now celebrating its 10th birthday, this edition is the discerning London restaurant goer's bible. Objective, reliable, and covering over 1,500 restaurants across the capital, the guide is supplemented with comprehensive indexes and 17 pages of maps.