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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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    Highlights the working solutions as well as open problems and future challenges in the use of nutraceuticals in sexual disorder research. Discusses the remedial properties that nutraceuticals possess that can be applied to a range of sexual disorders. Covers use of nutraceuticals for male, female as well as general sexual disorders.

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    Studies several minor fruits and their nutritional and bioactive potential, general characteristics, and opportunities for use in various functional food products and role in combating diet-related diseases. Overviews postharvest techniques used for minor fruits to preserve quality, enhance shelf life, streamline fruit processing, etc.

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    by Matt Groark
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    From teacher-turned-grillmaster and TikTok sensation The Meat Teacher comes the ultimate BBQ lesson plan: a fiery cookbook bursting mouthwatering recipes, plus easy-to-follow tips and tricks that will guarantee you graduate with an A+ at the pit. "Whoever cooked this knows how to nail meat." -Gordon RamsayWhen Matt Groark, a high school teacher with a passion for BBQ, began posting his sizzling hot recipes on TikTok, his open-flame videos went viral and earned "The Meat Teacher" a devoted following of millions. Today, he's the founder of his own BBQ business and has even showcased his grilling skills on Fox's hit show Next Level Chef starring Gordon Ramsay. Through it all, Matt has stayed true to his ultimate goal: creating spectacular, finger-licking recipes that are must haves for every family. Now, in his debut cookbook, Matt opens his backyard classroom for a crash course in sizzling meats and barbeque favorites. With his inviting no-frills, all-fun approach, he gives you essential tools, techniques, and confidence to master the barbeque. From perfecting pulled pork to slow cooking brisket, The Meat Teacher Cookbook includes over 90 flavorful recipes for easy and delicious meals, sides, and appetizers, such as:Pickle Glazed Pork RibsSmoked Backyard BrisketBBQ Bacon Wrapped DrumsticksKalbi Style Korean BBQ Short RibsCast Iron Shrimp ScampiThese crowd-pleasing recipes are accompanied by over 100 vibrant, full-color photographs and heartwarming anecdotes of good times and even better food. With The Meat Teacher Cookbook, cooking from the heart has never been easier or more delicious. Make your own lasting memories around the grill, no matter the occasion or season, whether you're tailgating, camping under the stars, hosting a classic summer BBQ, or whipping up a weeknight family dinner. Welcome to class-let's get cooking!

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    by Meathead
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    "The only book on outdoor cookery you'll ever need." --Alton BrownIn his long-awaited follow-up to his New York Times bestselling Meathead, BBQ Hall of Famer and founder of Amazingribs.com Meathead presents an unmatched guide to the science of great barbecue, grilling, griddling, and outdoor cooking with the latest cutting-edge science, covering even more cooking techniques--plus more than 110 creative and inspiring recipes.Let Meathead take you where barbecue goes next. In his long awaited, must-have companion book to Meathead, Meathead shares even more cutting-edge science and imaginative recipes in The Meathead Method. You'll find cooking methods and techniques not covered in his first book, like brinerades (combining brines and marinades), sous vide que (combining sous vide and the grill or smoker), grill frying (the grill is the perfect place for deep frying), faux frying (great crunchy breadings without all the oil), griddling, cooking with koji, stir-frying on a grill with a wok, tea smoking, tandoori cooking, pizza making, smoking cheeses, building rubs and sauce, and much more.All along the way, Meathead busts even more myths, reveals little known facts, and shares hot tips to master your grill (or griddle or smoker).Myth. Soak your wood for more smoke. Busted! There's a reason they build boats out of wood--wood doesn't absorb water and soaking it prevents smoke.Myth. Cook chicken until the juices run clear. Busted! Pink juice in cooked chicken is due to myoglobin and cytochrome, which may not turn clear until 180°F (which is overcooked).Myth. Marinades will penetrate faster under a vacuum. Busted! When you suck the air out from around the meat, you are creating a vacuum outside the meat and it will suck the juices out of the meat, not in.And he follows it all up with more than 110 tested creative recipes to inspire you to break out of the traditional barbecue box--experiment with new ingredients, techniques, and impressive recipes not covered in other barbecue books, with dishes like Championship Pork Ribs, Pho with Leftover Brisket and Smoked Bone Broth, Real Fried Chicken on a Gas Grill (It's Safe!), The Ultimate Smash Burger, Mussels with Smoked Fettucine, Crawfish on Dirty Rice, Squash Bisque, and Drunken Peaches and Cream.

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    This volume collects information on the association between functional and chronic diseases. The burden of escalating chronic diseases is discussed in the first chapter, and the remaining fourteen chapters summarize the effect of functional foods on a range of chronic diseases.

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    by Mori Yoshida
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    “Veteran bakers will be rewarded.” –Publishers Weekly “Known for giving French classics a Japanese twist.” –Condé Nast Traveller Step into the world of Gâteaux, a celebration of Japanese refinement and French pastry. Sweet creations extend beyond the titular gateaux, occasionally adding subtle elements of innovation from Mori Yoshida’s homeland.Encouraging the enjoyment of pastries at nearly every opportunity, Gâteaux presents recipes for different times of the day, from breakfast pains au chocolat to the indulgent Mont-blanc in the evening. Step-by-step line drawing sequences accompany many recipes to provide clear guidance for assembly. Originating from a Parisian pastry shop, the European outpost of an award-winning Japanese pastry chef, Gâteaux features timeless favorites like vanilla flan and chocolate éclairs and revisits classics inspired by the land of the rising sun, such as Paris-Brest with black sesame and Japanese fraisier.

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    by Andy Husbands
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    Quick and Easy Burger Cookbook incorporates new techniques, inspirations, and ingredients to take everyday and special-occasion burgers to the next level.

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    by Dick Logue
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    You can achieve optimal heart health while losing weight by enjoying the simple and fast-prep meals in Quick and Easy Low Glycemic Index Recipes.

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    by Editors of the Harvard Common Press
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    Discover a big, bold, brimming-with-flavor world of new grilling recipes in this authoritative, creative, and photo-rich cookbook.You probably grew up watching your family and neighborhood grill jockeys slinging burgers, steaks, and hot dogs on the grill. As a result, you can do that, too, and you don’t need a book. However, if you’ve ever given a thought to grilling delectably new and different things, Grilling is the book that you need. It includes such inventive recipes as:Grilled Shrimp Remoulade AppetizersChurch Picnic Pork ChopsTrue Texas Rib-EyeMint Julep Leg of LambOrange-Chipotle Chicken BreastsPacific Rim Tuna BurgersGrilled Lobster BLT SandwichesDuck JambalayaYou’ll even find a half dozen amazing ideas for grilled pizzas, plus a full chapter of desserts from the grill, from Grilled Honeyed Figs to Crunchy Caramelized Pears. For the early risers, there are even grilled breakfasts. Whether you are expanding your own fire-cooking skills or need a handsome and idea-packed gift for your favorite griller, you will find a lifetime of new ideas in these pages.

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    by Editors of the Harvard Common Press
    £10.99

    Unlock the secrets of cooking on a smoker and enjoy the deeply soulful flavors of authentic pit-smoked BBQ made right in your backyard.If you are new to smoke-cooking, you know it is more complicated than grilling. The cooking times are measured in hours, not minutes, and maintaining the perfect low temperature over those hours can be a challenge—especially when your fuel is wood chunks or logs and not propane gas or store-bought charcoal. Smoking serves up expert guidance on these tricky matters in a clear and concise way that even a total newbie can understand. Best of all, it offers 75 flavor-packed recipes that will make you not just use your smoker, but love it. They include:Genuine Texas Pitmaster Brisket Korean Beef Short Ribs Tandoori-Style Chicken BreastsKansas City’s Favorite Baby Back Pork RibsTandoori-Style Chicken BreastsSmoked Lamb Burgers with Salsa VerdeCider-Soaked Pork KebabsSugar-and-Spice Smoked SalmonSmoked Pineapples with Smoked Pineapple SalsaThis colorful, photo-rich book is the perfect gift for anyone new to smoke-cooking or for BBQ veterans who want to graduate to true pitmaster status. It covers the Southern and Texas classics as well as new-school barbecue that incorporates global flavors and lighter, healthier proteins. You will be enjoying these recipes for years to come.

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    by Editors of the Harvard Common Press
    £10.99

    Learn to love your air fryer even more with 75 creative, easy-to-make, and incredibly delicious recipes.Everyone is getting an air fryer these days, but few of us realize how versatile and powerful an appliance it is. This authoritative, inventive, and colorful photo-packed book reveals the hidden potential of the air fryer, along with the amazing breadth of things you can cook in it. The recipes include: Cinnamon Strudel French ToastSmoky Breakfast Potatoes with Chipotle KetchupRoasted Garlic GuacamoleZucchini Rice FrittersLoaded Baked Potatoes with Broccoli and CheddarGeneral Tso’s ChickenMushroom Turkey Burgers Teriyaki-Glazed RibsPecan-Crusted TilapiaSweet and Smoky Candied PecansChurros with Chocolate Dipping SauceRoasted Strawberry Tart with HoneyWith recipes for breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, and desserts, along with parties and bedtime snacks, you will soon find yourself using this convenient and easy device all day, every day. The book includes both down-home and familiar comfort foods and exciting new recipe ideas from all of the world’s tastiest cuisines. And, unlike other air-fryer cookbooks that focus on traditional “fried foods,” this book emphasizes low-oil and low-fat recipes throughout. There are even a dozen delectable and super-healthy vegan and vegetarian main courses. It’s the perfect gift for a friend or family member who is new to air-frying—or even for yourself!

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    by Editors of the Harvard Common Press
    £10.99

    Discover the incredible number of things—including complete meals!—you can make in your rice cooker.Rice cookers, thanks to a veritable explosion of interest in them among social media influencers, are more popular than ever. But TikTok and YouTube reels rarely include recipes—and, to be frank, the ones you can find are not the most reliable recipes around. Rice Cooker, a colorful, photo-rich, and accessible book with more than 75 recipes and lots of rice cooker tips, tricks, and wisdom, delivers what you need.   For starters, it expands your rice-making skills beyond white and brown rice to include arborio rice (which is used in risottos), basmati rice, sushi rice, and other varieties. Next, it reveals in delectable recipes that other grains besides rice do quite well indeed in the rice cooker, such as oats and oatmeal, grits, hominy, and polenta, not to mention beans and legumes. Best of all, it shows that you can make full meals, from breakfast through lunch to dinner, right in the rice cooker. The recipes include:Breakfasts to start the day, like Hot Apple Granola or Sweet Breakfast Grits with Fresh FruitPilafs and risottos, such as Caribbean Yellow Rice Pilaf or Italian Sausage RisottoOne-dish dinner entrees, from Steamed Chicken Breasts with Warm Mango Sauce and Coconut Rice to Steamed Shrimp with Jasmine RiceDesserts and sweet treats, such as Poached Dried Figs in Spiced Red Wine or Steamed Chocolate CustardsMove over slow cookers and Instant Pots. The humblest appliance in our kitchen arsenals turns out to be amazingly easy and versatile and capable of making truly delicious dishes.

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    by Omid Roustaei
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    by Saliha Mahmood Ahmed
    £19.49

    'Life does not allow for extended sessions in the kitchen but it's still possible to eat delicious home-cooked food in just 20 minutes a day.' Saliha Mahmood AhmedAs a specialist registrar in gastroenterologist with a Masters in Nutrition and an award-winning cookery writer, Saliha is in a unique position to help home cooks transform their health by stealth. By simply cooking her delicious 20-minute recipes you will be improving your gut health and reducing your reliance on harmful UPF.Saliha has created 3 simple steps to success:1 IDENTIFY the percentage of UPF consumed each week and count the number of plant-based foods. 2 AIM to eat less than 20% UPF and include 30 different plant-based ingredients each week. 3 FOCUS your 20 minutes cooking a day on the mealtime where there are the most health gains to be made.Enjoy a healthy protein packed breakfast to replace your boring cereal like Berry and Chia Seed Breakfast Bowl; portable lunches like Chicken, Cucumber and Kimchi Sandwiches that will make a tempting change from any Meal Deal option; or try super family friendly suppers like Prawn Tacos with Gut Loving Relish.After 2 weeks following the Gut Health Fix method and cooking Saliha's delicious 20-minute meals, you'll see significant decreases in the amount of UPF you consume, increases in number plant-based ingredients on your plate and your gut will be thanking you.

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    by Lacey Ostermann
    £17.99

    Learn how to make bread simply and deliciously with three easy-to-master doughs for FOCACCIA, SANDWICH BREAD and PIZZA from the queen of dough behind your favorite viral bread-making videos on social media, Lacey Ostermann (@_lacebakes_). Lacey presents 20 creative yet easily achievable recipes for each dough, whether you’re baking, topping, using up leftover bread or reworking the doughs into a variety of bread products. Every dough also has practical step-by-step instructions, detailed photography and QR codes to video tutorials that will fill you with confidence as you learn to make bread.  * Focaccia dough can be baked into flavorful Chimichurri Focaccia, or turned into Cinnamon Raisin Bread or Roman-style Pizza. Any leftover focaccia can be turned into a Panzanella Salad.  * Sandwich Bread chapter teaches you how to make the perfect White or Wholewheat Sandwich Bread to top with Grilled Nectarine, Burrata and Hot Honey. Try rolling the dough into Cheesy Garlic Swirls or Cinnamon Caramel Monkey Bread for a fun twist.  * Pizza dough is prime time for topping creativity – make sure to try Lacey’s Roasted Pumpkin Pizza with Fresh Basil Pesto and use any leftover dough to make Flatbreads with Creamy Tzatziki Dip or fluffy Doughnuts. Bonus recipes for toppings, dips and sauces are included within the recipes to elevate your bakes – Hot Honey, Pink Pickled Onions, Homemade Ranch Dressing, Everything Bagel Seasoning and One-Minute Pizza Sauce are a few flavorful highlights. Lacey has taken her most-asked questions and feedback from home bakers and streamlined techniques to give you confidence and excitement about making and baking dough. There are even timelines to make sure you know how to make the bread work for you, so you don’t have to work for the bread.   Whether you’re a newbie to breadmaking or a seasoned pro, grab a bag of flour, pop on an apron and let’s dough!

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    by Alissa Timoshkina
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    by Carla Oates
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    by Mark Gregory
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    by Jordan Spence
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    'Wonderfully Straightforward' - The IndependentMaster the art of mixology with these easy to make and beautifully illustrated infographic cocktail recipes. Each beautifully designed infographic in Lessons in Mixology shows precise measurements in easy-to-see glass proportions and gives instructions on which garnish and type of glass to be used for each drink.From coolers and coladas to slings, sours and screws, this book includes over 200 recipes for both old favourites and modern inventions alongside an informative introduction that gives details on equipment needed, glassware, bar stocking and the basic techniques to get you started.

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    by Thi Le
    £19.49

    A looking glass into the essence of Vietnamese cuisine and the life of overseas Vietnamese across the world in the twenty-first century.

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    by Glenn Dakin
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    Set your tastebuds to stunned! These Star Trek cocktail recipes will take you where no one has gone before. From Kirk's Old Fashioned to Picard's Earl Grey Martini - They're cocktails, Jim, but not as you know them...

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    by Mehak Kansal
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    'Bindas' means daring, carefree – a free spiritAt Bindas eateries in London, Mehak Kansal's bold food feeds the soul, layering flavours inspired by her Indian heritage, her travels, and her rural English upbringing. Her crowd-pleasing recipes are born out of childhood summers in India spent watching street-food vendors and then later her travels around the world picking up new flavor combinations and techniques.If, like Mehak, you're someone who takes their food seriously and loves to feed people, you'll be blown away by Bindas. Bombay Cheese Toast, Paneer Tikka Burger, Mehak's bestselling Chicken Makhani, Masala Potato Skins and the amazing Chai-misu. This is vibrant, unexpected Indian food with a global outlook.

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    by Michael Finnerty
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    by Enza Genovese
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    A beautiful collection of delicious Sicilian recipes, complete with specially commissioned photography of Sicily.

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    by Murdoch Books Test Kitchen
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    From veggies on the side, to the main event.

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    by Murdoch Books Test Kitchen
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    by Murdoch Books Test Kitchen
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    Recipes that require very little hands-on preparation, for effortless mealtimes.

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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