'Darina Allen is Ireland's Delia Smith and Mary Berry rolled into one' - The Times'She is without doubt one of the most important people working in the food world today' - Skye GyngellWe all know cooking from scratch is healthier for our waistlines and our wallets, but pressed for time and inspiration, most of us turn to the same meals again and again.
Michael and Celia Richardson and their son Jamie, born two years before while Michael was learning Mandarin Chinese in Hong Kong, lived in Peking from January 1972 to January 1974.
77 timeless tales from up and down the length of Great Britain - Wales, Scotland, Kernow, England and the Isles - have been retold for the 21st century by curious storyteller Brother Bernard, with a tourist guide to the real location of each folktale included.
The Food Almanac II is an annual, seasonal collection of recipes and stories celebrating the joy of food - a dazzling, diverse mix of memoir, history, short stories and poems alongside recipes, cooking tips, menus and reading lists.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS 2021The Food Almanac is a seasonal collection of recipes and stories celebrating the joy of food - a dazzling, diverse mix of memoir, history, short stories and poems alongside recipes, cooking tips, menus and reading lists.
Remarkable Road Trips collects over 50 of the most spectacular, dangerous, and thoroughly memorable road trips from around the worldEntries range from the shortest - the Guoilang Tunnel hewn into the side of a cliff face in China, to the longest, the Dempster Highway in desolate stretches of Arctic Canada.
Fully revised and updated edition of the classic, stunningly illustrated guide to the cream of Britain's historic country houses cared for by the National Trust, encompassing both interior and exterior design.
BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEARTen years after breaking a world record for cycling around the world, award-winning travel writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels on the roads of Israel and occupied Palestine.
Vital, vivid and engaging, this cluster of ancient kingdoms is home Gothic cathedrals, stunning mountain ranges, charming seaside towns and buzzing cities.
A vast city, Sao Paulo is the intellectual capital of Brazil, and nowhere in the country is better for concerts, clubs, theatre, ballet, classical music, all-round nightlife, restaurants and beautifully designed hotels.
Costa Rica is undeniably a nature-lovers' paradise: home to moss-draped cloud forest, rainforest wilderness, remote turtle-nesting beaches and volcanic peaks.
India strikes its visitor with a sensory, intellectual, spiritual and philosophical assualt that's unmatched by any other place on earth: this subcontinent's sheer diversity is staggering.
These remote islands, stretching out into the Atlantic Ocean like stepping stones in a vast lake, lie at the extremity of the British Isles and the very edge of our imagination.
When the rain stops falling and the mist clears there is no more beautiful place on Earth than Scotland's northernmost archipelagos, the Orkney and Shetland Islands.
Go for an early morning walk along the Corniche - Beirut's seaside promenade - and watch as the Mediterranean Sea laps against the rocks while the summits of Mount Lebanon dominate the horizon to the east.
Granada is defined by the fountained courtyards, sensuous archways and secluded galleries of the Alhambra, and looked over by the spectacular Sierra Nevada.