Nigel Slater`s classic guide to comfort food ` Real food means big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.` Since its publication in 1998, which tied in with his first TV series, the innovative ` Real Food` has become the essential food book to have on the kitchen shelf. From Stickiest Ever Chicken Wings to Baked Goat`s Cheese & Pesto in Filo Pastry to the classic Bacon Butty, it covers Slater`s indispensable signature dishes
- the ones you wouldn`t be without for love or money. Based on Nigel Slater`s favourite foods, this classic helped to create a nation of food lovers. Nigel finds good things to make using all sorts of ingredients
- mass produced sliced white to fine Italian loaves, standard corner shop confectionery to real chocolate made from cocoa solids. These irresistible recipes are still up-to-the-minute & this gorgeous reissue edition proves that ` Real Food` is still a must-have for any cookery enthusiast.

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The Real Food of China is the definitive guide to home-style Chinese cuisine. It is inspired by the authors` personal travels to China & the realisation that what is commonly perceived as ” Chinese food” in the Western world, is only part of the story. While there is a growing appreciation of regional Chinese food in larger cities outside China, a lot of authentic regional cuisine still goes uncelebrated in Chinese restaurants around the world. The main purpose of this book is to capture the essence of simple home cooking & the wide variety of food that changes from region to region. Chapters are broken down into food categories including cold dishes, soups & hotpots, dumplings, breads & noodles, pork, chicken, fish, vegetables & desserts. Dishes include fermented foods from Shaoxing, smoked pork from Hunan, Hakka food from Meizhou, Muslim street fare from Xi`an, fresh river fish from Jiangxi province, fish dumplings & flat breads cooked over stones from Shandong & bowls of fresh, steaming, soft tofu slathered in chilli & peppercorns from Sichuan villages. Captured with stunning location photography from each of the visited regions as well as beautiful food photography throughout, A Taste of China brings a small glimpse of the gutsy, earthy, everyday side of Chinese cooking to light. Food that is incredibly diverse, simple to prepare, full of flavour, & based on seasonal produce & easily procured dry goods. The Real Food of China will change everything you previously thought about traditional Chinese cuisine. ...

This guide will lead you to the pubs throughout the Midlands which still have interiors or internal features of real historic significance. They range from rural `time-warp` pubs to ornate drinking `palaces` & include some unsung interiors from the inter-war period. This is the first guide of its kind for the Midlands & it champions the need to celebrate, understand & protect the genuine pub heritage which remains to us. ...

Compiled by the Campaign for Real Ale`s Pub Heritage Group, this is a guide to the rich pub heritage treasure of the North West. The listed pubs have interiors or features which have remained unaltered for 50 years, & are described in full detail, with colour photography throughout. ...

In population terms, Liverpool isn't a vast city (dwarfed by Birmingham, say), but it looms colossal in the history (recorded & mythical) of the British Isles, & in fact the world. Real Liverpool is Niall Griffiths' antidote to the flood of mawkish twaddle that will appear in the build-up to 2008 when Liverpool is European City of Culture. It showcases Griffiths' love/hate relationship with the city, its maritime & merchant histories, class divisions, sectarian divides, Celtic influences, & the siege mentality underpinning the celebrated Scouse humour. Nor does he flinch from Liverpool's dark side: the drugs, the urban blight, the fallout from Thatcherism, the internecine violence. Jamie Bulger, Heysel, Hillsborough, the Dockers' Strike, the Toxeth Riots, all of these & more are discussed. Real Liverpool is underpinned by a strong autobiographical element which details the author's birth & formative years in the city, his movement away from it, & the abiding pull it exerts. In addition, Griffiths interviews many people closely connected to the city, from personal friends & family members to artists & workers. From the Wirral to Warrington, Anfield to Everton, Bottle to Diddyl&, Griffiths criss-crosses the city by the Ferry & through the Tunnels, from John Lennon airport to the racecourse & down the docks, building a picture of a city which, whatever its faults, is never dull. ...

Every man has faced that emergency where a car needs to be broken into & hot-wired; just as every man needs to be able to mix the perfect dry Martini. The world is a dangerous & unpredictable place; a man never knows when he might be called upon to start a fire with just a coke can, win at croquet or drive a T34 tank. Twigger has plenty of experience of facing down bears, building coracles, swimming with sharks
- now he shows every man how to cook a hedgehog, commit hara-kiri & land a Boeing 747.
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Mexican food is more popular than ever. Ben Fordham & Felipe Fuentes Cruz aim to deliver everything that is exciting & fresh about Mexican food to the people of Britain with their restaurant, Benito`s Hat. From the beaches of Baja & Cancun to the mountains of the Sierra Madre, Mexico has an incredible variety of vibrant flavours to offer. All of this rich culinary culture has inspired Benito`s Hat`s delicious burritos, tacos, soups & salads. Ben Fordham & Mexican chef Felipe have created a cookbook offering their favourite dishes from their restaurants, plus many more from Felipe`s collection of authentic recipes. You`ll find Starters; Soups & Salads; Main Dishes; Side Dishes; Salsas; Desserts; & Drinks. Mouth-watering recipes include guacamole with homemade corn tortilla chips, burritos with beef birria, pico de gallo & salsa brava, tacos with prawns & paprika, refried beans with chorizo, Mexican flan, ice cold margaritas & refreshing non-alcoholic juices. ...

Have you ever wondered what exactly does go bump in the night? From mysteries like Shackleton`s ghostly companion to the Loch Ness Monster & friends, read the amazing evidence about these mysterious cases & make up your own mind. Things are not always what they seem
- until they are, then you might wish you had never asked!
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` The physicist transforming how we see the universe` (Financial Times)` An utter joy` (Adam Rutherford)`A hugely engaging book... Rovelli is a charming, thought-provoking tour guide` (Manjit Kumar Prospect) Do space & time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texturescientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions & pushing the boundaries of what we know. In this mind-expanding book, he shows how our understanding of reality has changed throughout centuries, from Democritus to loop quantum gravity. Taking us on a wondrous journey, he invites us to imagine a whole new world where black holes are waiting to explode, spacetime is made up of grains, & infinity does not exist -- a vast universe still largely undiscovered. Translated by Simon Carnell & Erica Segre ...

Do space & time truly exist? What is reality made of? Can we understand its deep texture? Scientist Carlo Rovelli has spent his whole life exploring these questions & pushing the boundaries of what we know. In this mind-expanding book, he shows how our understanding of reality has changed throughout centuries, from Democritus to loop quantum gravity. Taking us on a wondrous journey, he invites us to imagine a whole new world where black holes are waiting to explode, spacetime is made up of grains, & infinity does not exist -- a vast universe still largely undiscovered. ...