Frank Camorra owns and operates a Spanish restaurant in Melbourne, Australia called MoVida. It’s wildly successful and highly acclaimed. This book, MoVida Rustica, written in conjunction with Richard Cornish is Camorra’s latest evangelistic push for Spanish cuisine. MoVida Rustica is an absorbing and captivating book, part recipe book, part travelogue, documenting Camorra’s culinary trips of [...]
I must admit to approaching Yotam Ottolenhi’s Plenty with some trepidation. It’s a vegetarian cookbook. I am not a vegetarian. You may have noticed this. Vegetarian cooking just isn’t my strong point. I’m not militant about my meat-eating, though, and I’m not averse to vegetarian cuisine. I just don’t think about my cooking as either [...]
The Yorkshire Chef’s Cookbook is published by the good people at the Leeds Guide. It’s a collection of recipes from some of the region’s best chefs. There’s some great stuff here – a smokey duck breast dish from The Fourth Floor Restaurant at Harvey Nichols, some venison from the brilliant Butcher’s Arms at Hepworth, roast [...]
Everybody knows that cooking professionally is hard. The hours are long, the work is stressful. Kitchens are hot, inhospitable and downright dangerous places to work. It’s relentless work, with wave after wave of possible problems and things that could – and do – go wrong. But to some people, cooking is in their blood. It’s [...]
One of the things I remember best about my mum is that she used to be shocked and appalled by anything she thought was ‘rude, lewd or crude’, to use her exact and frequently repeated words. Growing up, this boiled down into the complete and total ban on all kinds of swearing, and also, strangely, [...]