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2023
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Have you ever wondered why eating cheese can sometimes feel like a cuddle? Or how a good curry can be just what we need after a tough day? Oh, and just what is it about butter that makes us feel so at ease? The foods we turn to behind closed doors are deeply personal, steeped in nostalgia and topped with a healthy dollop of guilty pleasure. 'Comfort Eating' finds Grace Dent inviting readers to her kitchen table to discover what makes the things we...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2017
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Why do we consume 35% more food when eating with one other person and 75% more when dining with three? Why are 27% of all drinks bought on aeroplanes tomato juice? How are chefs and companies planning to transform our dining experiences and what can we learn from their cutting-edge insights to make memorable meals at home? These are just some of the ingredients of 'Gastrophysics', in which the pioneering Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our...
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Orion Books
Pub. Date
2016
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Introducing your baby to food is one of the many great joys of parenthood. When it comes to weaning children with food allergies it can be more problematic. With over 100 delicious, wholesome recipes covering your baby's very first tastes up to mini meals, 'The Allergy-Free Baby & Toddler Cookbook' works with whichever weaning method you use. Offering meal plans and a host of practical advice and nutritional expertise it will help lay the foundations...
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BBC Books
Pub. Date
2022
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Food shapes our present, our past and our future, and it opens a window on humanity's many cultures and histories. It has been a weapon, an art form, a tool of revolution, an engine of social change, but also a bringer of pure happiness and companionship. In the first official book from BBC Radio 4's hit series 'The Food Programme,' Alex Renton tells the stories of 13 key ingredients such as spices, oil, cocoa and rice, exploring their history, evolution...
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2019
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JEANETTE WINTERSON ?How to eat, how to cook, how to write: I want two copies of this book, one to reference in the kitchen and one to read in bed? Yotam Ottolenghi When Nigella Lawson?s first book, How to Eat, was published in 1998, two things were immediately clear: that this fresh and fiercely intelligent voice would revolutionise cookery writing, and that How to Eat was an instant classic of the genre. Here was a versatile...
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Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2020
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We are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn't eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. Yet the more we are told about nutrition, the less we seem to understand. Through his pioneering scientific research, Tim Spector has been shocked to discover how little good evidence there is for many of our most deep-rooted ideas about food. In a series of short, myth-busting chapters, Spoon-Fed reveals why almost everything...
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We are all bombarded with advice about what we should and shouldn't eat, and new scientific discoveries are announced every day. Yet the more we are told about nutrition, the less we seem to understand. Through his pioneering scientific research, Tim Spector has been shocked to discover how little good evidence there is for many of our most deep-rooted ideas about food. In a series of short, myth-busting chapters, 'Spoon-Fed' reveals why almost everything...
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Shambhala
Pub. Date
2017
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Food. It should be one of life?s great pleasures, yet many of us have such a conflicted relationship with it that we miss out on that most basic of satisfactions. But it is possible-and not really all that difficult--to reclaim the joy of eating, according to Dr. Jan Bays, and mindfulness is the key. Her approach involves bringing one's full attention to the process of eating-to all the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during...
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Quadrille
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[2020]
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This is James in his comfort zone, cooking the food he loves best. This irresistible collection of recipes ranges from fancy dinners to impress friends, to those times when you just need to make a satisfying lunch for two. The chapters reflect this and are divided into Little Lunches, Family Favourites, Weekends, Spice Suppers, Food with Friends, Summer Nights, Sunday Night Bites, Sweet Treats and Posh Puds. Much-loved for his trademark wholesome,...
14) Delicious!
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Picture Corgi
Pub. Date
2007
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There are no ripe pumpkins so three animal friends have to make soup with something else.
15) Picnic Planet
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Maverick Arts Pub
Pub. Date
2019
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Stacey and her friends have their food stolen by alien rabbits when they go out for the day on Picnic Planet.
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Without Britain, none of the world's favourite wines would exist. Neither would champagne, port, rum or whisky. Not even beer. How did one small nation come to exert such a lasting influence on the world of booze? 'Empire of Booze' is a loose history of Britain, cleverly and humorously told through its contributions to alcohol, charting the rise of British power from its small corner of Europe to global pre-eminence. Each chapter features a historical...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
1999
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This is the most wide-ranging coverage ever of foods and food products and how to use them. It includes entries on national and regional cuisines, preparation and preservation, food science and diet as well as food in culture and religion.