WHISK! — Fresh Cookbooks at VOLUME
A fresh season calls for a fresh cookbook. With a plethora of tasty ingredients just around the corner, let a cookbook take you on a journey, expand your food knowledge and repertoire, open the door to a cultural experience, bring creativity into your kitchen, and supply you with the very best of recipes, both innovative and simple, for indulging in and sharing over the summer months ahead.
Michèle Roberts is cooking for two. A book for friendship, French Cooking for Two: Seaons of Friendship is as endearing and witty as her first French culinary adventure, French Cooking for One. Packed with over 170 recipes for every season, hints, and foodie stories, Roberts gives us her take on the French classics to bring us a wealth of simple recipes to share joyfully. Her sources are both historical, drawing from great cooks such as Mme Saint-Ange and her La bonne cuisine (1929); and personal — the kitchen notes of her Aunt Brigitte.
In her introduction she espouses the delight and sustenance friendships bring her. “Cooking for a dear friend is a major source of pleasure in my life; a practical, direct way of showing love. Talking tête-à-tête over good food adds a further layer of enjoyment to being in a friend’s company. The pleasures of easting and the pleasures of talking enrich and deepen each other.”
With her usual flair and quirky illustrations, Cooking for Two is literary and culinary joie de vivre.
Ixta Belfrgae is a rule breaker. Inspired by her Brazilian heritage, FUSÃO is a fusion cookbook taking the best flavours of Brazil, itself a fusion cuisine with influences from Portugal, West Africa and Indigenous communities, and blending this with Belfrage’s inventive cooking style. Playful, fresh, and jubilant, these recipes intrigue and satisfy. Traditional recipes have twists, there are flavour bombs to excite the taste buds, and much to discovery in Belfrage’s journey through food to her cultural heritage. Delicious! And perfect for summer snacking, and entertaining.
From the author of the bestseller Salt Fat Acid Heat comes Good Things: — a treasure box of a cookbook. In Samin Nosrat’s treasure chest you’ll find her beloved everyday recipes and favourite ingredients, as well as tools, tips and techniques, all imbued with her love for food and pleasure in sharing.
”There is magic in the way Samin teaches. She wins you over immediately with an irresistible combination of warmth, honesty, deep understanding of cooking…. If anyone can show us how to cook, it is Samin.” — Alice Waters
Take a journey into the mountains with travel and food writer Caroline Eden; from the sun-baked valleys of Armenia to the jagged peaks of Georgia. In Green Mountains you will find great walks, epic landscapes, lively stories, cultural history (*featuring this amazing building), and delicious recipes.
”There is nobody writing about food at the moment who's committed to this level of immersion and it rings out in every line.” —Tim Hayward, Financial Times
”One of the most brilliant travel writers of her generation.” —Fuchsia Dunlop
Other books by Caroline Eden: Black Sea, Red Sands, Cold Kitchen
This is the perfect book for summer celebrations and relaxed dining. Boustany translates from Arabic as 'My Garden', and the recipes are down-to-earth, relaxed and plentiful. Bold, inspiring and ever-evolving, Boustany picks up where Falastin left off, with flavour-packed, colourful and simple vegetable- and grain-led dishes — a tribute to his Palestinian heritage.
”This is my dream cookbook. It's full of heart, soul and Sami's very delicious food. I have a library of cookbooks, but Sami's are one of the only ones I genuinely cook from.’” —Meera Sodha
”I love Sami Tamimi's wonderful Boustany. It is thrilling and also moving to see what a great chef has done with the flavourful home cooking of a people with a rich and diverse culinary tradition and a deep connection with the land.” —Claudia Roden
Helen Goh draws on her upbringing in Malaysia and Australia, her acclaimed work with Yotam Ottolenghi, and her psychology training to share her distinctive approach to baking. Baking and the Meaning of Life is a stand-out. Divine sweet treats, next-level cakes, tarts and loaves, chocolate and fruits …and more. Over 100 of Goh’s favourite recipes to explore and share.
”Helen in her absolute element. It really doesn't get any better.’” — Yotam Ottolenghi
”I have rarely leafed through a book and wanted so much to get into the kitchen!” — Diana Henry
