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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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  • - A 21-Day Lifestyle Plan for 2020 as followed by Tom Watson, author of Downsizing
    by Donal O'Neill & Dr Aseem Malhotra
    £11.99

    Lose weight and feel great with the ground-breaking Pioppi Diet, which helped Tom Watson to lose 8 stone and 'reverse' his type-2 diabetes, and inspired his book Downsizing. 'A book which has changed my life and which has the power to change the lives of millions' TOM WATSON'I am obsessed. . . I feel leaner, energised, less bloated and more healthy. I genuinely feel like this is no longer a diet plan, it's just the way I eat' SARA COX__________________In the tiny Italian village of Pioppi, they live simple but long and healthy lives. But there is no gym, no supermarket, the food is delicious and they enjoy a glass of wine every evening.Cardiologist and world-leading obesity expert Dr Aseem Malhotra & Donal O'Neill have combined the wisdom of this remarkably long-living population with decades of nutrition and medical research to cut through dietary myths and create this easy-to-follow lifestyle plan.This is NOT a diet or lifestyle which requires saying 'no' to the things you love, or exercising for hours upon end.In JUST 3 WEEKS, The Pioppi Diet will help you make simple, achievable and long-lasting changes to how you eat, sleep and move. You'll still be able to indulge in delicious food for a happier, healthier and longer life such as . . . CREAMY CRAB and RICOTTA OMELETTE with SLICED AVOCADO GRILLED HALLOUMI and KALE SALAD with TAHINI YOGHURT DRESSING STEAK BURGER with MATURE CHEDDAR, TOMATO and AVOCADO CAULIFLOWER STEAKS and CRUMBLED FETA, ZA'ATAR and CHILLI__________________'A must have for every household' Professor Dame Sue Bailey, the Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges'Revolutionary' Richard Thompson, former physician to HRH Queen Elizabeth'This book has the power to make millions of people healthier and happier.' Andy Burnham, former Secretary of State for Health

  • by Justin Warner
    £17.49

    Feast your way through the world of Marvel Comics with celebrity chef Justin Warner in Marvel Eat the Universe: The Official Cookbook.

  • - Simple and Delicious Low-Carb, High-Fat Recipes for Your Ketogenic Lifestyle
    by Pamela Ellgen
    £13.49

    Keeping up with ketosis has never been easier, with these build-your-own superfood bowls for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

  • - Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
    by Christy Harrison
    £10.99 - 11.99

    Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating.

  • - 100+ Quick and Easy Recipes for stage 1 and 2 After Gastric Bypass Surgery
    by John Carter
    £12.99 - 21.49

  • by Herbert M Shelton
    £12.49 - 22.49

  • - 84 Delicious Low-Carb Plant-Based, Egg & Dairy Recipes For A Ketogenic Diet (Nutrition Guide)
    by Lydia Miller
    £17.49 - 22.49

  • by Jerry Thomas
    £8.99 - 16.49

  • - The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook
    by K T Crownhill
    £17.49 - 24.49

  • by Harry Craddock
    £17.49 - 24.99

  • - 101 Low-Carb Recipes For A 100% Plant-Based Ketogenic Diet (Recipe-Only Edition)
    by Lydia Miller
    £18.99 - 22.49

  • by Okakura Kakuz_
    £9.49

    An enlightening account of how the Japanese tea ceremony influences so much of Japanese life and culture.

  • - Healing Recipes to Support Your Body During Cancer Treatment and Recovery
    by Tamara Green & Sarah Grossman
    £14.99

    From two experts in cancer care cooking comes an informative, inspiring and empowering guide that will educate cancer patients and their caregivers about the healing power of food.

  • by Ian Theasby & Henry Firth
    £7.49

    As seen on ITV's Living on the Veg 'The vegan Jamie Olivers.' The Times Save the Planet and Feel Amazing

  • by Maria Borelius
    £8.99

    NUMBER ONE SWEDISH BESTSELLER The anti-inflammatory plan that will change your life.

  • - Japanese Comfort Food
    by Yoshio Saito
    £25.49

  • - 100 Quick and Healthy Recipes
    by Joe Wicks
    £15.49

    Easy and quick 30-minute recipes from Britain's best-loved healthy cook, Joe Wicks

  • - Over 50 Bubbly Cocktail Recipes with Prosecco, Champagne, and other Sparkling Wines
    by Pippa Guy
    £8.99

  • - Quick, Healthy, Midweek Meals Using Your Instant Pot or Other Multi-functional Cookers
    by Catherine Atkinson
    £7.99

    This book will tell you everything you need to know to really make the most of your Instant Pot multi cooker.

  • - Recipes, Techniques, and Stories from Our French Cooking School
    by Marjorie Taylor
    £28.49

    Part cookbook and part storybook of a family's life in France, The Cook's Atelier combines classic French recipes, step-by-step instructions on technique, and narratives of living in French wine country from mother-and-daughter duo Marjorie Taylor and Kendall Smith Franchini

  • - Brewing for Flavor and Balance
    by Jennifer Talley
    £11.99

  • by Tim Spector & Justine Pattison
    £8.99

    Lose weight and improve your health with delicious recipes and an easy-to-follow 28 day plan, with a foreword by Professor Tim Spector.

  • by Melissa Hemsley
    £16.99

    Featuring supermarket ingredients, simple methods, and tips and tricks to make no-fuss great food, Eat Happy is designed to see you through the whole week - tempting breakfasts to family dinners and lunches, as well as party food, snacks, baking, desserts, drinks, and simple, healthier versions of takeaway favourites.

  • - The why, the how, and everything you need to make going vegan easy
    by Veganuary
    £11.99

    A short guide to going vegan - the why, the what and the how.

  • - A Global Anthropology of Place and Taste
    by Marion Demossier
    £18.49 - 97.49

    Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social and cultural world of Burgundy wines and demystifies the terroir ideology to provide a unique long-term ethnographic analysis of what lies behind the concept in Burgundy, raising important questions about the future of quality wine in a global era.

  • - Simple Recipes for Ultimate Mind-Body Balance
    by Jasmine Hemsley
    £21.99

    140 delicious recipes to bring the concept of Ayurveda into your daily life.

  • - A Gazetteer of Scotch Whisky
    by Charles MacLean
    £13.99 - 14.99

    New edition of the essential handbook for all whisky lovers

  • - How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
    by Garth & MD Davis
    £9.49

    A "surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers [an] ... examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, [arguing that] it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight"--

  • - How to Live, Love and Eat the Italian Way
    by Kamin Mohammadi
    £9.49

  • - Real Food for Hungry Sailors
    by Fiona Sims
    £15.99

    For anyone with a tiny galley kitchen, there's good news: no more bland leftovers aboard. These delicious and easy recipes, all made with minimum fuss and maximum flavour, will allow you to spoil yourself in harbour and keep things simple at sea - not to mention rustle up a mean rum punch.

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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