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November 25, 2021

The Oxford Companion to Spirits and Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich with Noah Rothbaum

Review by Hayley Anderton The first book I met when I started working in the wine trade was Jancis Robinson’s The Oxford Companion to…

August 17, 2021

Sicilia by Ben Tish

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton This book turned up out of the blue when it was still cold and miserable back in the spring (thank…

July 15, 2021

Martha Lloyd’s Household Book

Introduced with annotated transcription by Julienne Gehrer. Review by Hayley Anderton Martha Lloyd, to the previously uninitiated (such as myself) was a friend and…

July 1, 2021

Gelupo Gelato by Jacob Kenedy

Review by Hayley Anderton When Gelupo Gelato arrived, it was so hot I couldn’t muster the energy to make the big supermarket trip to…

October 27, 2020

The Little Library Christmas by Kate Young

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton I’m a proper fan of Kate Young and her Little Library books – they’re a delightful mix of recipes, reflection,…

Summer Kitchens by Olia Hercules
August 18, 2020

Summer Kitchens by Olia Hercules

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton At the risk of speaking to soon lockdown finally seems to be lifting in Leicester just in time to catch…

July 21, 2020

Summer’s Lease by Thom Eagle

Review by Hayley Anderton I’ve heard universally good things about Thom Eagle’s first book, First, Catch and it has a clutch of awards to…

July 14, 2020

Root Stem Leaf Flower by Gill Meller

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Whilst writing this I’m still officially in full lockdown in Leicester. I don’t know what it’s like on the outside,…

May 12, 2020

Oats in the North Wheat from the South by Regula Ysewijn

Review by Hayley Anderton I know it’s not the easiest time to get baking supplies, or books, or enough exercise to work off the…

April 2, 2020

Drinking French by David Lebovitz

Review by Hayley Anderton Before everything started to close down the books I had been particularly anticipating, ordering, and reading, were mostly food and…

Cocoa sue quinn
April 16, 2019

Cocoa An Exploration of Chocolate, With Recipes, by Sue Quinn

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton There are all sorts of reasons I pick up cookbooks to look at: I like the cover, I like the…

What She Ate by Laura Shapiro
April 5, 2018

What She Ate by Laura Shapiro

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton What She Ate looks at ‘six remarkable women and the food that tells their stories’. It comes at a time…

November 2, 2017

A Round-Up of Christmas Cookbooks

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Christmas is coming and it’s time to start talking about it. The books vying for our money, and a top…

The Cocktail Book
October 24, 2017

The Cocktail Book

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton My day job is selling wine, spirits, and beer, something I fell into when I became interested in learning more…

The Olive Oil Diet by Dr Simon Poole and Judy Ridgway
February 7, 2017

The Olive Oil Diet by Dr Simon Poole and Judy Ridgway

Reviewed by Harriet When I was a small child my mother, who spent a lot of time in France and loved French cooking, used…

December 16, 2016

Simple by Diana Henry and Gather by Gill Meller

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton A tale of two cookbooks: Simple and Gather The nights are now longer than the days, the quinces on the…

December 2, 2016

Cookbooks for Christmas

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Despite having run out of shelf space for more cookbooks some time ago, they remain one of my favourite things…

October 11, 2016

Reading for Food and Drink

Written by Hayley Anderton Wine is a wonderful thing, a living, breathing, liquid that ages, changes, develops in bottle and glass. It has the…

October 11, 2016

Polska by Zuza Zak

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton It’s no secret that I have a weakness for cookbooks, I love them, love the way that they give me…

June 21, 2016

Pride And Pudding by Regula Ysewijn

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Sometimes I wonder if my cookbook habit is getting out of control, and in my darkest moments I’ll even question…

October 29, 2015

The Oxford Companion to Wine 4th Edition by Jancis Robinson and Julia Harding

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton It was reading Jancis Robinson’s Confessions of a Wine Lover which initially pushed me to learn more about wine, and the second…

August 6, 2015

Game by Tim Maddams

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton I love the River Cottage handbooks, really truly deeply love them. Individually they are all excellent stand alone cookbooks and…

April 14, 2015

A Bird in the Hand by Diana Henry

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton Chicken recipes for every day and every mood. Chicken is hard to avoid these days. When I was a child…

January 20, 2015

Marmalade: A Bittersweet Cookbook by Sarah Randall

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton There is a not very scientific argument that claims that the third Monday in January is the most depressing day…

October 8, 2014

The Oxford Companion to Food by Alan Davidson, ed. Tom Jaine

Reviewed by Hayley Anderton My best friend and I met through books; she was running a discount bookshop that I used to shop in,…

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