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Fiction in the Kitchen - 30 Culinary Novels

Fiction in the Kitchen - 30 Culinary Novels

Culinary fiction leads the reader from the kitchen into cafes and restaurants and back to the dining table. Heroes and heroines are cooks or chefs or gastronomes and the plot always returns to food sooner or later.

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On Drinking by Kingsley Amis

Draft Copies: Books About Drink

We have selected 20 books, mostly from the dim and distant past, on drinking. Ale, wine, gin, inns, bars, cocktails, drinking songs, beer cans, bartending and staying off the stuff - it's all there.

Twenty Drinking Books

Julia Child

Julia Child's Cookery Books

Julia Child (1912-2004) can be thanked for introducing French cuisine to America - the land of hot dogs and apple pie - during the 1960s. Aside from her most famous creation, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Child wrote more than a dozen cookery books. Mastering the Art of French Cooking was first published in 1961 and her TV career began two years later.

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Manifold Destiny

Weird Cookery Books

From roadkill to bugs, car engines to Star Wars, take a peek at our Top Ten list of the world's weirdest cookery books.

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The Most Useful Cookery Books Ever!

The Most Useful Cookery Books Ever!

Waitrose supermarket recently released a list of the top ten cookery books that no kitchen should be without. Is your kitchen stocked with these titles?

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