Richard Graham

'I would like to welcome you to our web-shop and hope that you will find it to be of interest to you. As well as the books we currently list, there are thousands more in print. So if we do not list the book you require or one on any subject that you are interested in, please just contact us and we will quote for price and availability.

For any out of print book we are pleased to offer 'book search' just complete the online form and return it to us, we will do the rest.

I look forward to receiving your orders and just as importantly comments and feed back.'

Although this website is primarily for cookery books, we also have a grand selection of non-cookery LOCAL books on Cornwall, Devon and the South West.  See them in the Online shop.

Spotted Quotes: “I should be surprised to hear that anybody had ever followed any cookery book menu in every detail, all that is needed to design a perfectly good meal is a little common sense and the fundamental understanding  of the composition of a meal”        “The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in this country has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with it before putting the salad in gives sufficient flavour, it rather depends whether you are going to eat the bowl or the salad.”     Both of these are from Elizabeth David .     :-)

Featured Books

Charles Causley - not a cookery book author, but of special interest since we are based in Cornwall.

Sadly, Charles Causley passed away this month, November 2003, and Cornwall mourns one of its treasured literary sons.   You can buy the book below from our online store, and we stock or can obtain most of his books from our Launceston shop, please enquire. 

Peterloo Poets
ISBN 0905291891

Our price £19.50 including postage and package U.K.
This paperback was originally published to celebrate Charles Causley's 70th birthday. Contains original work from Charles Causley, plus numerous other contributors including poetry from Alan Brownjohn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Roger McGough and many others, plus prose from D.M.Thomas, Colin McInnes and more. 
There are uncollected autobiographical prose, manuscript worksheets, plus photographs and a selective bibliography.

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Dear Francesca, A Cookbook with Love
Mary Contini 

Ebury Press ISBN 0091881765

Our price £19.50 including postage and package U.K.

This is a special book the author has collected together her family recipes for her daughter Francesca, which explains the origin of the title, but more importantly for Francesca her origins and roots as the recipes are linked with family history. Some of the recipe ideas are listed below.
Page 96 Celtic (Cream of Spinach) Soup
Page 101 Smoked Haddock Chowder (Cullen Skink)
Page 113 Ravioli Di Ricotta
Page 131 Pesto Alla Genovese
Page 169 Caponata
Page 229 Pan-Roasted Chicken with Rosemary

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Wine Tasting Workbook
Jancis Robinson 

Conran Octopus   ISBN 1840913395

Our price £16.85 including postage and package U.K.

A nice informative book that talks to you - not down to you.   Jancis Robinson lives wine, so she is the ideal person to produce a users (drinkers) guide it is full of helpful information.

Seductive Flavours of the Levant
Nada Saleh 

Robson Books ISBN 1861054467

Our price £18.80 including postage and package U.K.

A nice large cookery book with good colour photographs, it has recipes from Lebanon, Syria and Turkey - these are traditional dishes rather than restaurant fayre.
Some of the recipes are listed below.
Page 24 Kibbeh Batata Al-Jabal, mountain potato kibbeh
Page 43 Aswad ala Aswad, stewed lamb with stuffed aubergines
Page 57 Makloubet Al-Arnabit, upside-down cauliflower
Page 111 Labanieh, chicken and lamb in yogurt
Page 134 Mrabba Zahr Al-Ward, rose petal jam
Page 179 Riz Bi-Tasseh, upside-down lamb with rice and nuts
Page 272 Kaymakli Kuru Kayisi, apricots stuffed with cream

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