This book presents a cross-cultural comparison between British and Japanese cultures focusing on requests and responses. The study is based on data elicited from a questionnaire which lists the choices of strategies for making requests and responding to off-record requests, taking into account the variables power, social distance and imposition. The author's findings suggest important refinements to Brown and Levinson's politeness categorisation and question the validity of cultural stereotypes. Drawing on the distinction between individualist and collectivist cultures, this study also accounts for differences between the politeness strategies in British English and Japanese.

Now in its second edition, The Children's Party Book has become an invaluable reference for parents and carers short on time and ideas. It contains 240 ideas for games and craft activities that will make any children's party, from 3 to 12 years, go with a swing. All the activities are clearly presented with illustrations, diagrams and step-by-step practical descriptions, and are coded for age-suitability. Special topics covered include: how to celebrate that special birthday; how to make and perform a simple theatre for young children; how to organize parties with a seasonal theme; and how to make attractive decorations.

In this updated and revised edition, How to be a Lady is a helpful handbook that teaches women and young girls manners, attitude, appropriate dress, and social skills. Despite how different things are today, the principles of good manners remain the same. This resourceful book teaches ladies how to maintain patience and civility. In How to Be a Lady, some of the topics highlighted include: how to properly select clothing and get dressed for any occasion attending a party and hosting a party office manners and etiquette personal hygiene for women cell phone etiquette and how to conduct private conversations How to Be a Lady is a thoughtful gift for birthdays and graduations or for seasonal occasions such as easter baskets, stocking stuffers, and holiday gift giving. This version includes how to communicate, shop, and meet new people through cell phones and computers. Becoming a lady is a lifelong exercise in refining etiquette, social interaction, and personal discipline. It all continues here.

Irresistible feasts to share and remember with family and friends from the ocean, fields and clifftops of Cornwall. Simon Stallard set up The Hidden Hut to huge critical acclaim in 2011. An outdoor restaurant in Cornwall, tucked down on a remote sandy beach with no road access and completely off grid. He cooks up huge atmospheric open-air feasts for their diners throughout the year. In 2017, over 22,000 people applied for just 600 covers over their summer season, with tickets selling out within minutes of release each month, making it the hottest restaurant ticket in the UK. Simon's cooking techniques have become iconic in Cornwall - from fire pits in the sand to wind-chime fish smokers and wood-fired rotisseries - his feasts are influenced by the smouldering fires and field-to-fork Cornish produce that fill his outdoor beach kitchen. The Hidden Hut cookbook showcases inspiration for creating magical and memorable feasts. The recipes are adapted for the home cook and include delicious, achievable dishes for both small family meals and larger gatherings. Many of the recipes have the option to be cooked indoors conventionally or outdoors over fire. As well as sharing the feasts that made them so famous, there are further favourite Hidden Hut recipes for filling your flask with soups, chowders and spiced dhals, alfresco summer salads, warming winter braises and homely Cornish treats.

How to create a delicious charcuterie board tailored to any occasion and taste, and use charcuterie in simple recipes. Want to make the most of the wide variety of charcuterie products available today? From cured meats, smoked sausages and salami to pâtés and rillettes, you’ll find the perfect serving suggestion here. Travel around the world and get to know well-known charcuterie from the obviously popular countries of Italy, Spain and France, delving deeper into the regional intricacies to really understand the origins and appeal. Charcuterie Boards also invites you to travel a bit wider and sample some hidden gems from Germany, the UK, Poland and further afield to discover flavours from around the world. Learn how to match and put together visually impressive and delicious charcuterie boards. Choose from a range of themed boards, to help you create a variety of table showstoppers to wow your guests; or even just when dining solo or for two to really get to know charcuterie and all its wonderful flavours. There is endless possibility for different charcuterie combinations to suit all occasions from grouping various salamis from different countries for a taste sensation, to creating the perfect charcuterie board for an on-the-move picnic. 

From the wildly creative team behind Philadelphia's Art in the Age comes The Cocktail Workshop, a deep-dive into 20 classic drinks that make up the foundation of cocktail creation, and the delicious variations that will make them all your own. Learn to craft a perfect, classic drink, or workshop that creation into a unique, flavor-forward spin with The Cocktail Workshop, an indispensable guide to foundational cocktails and the tools to elevate them into master-level creations. In this richly illustrated book, the team behind Philadelphia's beloved Art in the Age guides aspiring mixologists through the fundamentals of 20 essential cocktails. Then, each foundational drink is spun off into creative and customizable riffs on flavors, techniques, and ingredients, called Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master versions. Each classic drink is concluded by a Workshop: how to take your at-home bar efforts to the next level with aging, infusing, garnishing, and more. Drawing on the building blocks of iconic cocktails like the daiquiri and the old-fashioned, readers will grow their knowledge base as they move through each drink, taking away real skills for their home bar -- like the proper way to dry-shake an egg white cocktail or carve a manicured lime twist -- and an understanding of the fundamentals of cocktailing: how drinks are created, related, and integrated.

From Jennifer Scott-author of the New York Times bestselling Madame Chic series and founder of the Daily Connoisseur blog-comes this playful take on manners and being a good global citizen. Parents and younger children work together to read about a wide range of topics: communication, table manners, tidiness, thinking of others, grooming, and health. Activities, learning games, fill-in-the-blanks, letter-writing exercises, recipes (for food and for slime!), and some fun songs and rhymes help kids learn concepts and practice good behaviors. Featuring charming illustrations and go-to advice from a trusted source, this is a timely guide for raising well-mannered, neat, and gracious children for parents, grandparents, and children of reading age.

Mulletheads unite! Grif Griffin is entirely enamored of Mugil cephalus, the striped or black mullet. "A pecan with fins, " he calls it. And he's compiled here dozens of recipes to celebrate this bullet-headed silvery delicacy.

This book tells you everything you need to know about how to have a good time eating and drinking. It's about food that's fun, that's designed to share, and in many cases designed to be enjoyed with a tropical drink in one hand. There are recipes for more than 100 dishes and drinks in chapters including Talking Taco, Couch Cruising (meals for your next big night in), Pick it Up and Eat It (snacks, starters and share plates), Fancy Schmancy (restaurant-style mains to impress), You CanWin Friends With Salad, 3 PM Breakfast (the most important meal of the day any time of the day) and Sweet Thangs. Fascinating features you won't find in any other cookbook include a 'World of Schnitzels' map and '50 Shades of Beige Baby! a dude food photomontage.

'A very special book' DIANA HENRY.

'Perfect' NINA STIBBE.

The Little Library Year takes you through a full twelve months in award-winning food writer Kate Young's kitchen. Here are frugal January meals enjoyed alone with a classic comfort read, as well as summer feasts to be eaten outdoors with the perfect beach read to hand.

Beautifully photographed throughout, The Little Library Year is full of delicious seasonal recipes, menus and reading recommendations.

'A wonderful, brilliant book' RUBY TANDOH.

'The best present a food-obsessed bookworm could ask for' OLIA HERCULES.

'Tender, gorgeous, clever and generous' ELLA RISBRIDGER.

'Bibliophile foodies have a treat in store for them. Many treats, in fact' JASPER FFORDE.

Erin Jeanne McDowell, New York Times contributing baker extraordinaire and top food stylist, wrote the book on pie, a comprehensive handbook that distills all you'll ever need to know for making perfect pies. The Book on Pie starts with the basics, including ways to mix pie dough for extra flaky crusts, storage and freezing, recipe size conversions, and expert tips for decorating and styling, before diving into the recipes for all the different kinds of pies: fruit, custard, cream, chiffon, cold set, savory, and mini. Find everything from classics like Apple Pie and Pumpkin Pie, to more inspired recipes like Birthday-Cake Pie and Caramel Pork Pie with Chile and Scallions. Erin also suggests recommended pie doughs and toppings with each recipe for infinitely customizable pies: Mix and match Pumpkin Spice Pie Dough and Dark Chocolate Drippy Glaze with the Pumpkin Pie, or sub in the Chive Compound-Butter Crust for the Croque Madame Pielets . . . the possibilities are endless. With helpful tips, photographic guides, and inspirations-pie-deas-it's almost like having Erin in the kitchen baking pies with you.

Bestselling cookbook shares the secrets to easy, attractive, and delicious spreads With 40 contemporary spreads to graze on presented with gorgeous photography, easy recipes, and helpful tips An inspiring resource for throwing unforgettable get-togethers: Platters and Boards is the guide to entertaining with effortless style. Author Shelly Westerhausen shares the secrets to creating casually chic spreads anyone can make and everyone will enjoy (and envy). Organized by time of day, 40 contemporary arrangements are presented with gorgeous photography, easy-to-prepare recipes, suggested meat and drink pairings, and notes on preparation and presentation. With recipes and presentation ideas for breakfast, brunch, appetizer, antipasto, charcuterie, and cheese boards to share with friends and family Makes an inspiring bridal shower, housewarming, or hostess gift Celebrated cookbook author and food blogger Shelly Westerhausen is the author of Vegetarian Heartland and the founder of the blog Vegetarian Ventures Fans of Shelly Westerhausen's other books, such as Tables & Spreads, or books like Cook Beautiful, The Art of the Cheese Plate, InStyle Parties, Magnolia Table, and Cravings will love Platters and Boards. A visual cornucopia of a cookbook with 40 contemporary arrangements presented with gorgeous photography, easy recipes, and helpful tips including: Tips on portioning Guides to picking surfaces and vessels Recommendations for pairing complementary textures and flavors A handy chart featuring board suggestions for a variety of occasions from holiday parties to baby showers

'A moving testimonial to the redemptive power of cooking. Risbridger knows that it offers not just solace but a map; cooking can save you. Generous, honest and uplifting. I wish I'd had this book when I was in my twenties' Diana Henry

Recipes that reveal the life-changing happiness of cooking

There are lots of ways to start a story, but this one begins with a chicken…

There was a time when, for Ella Risbridger, the world had become overwhelming. Sounds were too loud, colours were too bright, everyone moved too fast. One night she found herself lying on her kitchen floor, wondering if she would ever get up – and it was the thought of a chicken, of roasting it, and of eating it, that got her to her feet and made her want to be alive.

Midnight Chicken is a cookbook. Or, at least, you'll flick through these pages and find recipes so inviting that you will head straight for the kitchen: roast garlic and tomato soup, uplifting chilli-lemon spaghetti, charred leek lasagne, squash skillet pie, spicy fish finger sandwiches and burnt-butter brownies. It's the kind of cooking you can do a little bit drunk, that is probably better if you've got a bottle of wine open and a hunk of bread to mop up the sauce. But if you settle down and read it with a cup of tea (or a glass of that wine), you'll also discover that it's an annotated list of things worth living for – a manifesto of moments worth living for. This is a cookbook to make you fall in love with the world again.

Save time getting meals to the table with simple, homestyle recipes that can be ready in a jiffy! Bbrimming with over 200 recipes for whipping up quick & easy meals for a hungry family. Every recipe features shortcut ingredients, quick-to-fix directions or handy make-ahead tips. Inside you'll find: Time-saving shortcuts to shave minutes off of prep time Make-ahead tips that make mealtime a breeze Time-saving shortcuts to shave minutes off of prep time Make-ahead tips that make mealtime a breeze Ingredient swaps to help customize recipes

Berthold has found himself stuck with an overabundance of both smoked and dried squid! Perhaps the staff at Nobu can come up with a few bright ideas to put it to use... It's the 10th volume of the otherworldly gourmet fantasy story, where delicious dishes nourish both body and soul.

Take your snack boards to the next level-filling a table or kitchen counter-with these 50 delicious, inspiring, family-friendly, and easy-to-put-together food spreads and DIY bars for all occasions. The BakerMama is back! In this follow-up to her best-selling Beautiful Boards, Maegan Brown has created not just a cookbook, but an entertaining resource. Spectacular Spreads features over 250 recipes, gorgeous photography, and endless ideas that you can follow to a tee or mix and match. Discover even more of the BakerMama's tips and tricks for effortless, stress-free, and foolproof entertaining that will impress your guests and feed a hungry crowd, all while allowing you to relax and enjoy the occasion. Visually exciting and deliciously enticing, the spreads and bars are comprised of a combination of yummy recipes and easy-to-find fresh and prepared foods. In this stunning book, you will find spreads for special occasions, holidays, breakfast and brunch, lunch and dinner, dessert, and drinks, including: Top Your Own Waffles Kid's Birthday Party Cocktail Party Holiday Cookie Decorating Christmas Eve Snacks New Year's Eve Snacks & Sweets Top Your Own Pizza Fill Your Own Chili Bowl Cookies, Cocktails & Milk The Big Game And much more! Once again, the BakerMama has innovated the world of entertaining, guaranteeing fun and memorable gatherings with your family and friends.