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The Chef At War (Great Food Series)
Alexis Soyer

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

The first celebrity chef - a kind of Anglo/French Jamie Oliver' Peter May

The flamboyant Frenchman Alexis Soyer was the most renowned chef in Victorian England. This is his colourful account of his time at the front in t... Buy or find out more 


Love In A Dish And Other Pieces (Great Food Series)
M.F.K. Fisher

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'Poet of the appetites' John Updike

M.F.K. Fisher's personal, intimate culinary essays are well-loved American classics, combining recipes with her anecdotes, reminiscences, cultural observations and passionate storytell... Buy or find out more 



A Middle Eastern Feast (Great Food Series)
Claudia Roden

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'Roden's great gift is to conjure up not just a cuisine but the culture from which it springs' Nigella Lawson

Award-winning food writer Claudia Roden revolutionized Western attitudes to the cuisines of the Middle East wi... Buy or find out more 


Eating With The Pilgrims And Other Pieces (Great Food Series)
Calvin Trillin

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'Marvellously funny and horrifyingly mouth-watering' Rolling Stone

Acclaimed New Yorker journalist, novelist and poet, Calvin Trillin is also America's funniest and best-loved writer about food. This selection of some of... Buy or find out more 



Notes From Madras (Great Food Series)
Colonel Wyvern

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

His recipes are so meticulous and clear, that the absolute beginner can follow them' Elizabeth David

Colonel Wyvern, stationed with the army in Madras during the height of British imperial rule, opened a cookery school u... Buy or find out more 


A Taste Of The Sun (Great Food Series)
Elizabeth David

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

Elizabeth David's . . . makes you want to cook' Terence Conran

Legendary cook and writer Elizabeth David changed the way Britain ate, introducing a postwar nation to the delights of sunny Mediterranean climes, and bringi... Buy or find out more 



From Absinthe To Zest: An Alphabet For Food Lovers (Great Food Series)
Alexandre Dumas

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'The cook book as literature' Guardian

As well as being the author of The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas was also an enthusiastic gourmand and expert cook. His Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine, published in 1873, is an e... Buy or find out more 


Murder In The Kitchen (Great Food Series)
Alice B. Toklas

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'It will be the fiercest Francophobe who can read Alice's recipes and not hanker for a taste' Time

In this memoir-turned-cookbook, Alice B. Toklas describes her life with partner Gertrude Stein and their famed Paris salo... Buy or find out more 



The Elegant Economist (Great Food Series)
Eliza Acton

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

The best writer of recipes in the English language' Delia Smith

Before Mrs Beeton there was Eliza Acton, whose crisp, clear, simple style and foolproof instructions established the format for modern cookery writing and m... Buy or find out more 


The Pleasures Of The Table (Great Food Series)
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'Marvellously tart and smart, and also comfortingly, absurdly French' A. A. Gill

Epicure and gourmand Brillat-Savarin was one of the most influential food writers of all time. His 1825 book The Physiology of Taste define... Buy or find out more 



Recipes From The White Hart Inn (Great Food Series)
William Verrall

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'Racily written' Alan Davidson

William Verral, the redoubtable eighteenth-century landlord of the White Hart Inn in Lewes, Sussex, trained under a continental chef and was determined to introduce the 'modern and best Fre... Buy or find out more 


The Well-Kept Kitchen (Great Food Series)
Gervase Markham

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for... Buy or find out more 



A Little Dinner Before The Play (Great Food Series)
Agnes Jekyll

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'An absolute delight to read' India Knight

Whether extolling the merits of a cheerful breakfast tray, conjuring up a winter picnic of figs and mulled wine, sharing delicious Tuscan recipes, or suggesting a last-minute pr... Buy or find out more 


Buffalo Cake And Indian Pudding (Great Food Series)
Dr A.W. Chase

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

Travelling physician, salesman, author and self-made man, Dr Chase dispensed remedies all over America during the late nineteenth century, collecting recipes and domestic tips from the people he met along the way. His se... Buy or find out more 



Recipes And Lessons From A Delicious Cooking Revolution (Great Food Series)
Alice Waters

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'Alice is the queen of simple, healthy, tasty food' Jamie Oliver

A champion of organic, locally produced and seasonal food and founder of acclaimed Californian restaurant Chez Panisse, Alice Waters has recently been awar... Buy or find out more 


Everlasting Syllabub And The Art Of Carving (Great Food Series)
Hannah Glasse

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'The first domestic goddess' Clarissa Dickson-Wright

Writing for domestic servants in a conversational, accessible way, eighteenth-century housewife Hannah Glasse disapproved of French terminology and fussiness, instead ... Buy or find out more 



The Joys Of Excess (Great Food Series)
Samuel Pepys

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

The most ordinary and the most extraordinary writer you will ever meet' Claire Tomalin

As well as being the most celebrated diarist of all time, Samuel Pepys was also a hearty drinker, eater and connoisseur of epicurean ... Buy or find out more 


Exciting Food For Southern Types (Great Food Series)
Pellegrino Artusi

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'The fountainhead of modern Italian cookery' Gastronomica

Pellegrino Artusi is the original icon of Italian cookery, whose legendary 1891 book Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well defined its national cuisin... Buy or find out more 



The Campaign For Domestic Happiness (Great Food Series)
Isabella Beeton

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'Sublime . . . A Victorian gem' Julian Barnes

Firmly of the belief that a home should be run as an efficient military campaign, Mrs Beeton, the doyenne of English cookery, offers timeless tips on selecting cuts of meat, ... Buy or find out more 


Dissertation Upon Roast Pig And Other Essays (Great Food Series)
Charles Lamb

$9.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

'The Georgian essayist, tender and puckish, with a weakness for oddity and alcohol' Observer

A rapturous appreciation of pork crackling, a touching description of hungry London chimney sweeps, a discussion of the strange... Buy or find out more 



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