BOOKS
Category Spotlight Food & drink
Category Spotlight
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A preview of new titles published between May 2022–April 2023
How to eat more sustainably and ethically are among the most prominent topics addressed by the series of cookbooks forthcoming in the next 12 months
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he Kew Gardens Cookbook from Saltway is an anthology of vegetar- ian recipes from a wide array of the
best chefs, food writers and celebrit cooks at work today. Beautifully presented, it also has a serious side, highlighting the dietary changes needed to ensure future food safet.
The focus on ethical eating and planetary concern is also shared by Louise Gray’s Avocado Anxiet from Bloomsbury, and Annie Bell with a flexitarian diet in Healthy Planet, Healthy You (One Boat). Our reliance on so few key foodstuffs is highlighted by Alex Renton in 13 Foods that Shape our World (BBC Books), and
Rob Percival’s The Meat Paradox examines the vexed questions surrounding meat consumption (Litle, Brown). With food securit questions and concerns to the fore, it is a relief to turn to localism, a more optimistic view of shoring up future food supply. In Orchard, James Rich celebrates the bount of our own country, the food we grow and the food we can forage (Hardie Grant). Olia Hercules’ food memories and recipes draw heavily on her Ukrainian childhood. That time is recalled in Home Food: Recipes to Comfort and Connect (Bloomsbury), food we can cook to enjoy and to share in solidarit.
Category highlights
Food & society
Louise Gray Avocado Anxiety
and Other Food Bloomsbury Wildlife, February, £16.99, 9781472969637
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Questions about the food we eat; with each chapter covering a different issue, from plastic to the climate crisis, farming and what protein is best for us. Anyone wanting a guide to eating ethically could start here.
Food & society
Bee Wilson The Secret of Cooking Fourth Estate, March, £26, 9780008446451
Bee Wilson shows how we form our eating preferences, how they can be changed and, above all, how we can all love our time work- ing in the kitchen—even the washing up. It’s a welcome and optimistic approach to food and cooking, galvanising the experienced and cheering on the beginners.
Cooking & recipes
Olia Hercules Home Food: Recipes to Comfort
and Connect Bloomsbury, July, £26, 9781408899106
Olia Hercules shares her 100 favourite recipes, drawing on her Ukrainian childhood and time spent in Cyprus, Italy and the UK. As well as comfort and connection, there are memories and anec- dotes, together with some very tempting recipes.
Cooking & recipes
Jack Monroe Thrifty Kitchen Bluebird, January 2023, £20, hb, 9781035008513
Fuss-free cooking, with no expensive ingredients used in the making of these 100 easy recipes. An ideal sourcebook for those wanting to eat well and live within a budget, this is packed with staple recipes to form the bedrock for many go-to meals and dishes.
Cooking & recipes
Jeremy Lee Cooking: Simple or
Well for One or Many Fourth Estate, September, £30, 9780008156206
Fourth Estate describes this as a masterclass in simple things done well. Home cooking at its best, using and high- lighting the ingredients and methods that can turn a simple dish into a triumph.
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