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Are you looking for inspiration for your next meal? At Tales you find a wide selection of books about food and drink. In the selection you find recipes for the hottest new dishes and the beloved classics made like good old mom made them. If you are looking for a lifestyle change you can also dive into our healthy cookbooks and find a guide for the best way to lose weight and keep it for life. If you instead want to spoil your sweet tooth, we recommend you dive into our selection of bakery books with the most delicious recipes for cakes and bread. Are you ready to taste a whole new world of food and drink?
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    by Joel Robuchon
    £18.99

    Robuchon is the most influential French chef of the post-nouvelle cuisine era. His food was seen as instrumental in leading French cuisine away from the excesses - and excessive reductionism - of nouvelle cuisine. This book offers us his recipes, secrets and tips: from the perfect omelette to vegetable soup, leg of lamb to marinated mussels.

  • - A Complete Guide to the Making of Sweet and Dry Mead, Melomel, Metheglin, Hippocras, Pyment and Cyser
    by Bryan Acton
    £9.49

    Mead is an alcoholic drink made by fermenting honey and water with yeast; of all the crafts of mankind, mead-making is certainly one of the oldest. This practical book will inspire you to take up this admirable craft. It includes chapters on honey selection, mead-making techniques, and forty-two recipes.

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    by Heston Blumenthal
    £28.49

    Examines the role of food in our lives and memories. This book explores the 'perfect' versions of eight dishes which represent the essence of our culinary heritage: Roast Chicken & Roast Potatoes; Pizza Bangers & Mash Steak; Spaghetti Bolognese Fish & Chips; and, Black Forest Gateau Treacle Tart & Ice Cream.

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    by Delia Smith
    £19.99

    This cookbook will help you to plan your Christmas festivities to the very last culinary detail, acting as an invaluable Christmas organiser from reminding you to make your Christmas pudding and chutneys in November to giving you a crucial countdown for the Last 36 Hours.

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    by John Livingstone-Learmonth
    £48.99

    Home to the spicy Syrah, or Shiraz, and the floral Viognier grapes, the northern Rhone Valley is one of France's oldest wine-growing regions; its appellations include Hermitage, Cote-Rotie, Condrieu, Crozes-Hermitage, St-Joseph, and Chateau-Grillet. This book contains the secrets of the geology, vineyards, wines, and the growers of the region.

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    by Abram Hoffer
    £16.99

    Orthomolecular nutrition is based on diets and food supplements of essential vitamins and minerals specifically selected to solve individual problems and needs. In this expanded, updated and revised edition, the author discusses orthomolecular medicine and treatment with case histories.

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    by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
    £28.49

    The definitive meat cookery manual for a new generation, from the bestselling author of THE RIVER COTTAGE YEAR and THE RIVER COTTAGE COOKBOOK

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    by Nancy Hughes
    £9.49

    Imagine savoring three delicious, satisfying meals every day without worrying about counting calories or calculating fat grams. Now you can enjoy hundreds of combinations of tempting, flavorful breakfasts, lunches, dinners--even desserts--all for only 1200 calories a day.Every dinner contains no more than 400 calories per serving. Each breakfast and lunch contains only 350 calories per serving, and every delicious dessert contains just 100 calories per serving. All you have to do is select the meals you want to combine for any particular day.Choose from such low-calorie offerings as:Buttermilk pancakes with blueberry sauce, canadian bacon, and sliced orangesRoast beef salad with blue cheese in pitas and fresh apple slicesSliced turkey with mushroom gravy, whipped potatoes, peppered peas, and apricot halvesRaspberry-kissed pears in phyllo nestsEach low-calorie, low-fat recipe includes easy-tofollow instruction and fat grams per serving. Many recipes can be prepared in 15 minutes or less.

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    - The Life and Times of Jack Daniel
    by Peter (Hanover Krass
    £21.49

    Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold medals at the St.

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    by Andrew Dornenburg
    £20.49

    "In Culinary Artistry. Dornenburg and Page provide food and flavor pairings as a kind of steppingstone for the recipe-dependent cook. Their hope is that once you know the scales, you will be able to compose a symphony. "a Molly O'Neil in The New York Times Magazine.

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    - The Best of Anna Del Conte
    by Anna Del Conte
    £14.99

    *As featured in a BBC documentary*In this book Anna Del Conte has collected together the best of her delicious recipes along with tips, anecdotes and reminiscences about her life in Italy and London.

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    by Lois Soneral
    £15.49

    Offers wholesome and customized recipes. This book deals with the dietary myths about diabetes and includes recipe modifications for such foods as desserts, casseroles, appetizers, and snacks that are low in sugar, fat, and cholesterol and don't compromise flavor. It also contains nutritional information and recipes.

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    by Anthony Bourdain
    £11.99

    Anthony Bourdain is a life-long line cook and author of "Kitchen Confidential". Here, he sets off to eat his way around the world. He heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, and travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia (Pailin).

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    - Over 500 Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, Drinks, And More
    by Bruce Weinstein
    £10.99

    The Ultimate Ice Cream Book contains enough recipes to fill your summer days with delicious frozen desserts -- but after acquainting yourself with this book's hundreds of tempting concoctions, you'll want to use it every day of the year.

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    - A Practical Guide to Food Combining and a Recovery Guide
    by Jackie Habgood
    £8.99

    Devised in the early part of this century, the Hay diet became known as food combining. It is based on the idea that separating protein meals from carbohydrate meals helps the body digest food more easily. This book explains simply the principles behind this diet.

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    by Makiko Itoh
    £15.49

    Bento fever has recently swept across the West, fuelled not just by an interest in cute, decorative food, but by the desire for an economical, healthy approach to eating in these times of recession. A leading light in the popularization of bento has been Makiko Itoh, whose blog, Just Bento, boasts hundreds of thousands of subscribers, all of whom love her delicious recipes and practical bento-making tips. Now, for the first time, Itoh's expertise has been packaged in book form. The Just Bento Cookbook contains twenty-five attractive bento menus and more than 150 recipes, all of which have been specially created for this book and are divided into two main sections, Japanese and Not-so-Japanese. The Japanese section includes classic bento menus such as Salted Salmon Bento and Chicken Karaage Bento, while the Not-so-Japanese section shows how Western food can be adapted to the bento concept, with delicious menus such as Summer Vegetable Gratin Bento and Everyone Loves a Pie Bento. In addition to the recipes, Itoh includes sections on bento-making equipment, bento staples to make and stock, basic cooking techniques, and a glossary. A planning-chart section is included, showing readers how they might organize their weekly bento making. In a market full of bento books that emphasize the cute and the decorative, this book stands out for its emphasis on the health and economic benefits of the bento, and for the very practical guidelines on how to ensure that a daily bento lunch is something that can easily be incorporated into anyone's lifestyle. This is the perfect book for the bento beginner, but will also provide a wealth of new bento recipe ideas and tips for Just Bento aficionados.

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    by Samantha Clark
    £21.99

    Sam & Sam Clark share a passion for the food of Spain, North Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean and their London restaurant, Moro, was born out of a desire to cook within these wonderful traditions and to explore exotic flavours little known in the UK.

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    by Nigel Slater
    £15.49

    Nigel Slater's classic guide to comfort food 'Real food means big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Just nice, uncomplicated food.'

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    by Elizabeth David
    £13.49

    Here, Elizabeth David deals with all aspects of flour-milling, yeast, bread ovens, and the different types of bread and flour available. The recipes cover yeast cookery of all kinds, including old-fashioned spiced buns, buns, pancakes, and muffins.

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    by Elizabeth David
    £13.49

    This volume contains three of Elizabeth David's most popular cookery books: "Mediterranean Food", "French Country Cooking" and "Summer Cooking".

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    - Hearth Loaves and Masonry Ovens
    by Alan Scott
    £21.99

    The Bread Builders explains the grains and flours, leavens and doughs, the chemistry of bread, and the physics of baking in a big book filled with helpful drawings, photographs, recipes, and tips. In a unique angle for a book on baking bread, it also includes detailed diagrams and instructions for building your own masonry bread oven from scratch.

  • by C. J. J. Berry
    £9.49

    This book is universally known as the 'winemaker's bible'. This new, completely updated edition with a total sales record of over 3 million copies sold, sets out in metric, imperial and American measures some 150 detailed recipes, all arranged in the months best suited for their making so that winemaking can be pursued all year round.

  • by Ed McCarthy
    £15.49

    This guide to champagne details its history, what it is and how it's made. It shows which grapes are used for champagne and where they grow, the different styles of champagne and the top 25 champagne houses. The book also includes tips on food pairings, storage, serving and bottle sizes.

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    - Food Combining and Good Health
    by Jackie Habgood
    £8.99

    Now updated and revised, this title is your passport to renewed vitality as it attacks the effects of junk food and pollution with a prescription of food combinations and natural wholefoods.

  • - A Personalized Guide to Good Nutrition and Health
    by Amadea Morningstar
    £13.99

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    by Hannelie van Tonder
    £9.99

    This guide offers step-by-step instructions on how to make biltong and droewors, a variety of different sausages (including boerewors, salami and pork sausages), as well as cured and smoked meats.

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    - 100 quick and easy meals for a healthy and happy baby
    by Annabel Karmel
    £11.99

    Making your own baby food is not only more economical than buying commercial brands - you can be sure that your baby has only the best-quality ingredients.

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    by Carolyn Shearlock
    £21.99

    When we couldn't get foods such as sour cream, English muffins, spaghetti sauce or yogurt, we adapted recipes to make our own. This book recipes made from readily-obtainable ingredients with hand utensils, including numerous choices to suit every taste: not just one cake but 20, 16 ways to prepare fish, 10 regional barbeque sauces, and so on.

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    by Annie Proulx
    £11.49

    Annie Proulx, the novelist, first wrote this guide to making cider in 1980. It is a comprehensive, illustrated overview of the process and includes recipes for using the finished product in cooking. Proulx and Lew Nichols also discuss apple presses, glass bottles versus wooden barrels and storage.

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    by Adele Puhn
    £12.99

    The New 5 Day Miracle Diet is a weight-loss and high-energy programme that changes your body chemistry so you will never have to diet again. Based on the simple idea that the reason we gain weight is because we cannot control food cravings, this programme alters our body's biochemistry so that we don't crave sugary, fatty foods. In just five days, Adele Puhn teaches you how to control these cravings by learning to eat certain foods at certain times. You begin the morning 'in low blood sugar'; by noon, you have raised your blood sugar level; throughout the afternoon and evening you will maintain it. The result is that you will not only lose weight, but you will have more energy than you have ever had before. The New 5 Day Miracle Diet is a diet that really works. Try it today and change your life for ever.

Food and drink trends
We have seen a lot of cooking trends in recent years, especially when it comes to sustainability. At Tales you find many cookbooks concerning precisely that. It is actually quite easy to cook sustainably, if you remember these three pieces of advice. 1. always remember to buy locally produced fruit and vegetables so that you reduce transportation that normally leaves a huge climate footprint. 2. use the ingredients that match the season. By doing that you reduce the use of greenhouse farming that also uses a lot of energy. 3. and maybe most importantly; try to lessen your food waste by finding new ways of combining your left-overs. By reducing food waste you also save a lot of money in addition to saving the environment for a lot of wasted energy and unnecessary consumption. If you need creative ideas and new recipes to help you fight food waste, we would recommend you to dive into the cookbook Solo Cooking for a Sustainable Planet
Another trend is food that is easy and fast to cook. In our busy everyday many haven’t got the time to cook, and that makes many choose the easy way by ordering something from the local fastfood restaurant. A choice with little variation and typically not all that healthy. Something Jamie Oliver tries to root out. Jamie Oliver is one of the most popular chiefs in modern time. He has found a way of getting the most tasty meals out of a few good ingredients. Try to dive into his cookery book 5 ingredients - quick & fastfood for easy and cheap recipes for the everyday. Oliver gives his take on healthy dishes that are as fast to make as ordering from your local fastfood restaurant. Jamie Oliver’s collection of easy recipes is also a good cookbook for beginners. 
Fermentation has also gone extremely popular in recent years. The cooking technique might just be the direct opposite of Jamie Oliver’s easy and fast recipes, but many people have started to ferment onions, beetroots, pumpkins and cucumbers at home. You can ferment almost everything, the only limit is your imagination. To ferment is also very sustainable, because it increases the durability of the products you choose to ferment. Read the cookery book The Art of Fermentation to get a guide on how to get started on fermentation. 

Vegan cookery book
Another way of making your cooking more sustainable is also by going vegan - maybe just a day or two every week saves the environment for a lot of CO2. That is why Tales’ collection of food and drink also contains many vegan cookery books. A good vegan cookery book contains delicious and innovative recipes without meat, and it also contains inspiring stories about the vegan life and the challenges it comes with. 
At Tales you find the vegan cookery book Vegan 100 by Gaz Oakley. Oakley gives you a guide with all you need to know, when you go vegan. A book he missed, when he himself went vegan. The vegan cookery book contains no less than 100 green and tasty recipes that makes you forget all about meat. If you want inspiration for your next vegan cookery book take a look at our category Vegetarian cookery that both contains vegan and vegetarian recipes. 

Cookbook for kids
If you want to teach your kids how to cook. You can also find your next cookbook for kids in Tales’ selection. A good cookbook for kids is essential in raising your child, so they can be curious on food and experiment with different recipes. Kids that have cooked in their childhood grow up to be quality-conscious amateur and even professional cooks.  
You can for example let your child discover recipes inspired by the magical world of Harry Potter. In the cookery book Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook - from Mugglers to Magic Gina M. Meyers gives her guide to enchanting meals from the fascinating Harry Potter Universe. Let your child take on a magical journey while making their first meal. The enchanting narrative in the cookbook for kids makes your child more curious about cooking and tasting new ingredients. Cooking becomes a form of play. 

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