Despite our apparently unwhetted appetite for the TV tie-in cookbooks that bloat our bookshops (Jamie, Nigella, Hugh, James, Nigel and, yes, Yotam: enough already) this has also been a good year for new voices.
Despite our apparently unwhetted appetite for the TV tie-in cookbooks that bloat our bookshops (Jamie, Nigella, Hugh, James, Nigel and, yes, Yotam: enough already) this has also been a good year for new voices.
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With recipes for everything from 1970s dinner party titbits to authentic Venetian treats, there is a feast of new cookery titles to choose from. By Cate Devine
For those who like to gossip while they cook, Claire Macdonald's Lifting The Lid (Birlinn, £17.99) takes the biscuit. Covering the 40 years that she and her husband, clan chief Godfrey Macdonald of Macdonald, ran Kinloch Lodge on Skye, it's liberally sprinkled with personal anecdotes and digs at politicians, tradesmen and critics among inspirational recipes from all four decades, starting with the 1970s "dinner party-type food" she created from her collection of Cordon Bleu magazines. The early menus are a timely reminder of how difficult it once was to source fresh fruit and veg on the Western Isles, experiences which have made Lady Claire a vocal champion of fresh local produce.
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