From Paris to Palm Springs, pancakes are the hot new food trend. All over the world, people have discovered the joys of Sri Lankan hoppers, Keralan dosas, Vietnamese banh xeo, as well as the humble buttermilk pancake and blini. Posh Pancakes brings you over 70 recipes for this simple meal on a plate. Breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner and dessert, the dishes include Chinese pancakes with duck and hoisin sauce, Buckwheat galettes, Italian farinata, spicy Mexican hotcakes with smoky corn salad, and Chocolate and berry-stuffed pikelets. With a guide to basic pancake types and a photograph for every recipe, it's flipping gorgeous!

More than 100 fabulous, quick recipes. Traditional and contemporary creations for tasty, savory light meals any time. Nutritional analysis.

In Knead to Know: A History of Baking, food historian and chef Neil Buttery takes the reader on a journey exploring the creation, evolution and cultural importance of some of our most beloved baked foods, whether they be fit for a monarch's table, or served from the bakestone of a lowly farm labourer. This book charts innovations, happy accidents and some of the most downright bizarre baked foods ever created. Everything has a history, but food history is special because it tells so much about our culture and society, our desires and our weaknesses, from the broad sweep of bread creating human civilisation to the invention of the wedding cake, the creation of the whisk, the purpose of the fish heads in a star-gazy pie, or the fact that mince pies used to be meaty. When we think of the evolution of something, we think every step is an improvement, an incremental elevation toward some peak of perfection as technology improves. This is not always the case. Sometimes things have to become simpler, sometimes knowledge is lost and skills forgotten. As a baker of historical foods, Neil Buttery demonstrates that forgotten recipes and traditional techniques are worth trying out (and mention a few that should perhaps be left in the past). The reader will be inspired by the characters, creations and inventions of the past to be better and more adventurous bakers.

Even though they were mother and daughter they were known mostly as ‘the sisters’. It was a union that would lead them both into lives they wished they had not had. For thirty-five years, two women frighten each other through the fading twilight of the last century, their existence an unacknowledged tragedy of manners. Confusing their duty to one another for the feelings they’re too busy to mention, their desire for “modest social success” ends by asphyxiating whatever lies within its grasp. From the art galleries of Manhattan Island to the pubs of the North Yorkshire Moors, Nature and Necessity is a wild reimagining of the nineteenth-century realist novel, a story of siblings battling for survival and supremacy, a war story without armies, and a warning that even the most promising and prosperous of lives can be crushed by the fear of uttering the confession: I love you.

The Seriously Good Veggie Student Cookbook shows you how to ditch the takeaways and make meals you actually want to eat – with 80 delicious recipes. We all know the benefits of going meat-free – but when you're a student with limited shelf space, a tight budget and little kitchen experience, creating tasty veggie and vegan meals at home seems impossible. This book is here to change that. The Seriously Good Veggie Student Cookbook contains 80 recipes, all based around cheap, staple ingredients like rice, pasta, potatoes and bread, along with a helpful guide to equipment, hygiene and buying food on a budget. Whether you want library-friendly lunches like Vegan Caesar Pasta Salad, to homemade Falafel Pitas to prove to your parents you really can cook, this book has it all. And, with a photo for each recipe and easy-to-follow instructions, you'll never go hungry again! From fresher's week to graduation, this is the only cookbook you'll ever need.