This is the definitive guide to the fruits of the world, featuring a comprehensive photographic identification guide to fruits, with information about the history, varieties and nutritional value. It includes all the well-known citrus fruits, berries and other fruits, such as apples, bananas, melons, peaches, figs and grapes, as well as exotic varieties such as babacoa, custard apples, sharon fruit and prickly pears, rambutans and snake fruit. With 500 photographs, this is the ideal reference book on identifying, preparing, preserving and cooking fruit. Tempting recipes include Hot Date Puddings with Toffee Sauce, French Apple Tart, and Date and Walnut Brownies. Nothing can beat a simple dessert of perfectly ripe juicy fruit, perhaps served with a dollop of cream, or with some good cheese. All fruits can be cooked and served on their own, or used to create a huge range of dishes, from pies and puddings to cakes, ice creams, mousses and featherlight souffles. In the first section of this book, there is an illustrated step-by-step guide to preparing, juicing, preserving and cooking fruit, and a guide to useful equipment. There is essential information about all the common, less well-known and exotic fruits and how and where the fruit is grown, where to buy and how to store and cook. With over 100 enticing recipes, this lovely book will provide a wealth of inspiration.

2020 James Beard Award Winner With recipes for gumbos and stews-plus okra pickles, tofu, marshmallow, paper, and more! "A love song long overdue. It is anything and everything you wanted to know about this hallmark ingredient."-Michael W. Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene Chris Smith's first encounter with okra was of the worst kind: slimy fried okra at a greasy-spoon diner. Despite that dismal introduction, Smith developed a fascination with okra, and as he researched the plant and began to experiment with it in his own kitchen, he discovered an amazing range of delicious ways to cook and eat it, along with ingenious and surprising ways to process the plant from tip-to-tail: pods, leaves, flowers, seeds, and stalks. Smith talked okra with chefs, food historians, university researchers, farmers, homesteaders, and gardeners. The summation of his experimentation and research comes together in The Whole Okra, a lighthearted but information-rich collection of okra history, lore, recipes, craft projects, growing advice, and more. The Whole Okra includes classic recipes such as fried okra pods as well as unexpected delights including okra seed pancakes and okra flower vodka. Some of the South's best-known chefs shared okra recipes with Smith: Okra Soup by culinary historian Michael Twitty, Limpin' Susan by chef BJ Dennis, Bhindi Masala by chef Meherwan Irani, and Okra Fries by chef Vivian Howard. Okra has practical uses beyond the edible, and Smith also researched the history of okra as a fiber crop for making paper and the uses of okra mucilage (slime) as a preservative, a hydrating face mask, and a primary ingredient in herbalist Katrina Blair's recipe for Okra Marshmallow Delight. The Whole Okra is foremost a foodie's book, but Smith also provides practical tips and techniques for home and market gardeners. He gives directions for saving seed for replanting, for a breeding project, or for a stockpile of seed for making okra oil, okra flour, okra tempeh, and more. Smith has grown over 75 varieties of okra, and he describes the nuanced differences in flavor, texture, and color; the best-tasting varieties; and his personal favorites. Smith's wry humor and seed-to-stem enthusiasm for his subject infuse every chapter with just the right mix of fabulous recipes and culinary tips, unique projects, and fun facts about this vagabond vegetable with enormous potential. "If you are an okra lover, this book is an affirmation, filled with interesting stories and great ideas for using pods, flowers, and more. If you are not yet an okra lover, Chris Smith's enthusiasm may well convert you."-Sandor Ellix Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation

Potato, a widely eaten and nutritious vegetable, comes in a variety of avatars. It can be baked, fried, boiled or more than often is consumed as an accompaniment to other vegetables. This book is a fabulous assortment of mouth-watering dishes made using Potato as the chief ingredient. A variety of cuisines with potato as its chief ingredient are included in this book with their varying and contrasting flavours, and textures. The book offers a whole new approach to cooking potatoes and explores the varying tastes which this humble vegetable holds.

Whether you drizzle it over salads and breads or use it in cooking, olive oil is a magical ingredient that enhances food, soothes sharp tastes, and provides an extra richness during or after cooking. This enticing book offers a selection of classic olive oil recipes, taken from the countries that have produced it for centuries, along with detailed information on the healthy benefits of olive oil.

*Editor's Choice on Best Products List of 35 Gardening Gifts for the Person in Your Life with the Greenest Thumb One intrepid cook's exploration of her urban terrain, with over 500 recipes for every season! "Marie Viljoen is the real deal. . . Forage, Harvest, Feast is a joy to read, an inspiration, and a culinary adventure." Amy Stewart, author of New York Times bestseller Wicked Plants In this groundbreaking collection, celebrated New York City forager, cook, kitchen gardener, and writer Marie Viljoen incorporates wild ingredients into everyday menus and special occasion fare. Motivated by a hunger for new flavors and working with thirty-six versatile wild plants some increasingly found in farmers markets she offers deliciously compelling recipes, including variations on: Cocktails Snacks & Appetizers Entrees Desserts Breads Preserves, Sauces and Syrups Ferments, spices, and salts From underexplored native flavors like bayberry and spicebush to accessible ecological threats like Japanese knotweed and mugwort, Viljoen presents hundreds of recipes unprecedented in scope. They range from simple quickweed griddle cakes with American burnweed butter to sophisticated dishes like a souffleed tomato roulade stuffed with garlic mustard, or scallops seared with sweet white clover, cattail pollen, and sweetfern butter. Viljoen makes unfamiliar ingredients familiar by treating each to a thorough culinary examination, allowing readers to grasp every plant's character and inflection. Forage, Harvest, Feast featuring hundreds of color photographs as well as cultivation tips for plants easily grown at home is destined to become a standard reference for any cook wanting to transform wildcrafted ingredients into exceptional dishes, spices, and drinks. Eating wild food, Viljoen reminds us, is a radical act of remembering and honoring our shared heritage. Led by a quest for exceptional flavor and ecologically sound harvesting, she tames the feral kitchen, making it recognizable and welcoming to regular cooks. "The photos are beautiful, and most of the recipes are simple enough that you don't need a culinary degree to follow them, but at the same time they ooze creativity. . . . It's not just a book of recipes, it's a celebration of local flavors. You can feel the love on every page. There are no other books like it an amazing source of inspiration and a must-have for anyone remotely interested in wild edibles." Pascal Baudar, author of The New Wildcrafted Cuisine

This is the definitive book about chocolate and coffee, with a classic compilation of delicious recipes. It begins by telling the story of the cocoa bean, and then contains over 200 of the most devilish chocolate recipes ever conceived, including Death by Chocolate, Mississippi Mud Pie and Black Forest Gateau. The second section traces the social and cultural impact of coffee through history, and features over 100 coffee desserts and cakes, including Tiramisu, Mocha Sponge Cake and Cappuccino Torte.With every recipe shown step by step, and with over 1300 photographs, this is the ultimate bible for all chocolate and coffee lovers.

Tofu is the perfect ingredient. Not only is it low in fat and high in protein - and thought to lower cholesterol - it is also incredibly versatile. This inspiring book opens with an introduction to tofu and the many tofu-related products available, plus techniques on preparing and cooking with tofu. The subtle flavour and soft texture of tofu means that it can be added to all kinds of dishes without clashing with other ingredients. From Tofu and Pepper Kebabs and Braised Tofu with Crab to Crispy Fried Tempeh and Tofu Berry Cheesecake, there is plenty of inspiration to help you to include tofu in your cooking, all illustrated with beautiful photography.

From veteran food writer, recipe developer, and creator of the James Beard Award-winning Jarry magazine comes an innovative approach to vegetarian cooking. What have I got to eat? It's a question we ask every time we open up the refrigerator or pantry door. It might be eggs, some cheese, and half a loaf of bread, or a box of wilting greens, garlic, and some sweet potatoes. Though these ingredients may not seem like much to make a delicious meal, recipe developer and author Lukas Volger knows it's all you need. In Start Simple he offers a radically new, uncomplicated, and creative approach to cooking that allows you to use what you already have on hand to make great meals you didn't think were possible. Magic can happen with just a few ingredients: sweet potatoes, tortillas, eggs, cabbage, hearty greens, beans, winter squash, mushrooms, tofu, summer squash, and cauliflower. Volger advises readers to stock up on these eleven building blocks instead of shopping for a single recipe. A protein (tofu, beans, eggs) is a foundation. A crunchy garnish (cabbage, greens) is a finishing touch. Once these structural components of a meal are established, home chefs can throw in their own variations and favorite flavors-mixing, matching, and adding ingredients to customize their dishes. While Start Simple is a vegetarian cookbook-none of the recipes include meat-Volger's approach transcends categories. His methods aren't about subscribing to a specific dietary regimen; they are about simply recognizing and embracing the way people cook and eat today. Creating weekly meal plans based on intricate recipes sounds good, but it can be difficult to execute. Having a well-stocked pantry paired with a choose-you-own adventure guide to creating simple yet inventive meals is more practical for your average home cook.

From ancient Greece to the Victorian era and into modern times oils have been used for an infinite variety of purposes. This book explores the seemingly endless applications of this wondrous substance, looking at its fascinating properties, the vast range of types available and its use as a valued ingredient in recipes, medicinal treatments, cleansers, beauty treatment and aromatherapy. It combines in-depth advice with easy-to-follow recipes and instructions.

'Mandy Aftel's latest work with Daniel Patterson is a masterpiece on the science of cooking from an olfactory and culinary perspective through the same lens. This book is a must for any chef or cook looking to find new inspirations and a deeper understanding of the way flavours work together.' Pratap Chahal (@thathungrychef), Flavour Bastard, Soho, London 'Am counting down the days till your book arrives!' Nigella Lawson Daniel Patterson, a chef, and Mandy Aftel, a perfumer, present a revolutionary new approach to creating delicious, original food. Aftel and Patterson are rock stars in their respective fields: Patterson has won two Michelin stars for his San Francisco restaurant Coi and numerous James Beard and other food awards, and his new path-breaking co-venture Loco'l is attracting national interest; Aftel has been profiled in the New York Times T Magazine and other publications and is constantly featured and quoted in magazines and blogs. In a world awash with cooking shows, food blogs and recipes, the art of flavour has been surprisingly neglected. The multibillion-dollar flavour industry practises its dark arts by manipulating synthetic ingredients, and home cooks are taught to wield the same blunt instruments: salt, acid, sugar, heat. But foods in their natural states are infinitely more nuanced than the laboratory can replicate - and offer far greater possibilities for deliciousness. Chef Daniel Patterson and natural perfumer Mandy Aftel are experts at orchestrating ingredients, and here they teach readers how to make the most of nature's palette. The Art of Flavour proceeds not by rote formula but via a series of mind-opening and palate-expanding tools and concepts: using a flavour 'compass' to find the way to transformative combinations of aromatic ingredients; pairing ingredients to make them 'bury' (control) one another and 'lock' (achieve an alchemy that transcends the sum of the parts); learning to deploy cooking methods for maximum effect; and the seven 'dials' that allow a cook to fine-tune a dish. With more than sixty recipes that allow the cook to grasp each concept and put it into practice, The Art of Flavour is food for the imagination that will help cooks at any level to become flavour virtuosos in their own right. From The Flavour Bible on, flavour has been a particular focus of recent interest, but no one has Patterson's and Aftel's unique perspective on it, their combined expertise, or their winning blend of ideas, information, recipes and cooking and perfuming lore. The Art of Flavour is a thinking person's cookbook that uses recipes to instil principles for creating delicious food at home, larded with fascinating information on the history and science of flavour that make it a great armchair read as well.

Think you'll never win at weeknight cooking? Think again. Your favorite ingredients are deliciously reimagined in Real Simple 's latest cookbook that shows you how to spin 35 family staples into hundreds of hassle-free dishes. Organized from apples to zucchini, Dinner Made Simple is filled with 350 easy, quick dishes-many ready in 30 minutes or less-to help you get out of your recipe rut. With 10 ideas for every ingredient, you'll never look at a box of spaghetti, a bunch of carrots, or a ball of pizza dough the same way again. With helpful advice on buying and storing ingredients, genius kitchen tips, nutritional information for every recipe, and a complete dessert section (yes!), Dinner Made Simple is your new go-to resource for creating inspiring dishes all week long.

"Maple Sugar" is a great souvenir and a perfect gift for maple lovers, as well as a fascinating read in an irresistible package. A special die-cut cover displays the grades of maple syrup; photographs capture the glory, past and present, of maple sugaring; and full-colour illustrations show readers how to identify the various kinds of maple trees from leaves, twigs, bark, fruit, and flowers. The book even includes more than 20 recipes for tempting, old fashioned treats like maple nut bread, pecan pie, maple egg-nog, baked beans, and maple-glazed ham and salmon.

This title includes a comprehensive guide to the citrus family and how to use these delicious fruits in your cooking. From lemons, limes and oranges to the less familiar kumquats, limequats, minneolas, Ugli fruit and pomelos, it comes with essential information on the taste, texture and appearance of different citrus fruits, and expert tips on buying and storing, preparation, serving and presentation. It comes with 70 step-by-step fresh and fruity recipes, illustrated in 200 fantastic colour photographs. The fabulously tangy recipes include soups and starters, side dishes and salads, main courses, cakes, pies, tarts and breads, and desserts. Citrus fruits can be used all year round and are enormously versatile. The book opens with a comprehensive reference section featuring all the varieties of this fruit family. You'll find all you need to know about taste and texture, preparation and nutrition, as well as advice on buying and storing. It then follows a superb collection of 70 step-by-step recipes, featuring the best of classic citrus dishes such as Duck with Orange Sauce, Key Lime Pie, and Lemon Sorbet. More unusual combinations such as Orange Candied Sweet Potatoes, Monkfish with Citrus Marinade, and Apple and Kumquat Sponge Puddings will instantly appeal. Citrus fruits are essential ingredients in every kitchen. Add zest to your cooking with this fantastic collection of tantalizing, tangy recipes.

Matthew Kenney's goal with his cooking schools is to bridge the gap between culinary art and ultimate nutrition. This cookbook does just that with recipes guiding you to prepare raw foods in a contemporary, artistic manner that embraces the latest techniques and the best ingredients while utilising a structured approach to raw food preparation.

The essential Jamie Oliver cookbook perfect for vegetarians, total foodies, or someone who just wants a bit more veg on their plate

JAMIE OLIVER IS BACK WITH OVER 100 BRILLIANTLY EASY, DELICIOUS & FLAVOUR-PACKED VEG RECIPES (American Measurements)

Includes ALL the recipes from Jamie's Channel 4 series MEAT FREE MEALS

Whether it's embracing a meat-free day or two each week, living a vegetarian lifestyle, or just wanting to try some brilliant new flavor combinations, this book ticks all the boxes.

Discover simple but inventive veg dishes including:

· ALLOTMENT COTTAGE PIE with root veg, porcini mushrooms, marmite & crispy rosemary
· CRISPY MOROCCAN CARROTS with orange & thyme syrup, tahini & harissa rippled yoghurt
· SPICED PARSNIP SOUP with silky poppadoms & funky chips
· WARM GRAPE AND RADICCHIO SALAD with toasted pine nuts, sticky balsamic & honey
· HASSELBACK AL FORNO with root veg galore, wilted spinach & lentils

With chapters on Soups & Sarnies, Brunch, Pies Parcels & Bakes, Curries & Stews, Salads, Burgers & Fritters, Pasta, Rice & Noodles, and Traybakes there's something tasty for every occasion.

Jamie's recipes will leave you feeling full, satisfied and happy - and not missing meat from your plate.