"Maynard Davies, the last of the traditional bacon apprentice-boys, and now retired master-curer, shares here with the reader his lifetime's knowledge of the art of smoking and curing.In this practical manual Maynard explains, step-by-step, how he did it all in his day - from choosing the best raw ingredients, to building one's own smokehouse, to the secrets of making the best sausage.After working in the profession for 60 years, Maynard wants to pass on his expertise to the next generation, in the hope that enthusiasts will get as much satisfaction from producing their own hams, bacons, sausages and countless other products, made with pride from the best ingredients, as he has always done. "

Vegetarian food is popular all over India, and people are growing to love the fresh, spicy and sweet flavours of authentic Indian cooking. Dan Toombs, The Curry Guy, has been on a quest to learn and develop the most celebrated meat-free Indian recipes, and in The Curry Guy Veggie he presents over 100 recipes that focus on taste and simplicity. Much vegetarian food at curry houses is unappealing and unimaginative. Curry Guy Veggie showcases how exciting Indian vegetarian food can be with mouth-watering starters, classic curries, idlis, dosas and fried breads, as well as the delicious side dishes that we all know and love. All of the ingredients are accessible and easy to find in supermarkets, Asian grocers and online - and with Dan's detailed step-by-step instructions, you'll be making your own vegetarian curry feasts in no time at all.

Pickling is more than a form of food preservation. It is also a way of turning mild-flavored vegetables and fruits into crunchy, tangy side dishes and intensely flavored condiments. In Pickling Everything, food preservation expert Leda Meredith covers the ins and outs of home pickling, explaining the differences between lacto-fermented probiotic pickles and vinegar-based pickling and how to pickle and can safely. In addition to favorites like cucumbers, green beans, and beets, she includes recipes for nuts, legumes, eggs, and meats, encouraging readers to try something new. The 80+ recipes include: Half Sours (deli dills) Tabasco-Style Hot Sauce 48-Hour Mixed Garden Pickles Spiced Pickled Plums Make the most of garden and farmers' market abundance, create fabulous gifts, and expand your pantry with the unique flavors of pickled foods.

Leaf is a celebration of edible leaves in all their versatility. Purely in terms of flavor they offer immense variety - bitterness, pungency, pepper, citrus, sweetness. And visually leaves are a riot of color and texture - from the palest shades of white and yellow, through to the deepest, darkest greens, via rich purples, reds and pinks. Leaves can be tightly furled torpedoes or bullets, floppy with a peony blowsiness, spiky, crinkly, curly, delicate, and feathery. They range from the tiniest of microherb to huge elephant ears, a meal in a leaf. From lettuce and herbs, through cabbages and even tea, Catherine Phipps explores the world of culinary leaves through meticulous research, evocative writing and foolproof recipes. With recipes taking in soups, salads, brunches, starters, mains, desserts, baking, preserves, and drinks, this is the complete, definitive book of cooking with leaves of all kinds.

Lactose intolerance or an allergy to milk means avoiding cream, butter, milk, cheese, yoghurt, and ice cream as well as many prepared foods to which lactose is added such as bread, cereal, salad dressings, cake mixes, frozen meals. The Everyday Dairy-Free Cookbook explains all you need to know about this condition, how to tackle the problem and where to go for help and advice. As with the other titles in this best-selling Everyday series the book contains 200 recipes for family meals and there is a special section on catering for children. There are dairy-free recipes for soups, dips and starters, light meals, main dishes, fish dishes, vegetarian dishes, savoury sauces and accompaniments, salads and dressings, puddings, sweet sauces, sweets and treats, baking, pastry, breakfasts, and beverages. If you or someone in your family cannot tolerate lactose this book will make catering for their needs simple and straightforward with so many meals to choose from.

Potato and rice are the two main staples of our diet, but their potential is often sadly overlooked. Here they are brought to the fore in one comprehensive volume offering information about varieties and preparation, but more importantly hundreds of tempting ways to cook with them. Potatoes make an excellent base for soups and appetizing snacks, and can be used in an astonishing array of dishes, from classic pies, bakes and stews, to gnocchi, quiches and pizzas. Rice is an ideal partner for almost any ingredient, and you can learn here how to perfect all the varieties of rice, including risotto, paella, biryani, sushi or rice pudding.

Black, green, white and oolong teas, as well as herbal infusions, have numerous health benefits. Infused with fresh, vitamin-rich fruits, they become a delicious way to increase your liquid consumption. Cold brewing tea, according to Mimi Kirk, is the best way to achieve a smooth taste and extract the antioxidants and other benefits from the tea. For cold days or when you're under the weather, her hot water infusions will warm and soothe. Kirk shares 70 recipes including: Black Cold Brew Tea + Blackberries, Green Cold Brew Tea + Lavender + Lemon and Rosemary Hot Water Infusion + Strawberries. With gorgeous photography, Tea-Vitalize gives information about the health properties of each ingredient.

150 signature starters, main courses and desserts featuring Gin; introducing "The Ginologist Cook". Written, simmered, grilled, sliced and baked by South African clever food "maker-uppers" who mixed Gin with their food to achieve new flavours, textures and experiences to bring the world a book which gives Tonic Water a run for its money. The famous South African Rose Geranium infused in the Floral Gin becomes delightful and complex, a showpiece of this recipe collection, and has brought new flavour to cooking. Extracts from the flower - also known to have age defying qualities - are used in skin creams. Ginologist Gin was created in 2016 by South African Gin enthusiasts Matt Van Wyk and Richard Kolbe as a hobby. Ginologist Spice, Citrus and Floral Gins each won awards at the 2017 Michaelangelo Wine and Spirits Awards in South Africa. Pieter Carter, the Chief Distiller, is passionate about flavour and created the first recipe before the book was conceived; Floral Gin and Clotted Cream Ice Cream. The family and friends hobby has fast become a household brand distributed internationally. The Ginologist Distiller vows to always give the attention and love to every drop of Gin he creates no matter how many bottles. Realising the amazing flavours Gin can infuse into food The Ginologist Distiller is experimenting with Pantry Essentials to give the discerning home cook even more to get excited about; Gincentrates; tubes of yummy gin reductions. Photographed at the five star Hemmingway's Restaurant & Wine Cellar in Pretoria, South Africa the book includes stunning photographs of the naturally landscaped exotic gardens and woodland. Whoever thought we would be creating dishes using Gin? This book contains recipes cooks can enjoy making for the family, dinner parties and on special occasions. There are starters to savour and divine desserts. Pumpkin Tart, Short Ribs, Savoury Cheesecake, Ice Cream, panacotta, Oysters and a Ginoholic Victoria Sponge! Meat, fish and vegetarian savoury dishes inspired by spicy Cape Malay cuisine from The Cape of South Africa are sitting next to sweet fruity desserts inspired by French Pastry Chefs. This eclectic mix of culinary creations demonstrates South Africa can win the world's heart through its stomach. Gin and Tonic who? The Ginologist Distiller meets The Ginologist Cook, in 150 delicious recipes with Gin.

A Field Guide to Cheese is the ultimate guide to the world of cheese and the only fully illustrated cheese reference. This tour de fromage begins with a history lesson on the creation of cheese, offers a primer of the many types of milks and categories of cheeses, and then leads readers to an encyclopedic survey of over 400 global cheeses. There are cheeses we all love like feta and fontina, Gouda and mozzarella, Pecorino Romano and chevre--but also rarities like King River Gold, a washed-rind cheese from Australia; Dancing Fern, a raw cow's-milk cheese from Tennessee; and Danbo, a semisoft, aged cheese from Denmark. Find cheeses that are best for melting, like hushallsost; those that are best served alone, such as bovski sir; and those that are the stinkiest, like Allgauer Weisslacker. There are cheeses with natural rinds, floral rinds, and soft rinds; curd cheeses; spreadable cheeses; pressed cheeses; whey cheeses; fresh cheeses; and more! A global collection of maps place each cheese to its origin, and readers can take their knowledge even further by reading up on the microbial life of cheese and the science behind our tasting palates. Packed with information, this book is for professional cheesemongers just as much as it is for those with a simple love of cheese.

If you have decided you want to be vegan, where do you start?

Or if you are an experienced cook, how do you make plant-based meals that are delicious and full of variety?

And if you are already vegan but looking for inspiration, are there simple principles to help you come up with your own dishes?

Ask no more - The Happy Pear: Vegan Cooking for Everyone has the answers. After twenty years of plant-based cooking, bestselling chefs Dave and Steve Flynn have developed an encyclopaedic knowledge of how it works and how to make vegan food simple, creative and totally irresistible.

Dave and Steve's new book distils all their knowledge into ten chapters that are full of master recipes, step-by-step guides, fun variations and top tips, and an approach to plant-based eating that will inspire you to become the best cook of vegan food you can possibly be.

"Food is life. Food is the key to vitality, goodness, happiness, and a strong body and mind." Compiled by five women living in Igloolik, Nunavut, this collection of recipes brings together healthy traditional country foods-like seal, Arctic char, and caribou-with store-bought produce to create delicious meals that can be an alternative to pre-packaged foods. With details on food safety and storage, as well as information on how to build a healthy, nutritious diet, this book will help even novice cooks feel empowered to begin cooking from scratch at home. With tasty recipes from land and sea-from Arctic char pizza to caribou chilli-this beautifully photographed cookbook provides wholesome, hearty meals that will become family favourites for years to come.

We LOVE potatoes, and why not? At only 100 calories per spud, they're an incredible source of vitamins and minerals (they pack more vitamin C than tomatoes and oranges), and contain 60 different kinds of phytochemicals and vitamins in their skins and flesh. They are also one of the most popular of foods, whether it's a bowl of buttery mash, a cone of salty chips at the seaside or a baked spud with melting cheese on top. But perhaps the most amazing thing about potatoes is how useful they are This book looks at every aspect of this humble vegetable, from its origins and how it spread around to world, to how to grow them, cook and eat them. From comfort food to eye watering poteen, we can also use them to clean silverware, remove rust, shine shoes, create a decorative stamp and alleviate arthritis, heartburn, and even cure scurvy!

Rice is one of the most versatile and delicious foods in the world. From risottos to nasi goreng, pilaf to pies, puddings to snack bars, this extraordinary grain is an essential ingredient in so many classic dishes. Posh Rice offers over 70 brand new recipe ideas for rice, with sections on soups & snacks (pakoras, bechamel fritters, sticky rice summer rolls), salads & bowls (sesame, avocado and salmon rice bowl, chicken burrito bowls, Persian rice salad), main courses (bibimbap, risi e bisi, lamb Hyderabadi biryani, seafood paella, Hong Kong claypot rice), side dishes (coconut and cashew rice, mudajahhra) and desserts and sweets (Belgian rice tart, Balinese black rice pudding, summer berry rice cream). With tips on storecupboard essentials and a guide to types of rice, and with a photograph of every single recipe, Posh Rice gives you a wealth of fast and tasty meal solutions.

This stylish guide to making authentic Japanese sushi and sashimi contains inspirational recipes that show in clear step-by-step format how to make well-known sushi and sashimi dishes, plus some regional dishes. Basic recipes and techniques are provided, as well as information on unusual ingredients and special equipment. Packed with 75 photographs, this book is an irresistible guide to preparing tasty sushi and sashimi.

In today's world of ready meals and snacking, the value of healthy eating has never been more important. Seafood is one of the healthiest things you can put on your plate: fish is good for the heart, improves circulation, keeps your joints mobile and your eyes healthy, and is packed with minerals. There's even evidence it can boost your brain power. In this book, Sally MacColl presents 50 delicious tried-and-tested seafood recipes featuring produce from the waters around her home island of Mull, including salmon, trout, haddock and mackerel as well as mussels, langoustine, lobster, scallops and crab. Arranged in five main sections - Quick and Easy Fish Recipes, Quick and Easy Recipes with Smoked Fish, Quick and Easy Recipes with Shellfish, Favourite Fish Recipes, and Sides and Sauces - and featuring a host of mouth-watering dishes, from Smoked Salmon Hash to Scallops with Island Black Pudding and Garlic Butter, Sally also includes useful information on buying and preparing fish.

The vast sub-continent of India has a range of cuisines as diverse as its cultures. This book is a carefully planned combination of classic and traditional dishes, recipes adapted and devised to cater for modern trends in healthy eating, and curries prepared in the popular and exciting Balti stove-top style. Among the classics you will find all the famous recipes much-loved by all, including Samosas, Bhajias, Naan, Chapati, Kashmiri-style Lamb, Spicy Kebabs, Bombay Duck, Tandoori Chicken, Korma, Dhal and Bombay Potato. Each of the recipes features at-a-glance nutritional information, making this the ultimate cook's guide to Indian cuisine.

Make the most of the international curry culture and expand your culinary horizons with this sizzling collection of 500 of the world's best curry dishes. Cook the classics with recipes for Chicken Satay or Coronation Potatoes, and then try something a little unusual, like Mackerel in Tamarind or Lamb Korma with Mint. In addition, the book has a wonderful selection of spicy appetizers, side dishes, salads, relishes, rice dishes and accompanying breads. A plentiful range of vegetarian options is also included. Whether you like your curries red-hot or prefer a milder, more complex taste, there are recipes here to suit every palate.