Chocolate
We've selected our Top 5 favourite chocolate cookbooks so you can indulge your chocolate fetish even further. Have fun.
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Online chocolate shops
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Call us biased but we're salivating over the paperback publication of our food editor's homage to pies. The come-hither pastry cover is enough to make us weak at the knees, and then there's the content...
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Pie recipes
Back to your Roots
Made famous by his sauces on BBC’s Dragons’ Den, Levi Roots is the king of Caribbean cooking. His latest book shows brings sunshine and spice to entertaining.
Long live Leon
Every high street should have a Leon; fast food restaurants that offer healthy, seasonal, affordable dishes. And now there's a cookbook – hooray!
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Q&As with Allegra McEvedy
Eastern promise
There’s more to Mr Stein than fish and Cornwall, as his new book – a culinary quest through Southeast Asia – reveals.
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Quick Thai dishes
Mediterranean magic
A book that captures the vast array of Mediterranean dishes infused with Middle-Eastern herbs and spices.
Dinner party savvy
Jo Pratt has worked with everyone from Jamie to Gordon to Gary Rhodes. Her last book made a splash, and we’ve got together with Waterstone’s to showcase her new one.
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Dinner party recipes
Jamie
Jamie Oliver is off on his travels again and brings tales from countries closer to home in his latest offering, available now from Waterstone’s.
Seasoned traveller
Coast to Coast is an excellent collection far broader in range than many cook books published this year and the timing couldn’t be better...
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Q&As with Rick Stein
French fancy
Loosely translated, ripailles means feasts; and no better word could describe this sumptuous tome.
Rachel
Rachel Allen's latest book, Home Cooking, is a how-to guide to becoming the sort of ideal mum that she embodies: practical, resourceful, dependable, but also a dab hand with a whisk.
Hairy nice
Food-loving telly fans will be aware of the existence of those great grizzlies of grub. This book, Mums Know Best: The Hairy Bikers' Family Cookbook, accompanies the TV series of the same name.
Rising star
You may well have never heard of Richard Corrigan (he was a presenter on Full on Food and a participant in the 2006 series of the BBC's Great British Menu), but that won’t bother him, fame isn’t what he’s about...
Marcus
Marcus Wareing has repeatedly been cited as the most talented chef in the country, but Nutmeg & Custard is a surprisingly homely read. His aim in the book, as in his restaurant, is to create interesting, surprising flavour combinations, but you don’t need a team of sous chefs to make these dishes.
A taste of the USA
Britain’s favourite celebrity chef travels across the pond to find out what fuels the USA’s legendary appetite. The resulting new book, which has just arrived in Waterstone’s, contains some real, down-home American classics.
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American recipes
Veggie Victorious!
We’ve teamed up with Waterstone’s, and this month our favourite book is a collection of show-off vegetarian dishes that will leave even carnivores begging for more.
Family food
We take a look at the latest collection of laid-back, family-friendly recipes from everyone’s favourite Aussie chef, in association with Waterstone’s.
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Bill Granger interview
Eat for illness
A new book provides over 100 recipes that patients and carers can use to provide meals for the changing likes and dislikes of the chemotherapy patient.
Ayurveda
Anjum Anand’s latest book, on the Ayurvedic system of eating, can help you recover from the excesses of the festive season, and is available from Waterstone’s.
Eat and be well
Learn how to maximise the goodness you get from the food you eat.
Skye's the limit
A long-awaited sequel to the hugely successful A Year in My Kitchen.
Top-rated restaurants
A useful, comprehensive guide to some of the best eateries in the world.
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Our favourite UK vegetarian restaurants
From a culinary dynasty
We’ve teamed up with Waterstone’s to select our favourite new cookbook of the month. Here, delicious. magazine's deputy editor, Helen Renshaw, reviews Michel Roux Jr's latest tome.
Budget
Hard times have brought a flood of books promising to help us eat more cheaply. But do they deliver? We ask three families to road-test three of the most popular credit-crunch cookbooks.
Make the right food choice
A broading-ranging book from the trusted Rough Guide brand that provides informed answers to food-related questions, from the pros and cons of provenance to the future of food.
Local hero
A celebration of the British countryside, its people, lifestyle and food, from the affable chef and UKTV Food presenter.
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Q&As with Matt Tebutt
Gastronomical
Picked in association with Waterstone’s, this cookbook comes from the UK’s most successful chef who brings Michelin-star glamour to pub grub.
Bean me up, Scottie
We love this cookbook with a difference...
A taste of Portugal
Tessa Kiros comes up with another gorgeous tome.
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Piri piri [pir-ree pir-ree]