Handmade Gifts From The Kitchen is a delightful gift in itself, as well as a beautiful collection of culinary gift ideas for you to make and bake at home for friends and family.

Indulgent fudge, warming liqueurs, spicy chutneys, sweet and crumbly homemade biscuits … the list goes on. A jar of your favourite preserve or a box of homemade truffles is a delightful way to say thank you to someone special, or for Christmas or birthdays, or indeed for any celebration whatever time of the year. Full of love and originality, the recipes are a pleasure to create and wrap as well as to give. Each recipe has a guide for how long it takes to prepare and make, and the introduction to each offers ideas on how to use it or adapt it for any occasion.

There is a myriad of ideas for wrapping the gifts in a stunning and stylish way, so that every gift is unique.

A cookbook focused on different holiday celebrations – including recipes for Christmas, summer parties, seaside holiday favourites, family occasion meals, and Easter, Halloween and Heritage Day themes.

Jan Kohler is a self-taught cook whose passion for good food was strongly influenced during her childhood. Growing up, produce was home-grown, shopping was a social experience and time and effort was put into the preparation of the food. These things still resonate with her today and have inspired her “cook-from-scratch” approach.

Jan loves to share her love of food with others, often entertaining and striving to develop new recipes and ideas.

In a moment of madness, Costa Ayiotis, a former United Nations diplomat, quits the Joburg rat race and opens a Greek taverna in Hout Bay.

The local barflies and village idiots predict his demise in a notoriously fickle seasonal town. He is determined to prove them wrong.

In this refreshingly hilarious rollercoaster of a ride, Costa's fiery Greek temperament is tested by a constant stream of customers from all corners of the planet.

A book for anyone who ever yearned to escape from it all.

Organised geographically, this comprehensive cookbook takes fans on a magical journey from Privet Drive in Surrey to Hogwarts, New York City, Paris and beyond, featuring Great Hall feasts, the treats inspired by Kowalski's Bakery and much more. Learn to make traditional treats beloved at the British, American and French locations in the films as well as the favourite foods of wizards and Muggles alike, from Harry Potter and Hermione Granger to Newt Scamander, Queenie Goldstein and Jacob Kowalski.

Sprinkled with fascinating behind-the-scenes film facts and bursting with gorgeous photography, this cookbook offers step-by-step instructions on how to prepare more than 80 delicious recipes that can be enjoyed while watching the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films.

Recipes include:

- Dudley Dursley's Swirly Tail Bacon Cheddar Breadsticks
- Bill and Fleur's Wedding Chocolate Puffs
- WonderWitch Passion Juice Smoothie
- Flaming Phoenix Cocktails
- Goldstein Sisters' Hot Chocolate Mug Cakes
- And more!

From appetisers to main courses, and from drinks to desserts, Harry Potter: Official Wizarding World Cookbook is the ultimate guide to creating enchanting meals inspired by the magical Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films!

Learn how to greet others politely! This nonfiction book covers a variety of greetings and farewell gestures that students can use in everyday life. Perfect for young readers, this book also includes a short fiction piece related to the topic, a bonus activity, and other useful features. This 20-page full-color book uses pictures and words to teach students how to greet others. It also covers important life skills such as meeting new people and includes an extension activity for kindergarten. Perfect for the classroom, at-home learning, or homeschool to learn about polite communication, meeting new people, and friendly interactions.

This comprehensive guide in official partnership with the hit TV series Downton Abbey is a lavish celebration of the elegant institution of afternoon tea, filled with recipes, historical facts and etiquette guides. With over 150 stunning photographs featuring stills from across the series and right up to the latest film release, this collection of 70 delicious recipes will give you everything you need to take afternoon tea just like the Granthams do in the much-beloved series. With a foreword by Gareth Neame, executive producer of Downton Abbey, this book investigates the history of tea, covering its origins and varieties, the etiquette surrounding its consumption in English aristocratic life, and its presence in the series, both upstairs and downstairs. The book then turns to 70 recipes for delicious bakes, bites and assorted sweet and savoury delights to accompany a delightful afternoon tea, with sections on: Pastries, buns and biscuits - Whip up classics like the cream scone or chelsea buns, as well as enticing delicacies such as raspberry eclairs and chocolate florentines. Cakes, tarts and puddings - From colourful Battenburg cakes and lemon tarts to warming spicy dark gingerbread or steamed toffee pudding, these irresistable bakes will have something to suit every taste. Tea sandwiches and savoury bites - Enjoy mini pork pies and cornish pasties, or make carefully trimmed tea sandwiches to complete any spread. Preserves and spreads - Make aromatic strawberry-rhubarb jam, currant jelly or lemon curd from scratch to accompany your bakes. This carefully curated selection of recipes spans the world of Downton, from intimate afternoon tea taken in the drawing-room to glamorous tea parties in the garden. Full of photographs and quotes from Downton characters, with this book you can recreate the rich traditions and flavours of Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea time and time again.

"Wherever I travel, be it a different state, country, or continent, I always call Phil when I need to know where and what to eat. He's the food guru of the world." -Ray Romano The ultimate collection of must-have recipes, stories, and behind-the-scenes photos from the beloved Netflix show Somebody Feed Phil. Phil Rosenthal, host of the beloved Netflix series Somebody Feed Phil, really loves food and learning about global cultures, and he makes sure to bring that passion to every episode of the show. Whether he's traveling stateside to foodie-favorite cities such as San Francisco or New Orleans or around the world to locations like Saigon, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City, or Marrakesh, Rosenthal includes a healthy dose of humor to every episode-and now to this book. In Somebody Feed Phil the Book, Rosenthal presents never-before-heard stories from every episode of the first four seasons of the series, along with more than sixty of viewers' most requested recipes from acclaimed international chefs and local legends alike (including Rosenthal' s favorite sandwich finds from San Francisco to Tel Aviv), so you can replicate many of the dishes from the show right at home. There are also "scripts" from some of Rosenthal's video phone calls from the road with his family making this the ultimate companion guide for avid fans of the show as well as armchair travelers and adventurous at-home chefs.

The ultimate colour-by-colour flower reference guide - from New York's pre-eminent floral designers, Putnam and Putnam

Planning a wedding, a dinner, a birthday party, a romantic evening, holiday entertaining, or just arranging flowers for the pleasure of having them, more often than not your creative process begins with thinking about the colour of the flowers that you want. To help you find what you are looking for, Flower Colour Guide is the first reference book to organize flower types by colour, with an emphasis on seasonality and creative colour schemes - and the results are stunning in their sheer variety. What Pantone is to colour, Flower Colour Guide is to flowers.

Showcasing 400 flowers at their peak, with stunning photography taken by Putnam & Putnam in their Brooklyn studio, this guide includes an appendix featuring perforated pages, with tips on flower care, notes on how to prepare vessels and a list of suggested colour schemes. A great gift to give, or to have for oneself, the book speaks to the most seasoned flower enthusiasts as well as those just beginning to explore the possibilities of arranging flowers.

Michael and Darroch Putnam have built a reputation for romantic, dramatic floral arrangements and installations using colour as their guiding principle - here, they share their knowledge with readers worldwide: "This is the book we wished we had when we started doing flowers."