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  • The Baker IDI Blood Pressure Diet and Lifestyle Plan
    In this comprehensive guide, the internationally renowned Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute tells you everything you need to know about high blood pressure—including what causes it, complications, medication, and strategies for reducing it. In addition, there are more than 90 easy, delicious recipes to get you on the road to reducing your blood pressure. The Baker IDI Blood Pressure...
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  • Seoul Food
    Embark on a culinary adventure through the rich and flavoursome world of Korean cuisine as author Haebin Sudo recreates 60 carefully selected dishes for her first cookery book. Seoul Food is full of delicious dishes that showcase authentic Korean meals, both for everyday and for special dinner parties. From traditional family feasts and special occasion banquets to street food, fusion...
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  • Rebel Girls Make Desserts
    An empowering cookbook encouraging creativity around food, with kid-friendly tips, tricks, and stories. With 100 kid-tested recipes, Rebel Girls Make Desserts empowers beginner bakers and young Rebel chefs-in-training to take charge in the kitchen. Ever wanted to whip up a tasty dessert with your family for an evening meal? Struggled to find simple sweets that your kids could make on...
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  • Kawaii Café Bento
    Create your own quick, easy, and irresistibly cute bento box meals! Kawaii Café Bento gives you over 50 healthy, delicious options, beautifully illustrated in a fun anime style. This inventive book brings the art of Japanese bento boxes to life with a playful twist, perfect for anyone looking to save money and enjoy a balanced, satisfying meal each day-with an extra touch...
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  • Invisible
    What would it be like to live as a quiet, intensely introverted recluse, hermit, and vegan in a world that likes to party loudly and excessively? What are some of the extraordinary lengths introverts will go to in order to hide, literally, from the rest of the world? What, indeed, is an introvert, or a recluse, and are we perhaps...
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  • India In A Bowl
    One bowl meals are the answer to quick, simple meals that are well thought out, balanced and filling. Filled with grains, noodles, rice or millets, vegetables and protein, they serve as the perfect weeknight meal that is complete, can be made in individual portions, make good use of leftovers and are extremely versatile. Bowl meals give you the flexibility to...
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  • How to Hangover
    A funny infographic survival guide. For fans of The Hungover Cookbook, The Ladybird Book of the Hangover and Five Give-Up the Booze. Headache? Confusion? Waves of nausea and regret? Luckily, thanks to this handy book, a hangover no longer has to mean a ruined day. Use infographics and flowcharts to diagnose which hangover type you are suffering from and find...
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  • How to be French
    What does it mean to be French? Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? A flâneur down laneways steeped in history? Knowing just how to dress so you always look effortlessly chic? How to be French is a celebration of the French lifestyle – an education in drinking to savour the moment,...
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  • Homegrown Handgathered
    Growing your own food is good for you and the planet. Backed by scientific research, Indigenous knowledge, and the authors' years of firsthand experience, Homegrown Handgathered offers field-tested techniques for beginners and experts alike to thrive off the bounty of the land with confidence. This complete manual for organic food production will show you how to select a site, plan...
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  • Healthy Liver
    Your liver is one of the most important organs in your body, and its role in your general wellbeing cannot be overlooked. A healthy liver performs an amazing 500 different functions, from breaking down fat to extracting vitamins, storing energy, and fighting infection. Yet, due to our modern lifestyles and environment, our livers can really take a hit. The time...
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  • Happy Healthy You: Start your healthy diet and weight-loss journey right here, right now with more than 100 nutritious recipes & wellness tips
    Take back control of your health and find your balance again, for a happier, healthier YOU. Join the thousands of women living their best life thanks to the Happy Healthy You philosophy. This book will help you understand your body, regenerate your health through diet and lifestyle, and change your life for the better. It features the comprehensive Happy Healthy...
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  • Entertaining with Charm
    Food and lifestyle blogger Eden Passante shares her signature style and party ethos with a vibrant array of fresh recipes, menu ideas, tabletop designs, holiday flair, and more for adding delicious charm to spark every and any occasion.Entertaining with Charm will guide you in hosting beautiful gatherings with delicious dishes and simple style. Organized by category, the book is filled...
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  • Budget Food
    Over 180 TRIPLE-TESTED recipes - and a photo for every recipe! Eating well on a budget is easy with an imaginative range of recipes for soups, pasta dishes, noodle and rice options, meat, fish and poultry, vegetarian meals and desserts. The recipes are straightforward, use readily available ingredients and are ideal for our busy lifestyles. Build a kitchen library with...
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  • A Sweet Floral Life
    Learn how to create exquisite, lifelike sugar flowers and arrange them with fresh blooms in the floral arrangements of your dreams, regardless of season or availability. A Sweet Floral Life is pure magic. - Ariella Chezar, author of The Flower Workshop and Seasonal Flower Arranging Rising Instagram star Natasja Sadi's floral arrangements have a sumptuous, old-world look straight out of...
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  • A Floral Feast
    Flowers have probably been used in cooking for as long as people have been preparing and flavouring food. In China, cooks were experimenting with chive flowers in 3000 BC and the Romans frequently added blooms to their dishes. Today, flowers are often seen as an exotic extra employed only by professional chefs. While we are all taking a greater interest...
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  • 5-Ingredient Mediterranean Cookbook
    Discover just how easy it is to cook and enjoy the world's healthiest diet—without spending hours shopping for ingredients or cooking in your kitchen. Fad diets come and go, but the Mediterranean Diet is the diet that doctors and nutritionists consistently recommend, year after year. It has, after all, ranked #1 for eight years straight in the US News and...
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  • The Vegan Kitchen
    The Vegan Kitchen offers a delicious tour of plant-based cooking across countries and cultures. This stylish volume collects 75 of the best recipes from Jean-Christian Jury's classic compendium Vegan: The Cookbook, highlighting fresh, tasty dishes enjoyed in every corner of the globe. Here, home cooks will discover creative techniques for transforming vegetables, grains, beans, legumes, and other vegan staple ingredients...
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  • The Little Book of Dumplings
    Embark on a delicious journey with this fun, beginner-friendly guide to delicious dumplings from around the globe. Explore trendy flavours, unique fillings, and cultural twists that will make every bite an adventure! The whole world loves a dumpling. These little parcels of goodness are found in cuisines across the globe. Whether it’s a slurpy Chinese soup dumpling, a spicy Indian...
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  • The Greek Kitchen
    The Greek Kitchen offers a treasure trove of 75 authentic, delicious, home-cooking recipes. Featuring the region's hallmark ingredients—olive oil, bread, wine, figs, grapes, and cheese—the dishes reveal how Greece's rich cultural history of land and sea created the original Mediterranean cuisine. This stylish volume highlights the best and most beloved recipes from Greece: The Cookbook, by the grand dame of...
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  • The 30-Day Inflammatory Reset
    TOP 10 USA TODAY BESTSELLER A practical, science-based road map to identify and eliminate hidden inflammation—the root cause of chronic health issues—through diet, lifestyle changes, and environmental modifications that will help you reclaim your energy, clarity, and vitality in just thirty days.From diabetes to cardiovascular issues, infertility to Alzheimer’s disease, chronic inflammation is an undiagnosed epidemic behind countless conditions. In...
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  • Oteque
    Globally acclaimed chef Alberto Landgraf travels widely, demonstrating his uniquely creative, innovative, and intellectual approach to modern Brazilian cuisine. Located in Botafogo, one of the trendiest neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro, Oteque is widely considered one the greatest restaurants in Latin America. In this book, Landgraf describes his creative approach in his five guiding principles, which form five chapters, together...
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  • More Than Sweet
    Master the art of adding unexpected flavor and take your desserts to the next level. Over 80 approachable and elevated recipes for cookies, cakes, frozen desserts, custards, tarts, and more.Copenhagen-based pastry chef and author of the hit Substack, More than Sweet, Marie Frank invites you to break down the boundaries between sweet and savory with confidence—to create desserts that celebrate flavors both new...
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  • Italian Cookies
    Italian Cookies: Authentic Recipes and Sweet Stories from Every Region is a beautiful, comprehensive guided tour of Italy’s regions by cookies and cookie stories. With recipes steeped in history and tradition, the book capitalizes on two major continuing food trends: our love of everything cookies and our love of everything Italian. From Lombardi’s super-soft Amaretti de Gallarate to Tuscany’s crunchy...
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  • How to BBQ
    Are you getting the most from your barbecue? BBQ expert Genevieve Taylor teaches you everything you ever need to know about cooking over fire, with 100 innovative recipes.Genevieve has spent the last two decades teaching and writing about live-fire cooking – in How to BBQ she shares all her secrets for creating the greatest outdoor food imaginable. From building your...
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  • Full Belly
    100 easy, seasonal recipes from the beloved, third generation organic family farm located in the verdant Capay Valley in California. Full Belly Farm's recipes follow seasonal rhythms, highlighting fresh, organic ingredients. Dishes like Corn and Summer Squash Pizza and Vibrant Little Gem Salad embody the warmth and simplicity of California cooking. Learn to minimize food waste with recipes for Late...
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  • Beach Cocktails
    Allyson Reedy’s Beach Cocktails: Pours, Drinks, Sips, and Bites is a collection of 75 recipes for classic tiki drinks, frozen cocktails, tropical mocktails, and a bonus chapter of nibbles. The kinds of umbrella-adorned drinks that scream the vacation-in-a-glass mindset we could all use a little more of. You’ll find recipes for beach classics like mai tais, margaritas, rum punch, and...
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  • A Guide to Drinking in Venice
    A Guide to Drinking in Venice is a visually stunning hardback that uncovers the fascinating history of drinking in one of the world’s most iconic destinations.Since its foundation in the year 421 AD, Venice has perfected the art of living well. Its merchants brought back seductive wines, explorers wrote of invigorating drinks, and visitors added their own traditions. All the...
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  • Shadows in the Vineyard
    When Maximilian Potter went to Burgundy to report for Vanity Fair on a crime that could have destroyed the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti—the tiny, storied vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world—he soon found a story that was much larger, and more thrilling, than he had originally imagined. In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed...
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  • Mrs Sidhu’s ‘Dead and Scone’
    The debut cosy culinary crime thriller from Suk Pannu, creator of BBC Radio 4’s Mrs Sidhu Investigates and writer for Goodness, Gracious, Me and The Kumars at No. 42. Shortlisted for the 2024 McDermid Award. ‘Stuffed with warmth and wicked, cross-cultural observations, Dead and Scone is a dollop of cosy crime goodness’ – Vaseem Khan, author of The Malabar House...
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  • Accidentally on Purpose
    TIME's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 | New York Post's 30 Best Books for Spring | Amazon's Best Books of the Month | BookRiot's Best Books of April | Queerty's Spring 2025 LGBTQ+ Books | Town & Country's Must-Read Books of Spring 2025 A tender, clear-eyed memoir, Accidentally on Purpose charts a journey full of purpose, belonging, and real love—a...
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  • You Had Me at Pet-Nat
    It was Rachel Signer's dream to be that girl: the one smoking hand-rolled cigarettes out the windows of her 19th-century Parisian studio apartment, wearing second-hand Isabel Marant jeans and sipping a glass of Beaujolais redolent of crushed roses with a touch of horse mane. Instead, she was an under-appreciated freelance journalist and waitress in New York City, frustrated at always...
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  • The World Atlas of Honey
    "A perfect entry point for jumping into all things apiary."―Saveur Showcases the wonderful world of honey from hive to jar. A beautifully illustrated global survey of the flavour of honey, The World Atlas of Honey includes: Profiles of more than 80 countries and their botanical sources of honey The global history of honey production, from the earliest beekeepers to today's...
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  • The Wine Runner
    With his sixtieth birthday looming, Colin Renton decides that it's time to escape office life and focus on achieving some of his unfulfilled goals. He embarks on a year-long adventure that takes him from the busy streets of Edinburgh to the traffic-free roads, sodden fields, and dusty paths of Europe's winemaking regions. He laces up his running shoes and joins...
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  • The Wandering Vine
    I could and would forgo any other liquid forever as long as I might drink one humble wine with my daily bread – MFK Fisher England is a nation of wine lovers and wine drinkers – but how much do we know about the wine we drink, how it got here and where it came from? What are the stories...
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  • Not For Tourists Guide to New York City: The Cocktail Companion
    The Quintessential Guide to Imbibing in New York City New York is quite possibly the easiest city for cocktail aficionados to be lured into tourist traps for drinks. If you're a visitor, chances are you've got tickets to Hamilton and are looking for a good pre- or post-musical drink. Most of your choices in the Theatre District's immediate vicinity are...
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  • Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy's Culinary Capital
    I simply want to live in the place with the best food in the world. This dream led Eric Dregni to Italy, first to Milan and eventually to a small, fog-covered town to the north: Modena, the birthplace of balsamic vinegar, Ferrari, and Luciano Pavarotti. Never Trust a Thin Cook is a classic American abroad tale, brimming with adventures both...
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  • Moon Southern Italy
    From the pastel rooftops of Positano to the soaring peak of Mount Etna, immerse yourself in la dolce vita with Moon Southern Italy. Inside you'll find: Flexible itineraries for exploring the best of Southern Italy, including Sicily, Puglia, Naples, the Amalfi Coast, and more, that can be combined for a longer trip. Must-see highlights and unique experiences for any season:...
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  • Made in California, Volume 2
    Beloved food historian and chef George Geary is back with even more remarkable stories of the countless international chains that started in the Golden State. Ruby's Diner. Panda Express. Yogurtland. Wetzel's Pretzels. The Cheesecake Factory. California Pizza Kitchen. These and many more iconic American culinary establishments have their roots in California. Focusing on the years 1951 to 2010, the second...
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  • Godforsaken Grapes
    There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from altesse to zierfandler—but 80 percent of the wine we drink is made from only 20 grapes. In Godforsaken Grapes, Jason Wilson looks at how that came to be and embarks on a journey to discover what we miss. Stemming from his own growing obsession, Wilson moves far beyond...
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  • Five Quarters
    This is a black and white reissue edition of Five Quarters, previously published as a full-colour cookbook in 2015. This edition contains no photography. WINNER of the Andre Simon Food Book Award in 2015. 'This is the most wonderful cookbook, especially - though not exclusively - if you like really reading cookbooks, possibly in bed. Rachel Roddy is a marvellous...
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  • Eat Like a Local NEW YORK
    Food-focused travel guides for the world’s most exciting cities Eat Like a Local NEW YORK is a food tour in your pocket, featuring more than 100 of the best restaurants, cafes, bars, and markets recommended by a team of in-the-know New Yorkers. You’ll also find insights into the city’s idiosyncratic food culture, along with a handful of iconic recipes to...
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  • Due North
    This is award-winning chef James Viles' photographic journal of his road trip from Tassie to the Top End, from Flinders Island in the Tasman Sea to the Gulf of Carpentaria. His focus is real food, where it comes from, how it's grown, tended and harvested and how it sometimes flourishes in the most hostile and breathtakingly beautiful parts of Australia....
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  • A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France
    Charles de Gaulle famously said it was impossible to govern a country with 246 different cheeses. And perhaps he was right. Every French cheese carries an essence of the place where it's made - its history, identity and landscape. Sometimes that's a physical thing, as the hard texture of Comté echoes its mountainous home in the Jura. Other times it's...
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  • Successful Management in Foodservice Operations
    Comprehensive resource covering key ‘need-to-know’ aspects of how to run a food service operation, with unique perspective from restaurant managers. Successful Management in Foodservice Operations is a single volume book addressing the overall operation of a successful food service business, including planning for success, ensuring excellence in production and service, and generating optimal levels of operating profits. The purpose of...
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  • Measure with Your Heart
    Measure with Your Heart offers 100 free-spirited, comforting recipes for Southern-style dishes made with love by the social media icon behind LilyLouTay. New York Times Bestseller: 100 free-spirited, comforting recipes for Southern-style dishes made with love from the social media icon behind LilyLouTay. Hannah Taylor is a culinary creator from Georgia, known for her Southern charm, down-to-earth personality, and carefree...
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  • Simple Southern Slow Cooker Meals
    Low Effort, Big Flavor When life gets hectic and you have hungry mouths to feed, this collection of easy slow cooker recipes will leave you with one less dish to clean and a home filled with the irresistible aromas of Southern cooking. Hannah Turton gained a dedicated following online for her "resting chef face" while begrudgingly feeding her family day...
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  • PlantAsia
    Cooks across Asia have been making plant-based meals for centuries—and for just as long, they’ve been evolving new methods to make them taste deeply, richly satisfying. PlantAsia carries on that tradition of innovation, drawing on traditional techniques to challenge and expand what you imagine when you think of modern vegetarian cooking. Technique-based chapters showcase recipes from more than fifteen countries,...
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  • Healthy in One
    Craveable high-protein, low-calorie meals - all cooked in one pot, pan or roasting tin. Healthy in One is packed with filling and delicious mealtime favourites you'll love. From Smash Breakfast Tacos to Gochujang Salmon Tray Bake and from Marry Me Chicken Pie to Hoi Sin Pork Noodles: this incredible food is made using only one pan, pot or tray, making...
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  • Everything Is Better with Puff Pastry
    Turn your kitchen into a French bakery with Izabella Jakubec's collection of incredible puff pastry bakes. Renowned in the culinary world for her viral recipes, her new series of fantastic baking recipes, each with a flaky, buttery crust, is sure to satisfy every type of craving. In addition to featuring her simple, signature recipe on homemade puff, readers will have...
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  • Knots
    Knots offers a clear introduction to the world of knots, ranging from the practical to the decorative. This guide includes illustrated step-by-step instructions for mastering over 50 knots. Whether you're a sailor, mountaineer, camper, or just someone interested in the art of knot-tying, this book provides you with the essential techniques. From the fundamental to the elaborate, Knots serves as...
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  • Frostgrave: Advanced Spellcraft
    Expand your spellbook with Advanced Spellcraft, featuring new options for wizards and a ten-scenario competitive campaign. While today's wizards are not as gifted as those who ruled Felstad, the recent discovery of the fabled Bibliosepulchre promises to change all that. It was in this great library-crypt that ancient librarians were interred, each clutching a rare grimoire. Who knows what strange...
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  • Bolt Action: Armies of Great Britain: Third Edition
    A detailed guide to the British forces in Bolt Action: Third Edition, containing updated special rules, unit entries, and force selection guides. Armed with this supplement for Bolt Action: Third Edition, you have everything you need to command the British Army on the tabletop, whether you’re fighting the earliest battles of the British Expeditionary Force in France, the desert campaigns...
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  • Matcha
    Discover the rich history and modern allure of matcha, the vibrant green powder beloved worldwide. From its ancient origins in Japanese tea ceremonies to its rise as a wellness superfood, this book explores matcha's profound health benefits, cultural significance, and creative uses in food and drink. Featuring inspiring recipes, tips on the best matcha cafes, and insights into its celebrity...
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  • 20-minute Air Fryer
    Eating low-calorie has never tasted this good. "The Air Fryer Queen" - Nathan Anthony, Bored of Lunch Fast, flavoursome, high-protein, low-calorie recipes from the Air Fryer Queen and instant Sunday Times bestseller, Christina Kynigos. Discover 80 fuss-free, mouthwatering meals created in the air fryer and ready in 20 minutes - this is fast, satisfying food that will keep you fuller...
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  • Family Food
    Fast, fresh, family-friendly food - from lunchbox fillers to easy weeknight meals - from the creator of Wholesome by Sarah. When it comes to fast, fresh, family-friendly food, millions of home cooks look to Sarah Pound for inspiration. As the brains behind the online hub Wholesome by Sarah and the bestselling cookbook of the same name, Sarah understands the importance...
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  • What We Eat
    Ketchup seems iconically American, but the word comes from a Southeast Asian anchovy sauce, and today it is made largely from Chinese tomato paste. Japan's beloved ramen arose from the meeting of Chinese noodles and American wheat flour before attaining worldwide popularity in both gourmet and convenience-food forms. The baguette is mythologized as a product of the French Revolution, but...
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  • Victorian Christmas
    Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, a descendant of Charles Dickens, reveals the fascinating tale of Christmas traditions during Queen Victoria's reign. In 1843, while Dickens was inventing the Christmas ghost story, a London civil servant commissioned the first Christmas card, and Windsor Castle displayed artificial Christmas trees and served turkeys for Christmas dinner. During the next five years, the first recipe for...
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  • The World of Sugar
    The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic. For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose in our diets, and extracting it from plants takes hard work and ingenuity. Granulated sugar was...
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  • The World of Sugar
    "An extraordinary achievement." -David Edgerton, Literary Review "A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry have shaped the world in which we live." -Gary Taubes, author of The Case Against Sugar For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find...
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  • The Kingdom of Rye
    Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavours of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise, engaging, and gorgeously crafted story of Russian cuisine and culture. This story demonstrates how national identity is revealed through...
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  • The Kingdom of Rye
    Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavours of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise, engaging, and gorgeously crafted story of Russian cuisine and culture. This story demonstrates how national identity is revealed through...
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  • Spoiled
    Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the population is lactose-intolerant? Why are gigantic new dairy farms permitted to deplete the sparse water resources of desert ecosystems? Why do thousands of U.S. dairy farmers every year give up after struggling to recoup production costs against...
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  • Spoiled
    Why is cows' milk, which few nonwhite people can digest, promoted as a science-backed dietary necessity in countries where the majority of the population is lactose-intolerant? Why are gigantic new dairy farms permitted to deplete the sparse water resources of desert ecosystems? Why do thousands of U.S. dairy farmers every year give up after struggling to recoup production costs against...
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  • On Eating Meat
    Compelling, illuminating and often confronting, On Eating Meat is a brilliant blend of a gastronome's passion with forensic research into the sources of the meat we eat. Matthew Evans brings his unflinching honesty—and a farmer's hands-on experience—to the question of how to be an ethical carnivore. — Hugh Mackay Intellectually thrilling—a book that challenges both vegans and carnivores in the...
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  • How to Drink
    A spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet Vincent Obsopoeus (ca. 1498-1539) thought so. In the winelands of sixteenth-century Germany, he witnessed the birth of a poisonous new culture of bingeing, hazing, peer pressure, and competitive...
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  • Consider the Turkey
    Why this holiday season is a great time to rethink the traditional turkey feast A turkey is the centrepiece of countless Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. Yet most of us know almost nothing about today's specially bred, commercially produced birds. In this brief book, bestselling author Peter Singer tells their story and, unfortunately, it's not a happy one. Along the way,...
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  • Cannabis
    An international cultural history of the multifunctional plant. Cannabis explores the historical, pharmacological, and cultural significance of the controversial plant. Beginning with its origins as a food source in Southeast Asia, Borougerdi describes the global evolution of cannabis over the centuries, with a particular focus on its spread across the Atlantic and its modern renaissance in cuisine. The book also...
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  • Zucchini Love
    Grate, slice, chop, spiralize, pickle, and transform a bumper crop of zukes into delicious dishes to share all season long. Sweet to savoury, breakfast to dinner, Zucchini Love proves how versatile this summer favourite can be! Both an easy-to-grow beginner crop for the newbie gardener and a popular offering at supermarkets and farmers markets alike, zucchinis take centre stage in...
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  • Zoe's Ghana Kitchen
    "I believe we are on the cusp of an African food revolution. There is a longing to try something that is actually new, not just re-spun, and African cuisines are filling that gap. It's the last continent of relatively unexplored food in the mainstream domain. For too long Africans have kept this incredible food a greedy secret." - Zoe Adjonyoh...
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  • Zen and Tonic
    Green drinks gone boozy! Create your own delicious cocktails using ingredients you can find in your own backyard, windowsill, or local farmer's market. Learn to make your own simple syrups and infusions with immune-boosting fruits, herbs, and veggies that will leave you feeling refreshed and energised. Lavishly illustrated with full-colour photographs and offering over 100 fun, simple, and delicious cocktail...
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  • Zao Fan: Breakfast of China
    Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book Award 2025 Let Michael Zee, creator of the popular SymmetryBreakfast account, be your knowledgeable guide to breakfast in China. Contains over 40 recipes with QR codes that allow you to watch how the dishes are made in China. Breakfast in China is an important affair. At dawn, the streets come alive with...
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  • Zaika
    As featured on The Observer '20 Best Food Books of 2019' 'Veggies like you've never seen them before - Romy is a genius.' – Jamie Oliver 'Romy cooks with complete heart and joy - her recipes are full of flavour, comfort and story. Everyone who loves vegetables will love this.' – Melissa Hemsley _________ Delicious vegan recipes celebrating the zaika...
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  • Yummy Kawaii Bento
    Packing school lunches for fussy children can be a chore. Parents are bored of making the same old soggy sandwiches every day, and your picky eaters don't even show any appreciation when they return their lunchboxes with uneaten veggies and scrappy bits. What if you could entice your children to eat balanced lunches every day? Even better: how do you...
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  • Your Turn!
    Whether you are a novice or experienced pro, this easy-to-follow guide to designing board games is for you! In Your Turn! The Guide to Great Tabletop Game Design, veteran game designer Scott Rogers—creator of tabletop games including Rayguns and Rocketships, Pantone the Game, and ALIEN: Fate of the Nostromo—delivers a practical walkthrough to help YOU create over a half-dozen game...
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  • Your Super Life
    With a foreword by Dr. William Li, New York Times bestselling author of Eat to Beat Disease From the founders of the popular superfood brand, Your Super, comes a beautiful cookbook designed to supercharge health and healing with a customisable plant-based diet and 100+ delicious recipes. After his surprise cancer diagnosis at twenty-four, Michael Kuech radically shifted his diet. Realising...
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  • Your Jungle Guide to Rook Endings
    "To learn and to play endgames well, the chess player must love endgames." - Lev Psakhis. Different kinds of endgames have specific characteristics and rules. Every serious player must know many typical positions and main principles of all types of endings. While that knowledge is crucial during the game, it is not enough to become a good player just yet....
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  • Your Chess Jungle Guide to 1.d4! - Volume 1A - Aggressive Enterprise - QG Accepted and Minors
    Grandmasters Kotronias and Ivanov are renowned as leading theoreticians and chess trainers. They offer a unique and world-class repertoire based on 1.d4! They advocate an ambitious approach for White, with the aim to fight for an advantage in any position. This is their first joint effort; they tackle the ever-popular Queen's Gambit Accepted and their sidelines in Volume 1A and...
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  • Your Body In Balance
    This nationally bestselling book explains the shocking new science of how hormones are wreaking havoc on the body, and the delicious solution that improves health, reduces pain, and even helps to shed weight. Hidden in everyday foods are the causes of a surprising range of health problems: infertility, menstrual cramps, weight gain, hair loss, breast and prostate cancer, hot flushes,...
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  • Yogurt & Whey
    As founder of the much-loved The White Moustache Yogurt company, Homa Dashtaki employs the same traditionally Iranian methods of making yogurt that her family has used for generations in her kitchen today. Her passion culminates in inspiring the use of a new ingredient: whey, the liquid gold extracted from straining homemade yogurt. Across 100 recipes, ranging from ancient see-rogh to...
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  • Yes Way Rosé Mini Kit
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Cooking & Food

Welcome to our Cooking & Food section, where culinary adventures begin! Whether you're a seasoned chef, a home cook, or just starting to explore the joys of the kitchen, this collection has something for everyone who loves good food.

Explore a wide range of cookbooks that feature everything from quick weeknight dinners and comforting classics to gourmet dishes and international cuisines. You'll find recipes that cater to all tastes and dietary preferences, along with tips and techniques to help you build confidence and creativity in the kitchen.

Our collection also includes books that dive into the world of food culture, nutrition, and the stories behind some of the world’s most beloved dishes. Whether you're looking to master new skills, try out fresh recipes, or simply enjoy the art of cooking, this is the perfect place to get inspired. Happy cooking!