An informative, beautiful, photography-filled edition that celebrates the seasonal bounty of Britain's produce as shown through the mind of one of the country's most exciting talents. In this book, Madalene Bonvini-Hamel brings her passion for seasonal, locally-sourced produce to the fore, aiding her crusade to convert all who love food to thinking and eating seasonally. This is a month-by-month tour of the best produce that the country has to offer, paired and transformed in her own unique way. Madalene's own sumptuous food photographs, created and styled by her own hands, make The British Larder Cookbook an incredibly glowing testament to her immense talent and her admirable ethos.

An informative, beautiful, photography-filled edition that celebrates the seasonal bounty of Britain's produce as shown through the mind of one of the country's most exciting talents. In this book, Madalene Bonvini-Hamel brings her passion for seasonal, locally-sourced produce to the fore, aiding her crusade to convert all who love food to thinking and eating seasonally. This is a month-by-month tour of the best produce that the country has to offer, paired and transformed in her own unique way. Madalene's own sumptuous food photographs, created and styled by her own hands, make The British Larder Cookbook an incredibly glowing testament to her immense talent and her admirable ethos.

The Japanese Larder is a stunning cookery book that demystifies Japanese ingredients and cooking by introducing key ingredients and techniques that are easy to acquire. Most of us have heard of ingredients such as miso, mirin, tofu and matcha, but how many of us feel confident using these ingredients in our everyday cooking? Or beyond the one or two recipes for which we bought the ingredients in the first place? In this beautifully illustrated cookbook, Luiz Hara introduces the ingredients in authentic Japanese recipes and shows you how they can transform all types of non-Japanese dish. With over 100 delicious and easy-to-make everyday recipes, you can discover how to use leftover miso, noodles or soy sauce to elevate any dish into a mouth-watering meal. From the author of Nikkei Cuisine, The Japanese Larder is an inspirational cookbook that celebrates the diversity and versatility of Japanese ingredients – from tofu and persimmon to green teas and dashi broth. Grab that packet of miso paste from your fridge, buy some ponzu or yuzu from the ethnic section of your local supermarket, and discover a new world of taste and flavour thanks to Luiz’s delicious recipes.

From Giuseppe Arcimboldo’s painting of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II as a heap of fruits and vegetables to artists depicting lavish banquets for wealthy patrons, food and art are remarkably intertwined. In this richly illustrated book, Gillian Riley provides fresh insight into how the relationship between humans and food has been portrayed in art from ancient times to the Renaissance. Exploring a myriad of images including hunting scenes depicted in Egyptian Books of Hours and fruit in Roman wall paintings and mosaics, Riley argues that works of art present us with historical information about the preparation and preservation of food that written sources do not—for example, how meat, fish, cheese, and vegetables were dried, salted, and smoked, or how honey was used to conserve fruit. She also examines what these works reveal to us about how animals and plants were raised, cultivated, hunted, harvested, and traded throughout history. Looking at the many connections between food, myth, and religion, she surveys an array of artworks to answer questions such as whether the Golden Apples of the Hesperides were in fact apples or instead quinces or oranges. She also tries to understand whether our perception of fruit in Christian art is skewed by their symbolic meaning. With 170 color images of fine art, illuminated manuscripts, mosaics, frescoes, stained glass, and funerary monuments, Food in Art is an aesthetically pleasing and highly readable book for art buffs and foodies alike.

A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desire All great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads to both. Here are sixty four short fictions of at times Joycean beauty--about schoolgirls hunting for razor clams in the strand; or searching for soup-stones to take out the fishiness of fish but to preserve the flavor of the sea; or about a mother and daughter tasting food in one another's mouth to see if people really do taste things differently--and at other times, of Mephistophelean mischief: about the woman who seasoned her food with the remains of her cremated cat, and later, her husband, only to hear a voice singing from her stomach (you can't swallow grief, she was advised); or the restaurant known as "The Air & Light," the place to be in this small coastal town that serves as the backdrop for Crace's gastronomic flights of fancy, but where no food or beverage is actually served, though a 12 percent surcharge is imposed just for just sitting there and being seen. Food for thought in the best sense of the term, The Devil's Larder is another delectable work of fiction by a 2001 winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award.

Venison is experiencing a growth in popularity as a delicious, healthy and increasingly available dish. Here are over 50 recipes from Head chef/Lecturer in Culinary Arts at Westminster Kingsway College, Jose Souto, the game expert who gives masterclasses to other chefs worldwide, as well as teaching a new generation of student chefs how to cook venison. Jose has added to his own repertoire of 30 dishes by inviting guest chefs to add their own favourite venison recipes to this book, opening up a wide range of dishes, from simple venison lasagne to elegant dinner-party show-stoppers. Not just a cookery book, this showcases British deer, deer-stalking and the delight in harvesting nature's bounty.

Robin Gill has revolutionised the way British food is cooked and enjoyed, with his philosophy of combining the best farm-to-table produce with those from a well-stocked larder. Charcuterie, fermenting, pickling, curing and smoking are just a few techniques included to create a healthy larder – which in turn will become your secret weapon in creating Robin's inspiring and delicious dishes, including melt-in-your-mouth vension with pear and Jerusalem artichokes or Loch Duart salmon with oyster emulsion, fennel and wakame. Each recipe is accompanied by stunning photography by Paul Winch-Furness.