Category: Reviews
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Llŷn Land and Sea Food Festival
I will talk about wild food and foraging at the Llŷn Land and Sea Food Festival this Saturday and Sunday. I thought it would be helpful for anyone attending those talks to have a guide to the sort of books that may help them identify and eat the wild food they find. This is very…
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WMF ‘Perfect’ Pressure Cooker review
A pressure cooker is an essential item for every kitchen. If I could only have one cooking vessel, it’d be a pressure cooker. They are versatile, easy to use, energy-efficient and help you cook delicious, healthy and quick meals. I needed wanted a replacement for my old Prestige pressure cooker. And, thanks to a Twitter…
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Food for your ears: podcasts
It’s been a while since I’ve written here. The first half of 2014 was pretty full on finishing design & proofs for my book, then its launch and aftermath. Home and garden deserved and needed some proper attention. So writing took a back seat from the summer onwards. My return was a tad delayed when…
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A Change of Appetite: where healthy meets delicious by Diana Henry – Review
A Change of Appetite: where healthy meets delicious by Diana Henry – Review This was a book I needed. And I don’t mean ‘need’ in that “I’ve been a good boy and deserve a treat” sort of way. However I didn’t know it met my need until I read it. I bought it because I…
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Jade Pearls and Alien Eyeballs – Emma Cooper Interview
I had a lot of fun yesterday when I interviewed Emma Cooper about her new e-book, Jade Pearls and Alien Eyeballs as part of Emma’s virtual book tour. Update 21st April 2015: I’m delighted Emma now has a print version of Jade Pearls and Alien Eyeballs that you can buy from Amazon. Emma’s book is…
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The Plant Nutter’s Virtual Book Club
My friend (and newly qualified Ethnobotanist) Emma Cooper has started a virtual book club. More about Emma’s studies later, as we were a case study in Emma’s thesis. Her idea is that participants will read a set book every other month and we then discuss this online. For more details about how this will work…
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Salumi by Ruhlman & Polcyn – Review
Salumi delivers on its promises. If you want a comprehensive, understandable, useable and enjoyable guide to how to dry cure & preserve meats Italian style, this is it. It’s suitable for the chef, semi-pro or novice home practitioner. I wish that this book had been published a few years earlier to save me some hard…
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Peat Free Diet Audio Book Review
Emma Cooper – The Peat Free Diet – Audio Book Running time in excess of 2 hours The Peat Free Diet (PFD) on Emma’s blog is a really useful resource for anyone interested in growing things. If you’re also interested in saving peat bogs by going peat free, then all the better: the book or…
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Gran Cocina Latina by Maricel E Presilla – Review
Maricel Presilla’s Gran Cocina Latina (Great Latin Cuisine) is a magnum opus in every sense of the phrase and I love it. It’s a huge work of 901 pages which took Presilla nearly 30 years to research and write. And it shows. It covers the history, lore, culture and recipes of Latin American food &…