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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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    - The 30 Best Recipes
    by Johana Amsilli
    £10.99

    30 delicious recipes in a Nutella-shaped book for all the fans of the famous spread.

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    by Philip Hasheider
    £14.99

    Expert Philip Hasheider shows you how to turn your hard-earned hunt into delicious cuisine. Truly avid hunters are always looking for ways to get the most out of their game and maximize their yield. Look no further: this book offers essential tips and background information, as well as coveted recipes, for hunters, chefs, and food lovers alike. The Hunter''s Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish gives hunters all the information they need for processing and preparing their harvested game to create the most flavorful and creative meals. The book takes you from field dressing to skinning and cutting the carcass, to preserving and storing, to making sausage and cured meat, to preparing delicious, well-rounded meals for the dinner table. It offers detailed step-by-step instructions, complete with illustrations and full-color photography, as well as a variety of mouthwatering recipes. Hasheider covers all the major game and fish species, including large game, such as deer, moose, elk, bighorn sheep, wild boar, bear, and alligator; small game, such as rabbit, raccoon, opossum, squirrel, muskrat, beaver, turtle, armadillo, groundhog, woodchuck, and snakes; upland game birds like grouse, quail, partridge, pheasant, dove, pigeon, squab, and wild turkey; a range of ducks, mergansers, geese, and other waterfowl; and a variety of fresh- and saltwater fish species like bass, catfish, eel, marlin, perch, pike, salmon, sturgeon, sunfish, swordfish, trout, tuna, walleye, whitefish, and more. With its holistic approach to every aspect of wild game preparation, The Hunter’s Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish is a book no hunter will want to be without.

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    by Anh Vu
    £19.49

    Easy, vibrant street-food inspired Vietnamese recipes that you can cook at home from street-food entrepreneurs Van and AnhVietnamese food is well-known these days - think cleansing noodle soups, succulent caramelized pork, spicy herb-filled baguettes, zingy salads, crunchy pickles, perfect dipping sauces, and moreish sweet coffee.

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    by Charlotte Pike
    £10.99

    The Hungry Student Cookbook, penned by the talented Charlotte Pike, is an essential guide for every student who finds themselves missing the comforts of home-cooked meals. Published in 2013 by Quercus Publishing, this book is a must-have for those venturing into the world of cooking for the first time. As the title suggests, this cookbook is designed specifically for students, offering a plethora of easy-to-follow, delicious, and budget-friendly recipes. It's more than just a cookbook; it's a survival guide for those who are hungry for home-style meals. Pike's genre of choice, cookery, is evident in her clear instructions and handy tips. In short, The Hungry Student Cookbook is a comprehensive guide that makes cooking approachable and enjoyable, even for novices. So, if you're a student looking to expand your culinary skills or simply missing home-cooked meals, this book from Quercus Publishing is a must-read.

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    - 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook [A Cookbook]
    by Kristen Miglore
    £21.99

    There are good recipes and there are great ones-and then, there are genius recipes. Genius recipes surprise us and make us rethink the way we cook. They might involve an unexpectedly simple technique, debunk a kitchen myth, or apply a familiar ingredient in a new way. They're handed down by luminaries of the food world and become their legacies. And, once we've folded them into our repertoires, they make us feel pretty genius too. In this collection are 100 of the smartest and most remarkable ones. There isn't yet a single cookbook where you can find Marcella Hazan's Tomato Sauce with Onion and Butter, Jim Lahey's No-Knead Bread, and Nigella Lawson's Dense Chocolate Loaf Cake-plus dozens more of the most talked about, just-crazy-enough-to-work recipes of our time. Until now. These are what Food52 Executive Editor Kristen Miglore calls genius recipes. Passed down from the cookbook authors, chefs, and bloggers who made them legendary, these foolproof recipes rethink cooking tropes, solve problems, get us talking, and make cooking more fun. Every week, Kristen features one such recipe and explains just what's so brilliant about it in the James Beard Award-nominated Genius Recipes column on Food52. Here, in this book, she compiles 100 of the most essential ones-nearly half of which have never been featured in the column-with tips, riffs, mini-recipes, and stunning photographs from James Ransom, to create a cooking canon that will stand the test of time. Once you try Michael Ruhlman's fried chicken or Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi's hummus, you'll never want to go back to other versions. But there's also a surprising ginger juice you didn't realize you were missing and will want to put on everything-and a way to cook white chocolate that (finally) exposes its hidden glory. Some of these recipes you'll follow to a T, but others will be jumping-off points for you to experiment with and make your own. Either way, with Kristen at the helm, revealing and explaining the genius of each recipe, Genius Recipes is destined to become every home cook's go-to resource for smart, memorable cooking-because no one cook could have taught us so much.

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    by Brian Wansink
    £10.99

    Every day, we each make around 200 decisions about eating. But studies have shown that 90 percent of these decisions are made without any conscious choice. This title lays bare the facts about our true eating habits to show that awareness of our patterns can allow us to lose weight effectively and without serious changes to our lives.

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    by Jeff Cox
    £14.49

    Offers wine connoisseurs, gardeners, and home winemakers the techniques and varieties. With illustrated instructions, this book helps readers learn how to choose and prepare a vineyard site; construct sturdy and effective trellising systems; plant, prune, and harvest the right grapes for a particular climate; press, ferment, age, and bottle wine.

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    - Celebrating the Ultimate Cooking Experience
    by Big Green Egg
    £21.99

    The cookbook EGGheads have been waiting for that features over 160 recipes designed specifically for the ceramic cooker, the Big Green Egg.

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    - California Cooking from Venice Beach
    by Travis Lett
    £21.99

    This standout cookbook features 125 of the rustic and utterly delicious salads, toasts, pizzas, vegetable and grain dishes, pastas, fish and meat mains, and desserts that have had fans clamoring for a table since the restaurant burst onto the scene. More than 150 colour photographs from acclaimed photographer Michael Graydon and stylist Nikole Herriott, plus a tactile, artisanal package, evoke the vibe of Venice Beach and the Gjelina (the G's silent) aesthetic, and showcase the beautiful plated food of Lett's ingredient-based, vegetable-centric cooking. This is the cookbook for the way we want to cook and eat now.

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    - Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
    by PhD Kallas
    £17.49

    Edible Wild Plants provides what you really need to know to have your own wild food adventures. Whether a beginner or advanced wild food aficionado, gardener, chef, botanist, nutritionist, scientist, or a dieter with special needs, this book is for you. Author John Kallas gives you unprecedented details, maps, simple explanations, and multiple close-up photographs of every plant covered at every important stage of growth. You learn that a plant is not only edible but when, why, and how it is. He can turn you into a successful, well-fed, and happy forager anywhere in North America. For more information on this book, other publications by John Kallas, and wild foods in general, see www.wildfoodadventures.com

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    - A Cookbook
    by Diana Kennedy
    £21.99

    Combining her three bestselling and classic books--The Cuisines of Mexico, Mexican Regional Cooking, and The Tortilla Book-- in one volume, Diana Kennedy has refreshed the classics and added more than thirty new recipes from different regions of Mexico.More than twenty-five years ago, when Diana Kennedy first published The Cuisines of Mexico, knowledge and appreciation of authentic Mexican cooking were in their infancy. But change was in the air. Home cooks were turning to Julia Child for an introduction to French cuisine and to Marcella Hazan for the tastes of Italy. Through Diana Kennedy, they discovered a delicious and highly developed culinary tradition they barely knew existed and she became recognized as the authority on Mexican food.Whether you turn to this book for the final word on tamales, recipes for tasty antojitos to serve with drinks, or superb tacos, you'll find there's no better teacher of Mexican food. How enviable to attempt Calzones del Diablo (yes, the Devil's Pants) for the first time, and what a pleasure to succumb to Diana's passion for Mexican food!

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    - Rustic Family Cooking from Italy's Undiscovered South
    by Rosetta Costantino
    £30.49

    Recipes for easily accessible, fresh-from-the-garden Italian food from a Calabrian native and "bountiful good cook" (The Atlantic).

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    by Sara Lewis
    £14.99

    Following on from the phenomenal success of our previous slow cooker titles, Slow Cooker: 500 Recipes is the ultimate collection of slow cooker recipes

  • by Tiffany Collins
    £15.49

    The design director for "Southern Living" magazine shows how to replicate the bistro sandwich experience with 200 recipes designed for the home panini maker.

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    - A Three-Star Chef Makes It Simple
    by Marco Pierre White
    £16.99

    Marco serves up more than 100 delicious recipes - simple, fast and fun - and shows how to bring big flavours with the help of bottles, packets and jars in his store-cupboard.

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    by Jorge Chavarro
    £11.49

    Two of the lead doctors on the renowned Nurses' Health Study reveal exciting new information from the study--choosing certain kinds of foods and avoiding others can actually improve a woman's fertility without drugs or expensive treatments

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    by Sheila Mills
    £17.49

    Offers tasty recipes, stories, and guidance for outdoor adventures. This book contains more than 250 delicious recipes. It features healthy, gourmet recipes.

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    by D Leader
    £13.49

    Paninis have traversed the continent from Italy to grace discerning restaurants, high-end cafes and sandwich bars everywhere. This book supplies you with 70 delicious recipes for your home-made paninis and does not confine itself to only Italian recipes. It covers ham, turkey, Swiss cheese and a hoisin-lime dressing.

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    - The Quality, the Taste, the Terroir
    by Nicholas Joly
    £10.99

    States that even expensive wines, made under strictly regulated controls and standards, are tainted by the use of pesticides and fertilizers, and manipulated in the cellar through the use of osmosis and the additions of aromatic yeasts and enzymes. This book provides information on the methods used to counter such trends.

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    - A Kind of British Cooking: Part II
    by Fergus Henderson
    £15.49

    A collection of recipes which presents carnivorous classics such as deep-fried rabbit, pigeon pie, venison liver and pressed pig's ear. This volume introduces us to the world of breads and sweets - sourdough loaves and lardy cakes, puddings such as chocolate baked Alaska, burnt sheep's milk yoghurt and goat's curd cheesecake, and ice creams.

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    - Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation
    by The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante
    £15.49

    Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning offers more than 250 easy and enjoyable recipes featuring locally grown and minimally refined ingredients. It is an essential guide for those who seek healthy food for a healthy world.

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    - 50 To-die-for Recipes for New York-style Cheescake
    by A Rosen
    £14.99

    Junior's Restaurant, which bakes cheesecakes, has been wooing New Yorkers since it first opened its doors in 1950. This work offers up their recipes ranging from the cheesecake that started it all, to flavour twists like Banana Fudge, Rocky Road and Pumpkin Mousse, to little cheesecakes meant just for one (Little Fellas), and more.

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    - Traditional Mexican Cooking for Aficionados: A Cookbook
    by Diana Kennedy
    £21.99

    This indispensable cookbook, an instant classic when first published in 1989, is now back in print with a brand-new introduction from the most celebrated authority on Mexican cooking, Diana Kennedy. The culmination of more than fifty years of living, traveling, and cooking in Mexico, The Art of Mexican Cooking is the ultimate guide to creating authentic Mexican food in your own kitchen, with more than 200 beloved recipes as well as evocative illustrations.The dishes included, favorites from all the regions of Mexico, range from sophisticated to pure and simple, but they all share an intrinsic depth of taste. Aficionados will go to great lengths to duplicate the authentic dishes (and Kennedy tells them exactly how), but here too is a wealth of less complicated recipes for the casual cook in search of the unmistakable flavors of a bold cuisine.Kennedy shares the secrets of true Mexican flavor: balancing the piquant taste of chiles with a little salt and acid, for instance, or charring them to round out their flavor; broiling tomatoes to bring out their character, or adding cumin for a light accent. By using Kennedy’s kitchen wisdom and advice, and carefully selecting produce that is now readily available in most American markets, cooks with an appetite for Mexican cuisine–and Kennedy devotees old and new–can at last serve and enjoy real Mexican food.“This is the ultimate in Mexican cooking from the world’s leading authority.” —Paula Wolfert, author of The Cooking of South-West France

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    - Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones
    by Anthony Bourdain
    £10.99

    Intended for the fans of Anthony Bourdain, this is a collection of his journalism. Containing stories from his worldwide misadventures, it talks about scrounging for eel in the backstreets of Hanoi, the unglamorous aspects of making television, calling for the head of raw food activist Woody Harrelson, and confessing to lobster-killing guilt.

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    by Mireille Guiliano
    £9.49

    Experience the joie de vivre with this revolutionary non-diet book that is changing the way women eat and live everywhere How do French women do it? This is the book that unlocks the simple secrets of 'the French paradox' - how to enjoy food and stay slim and healthy.

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    by Arthur Agatston
    £9.49

    A diet proven to be good for your figure, your heart and your health

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    - 400 Recipes for Poultry, Meat, Seafood, and Vegetables [A Cookbook]
    by Jim Tarantino
    £14.99

    In this revised and expanded edition of his bestselling book, grilling guru Jim Tarantino explains the art and science of marinades, brines, and rubs and presents more than 400 savory, sweet, and spicy recipes. Featuring 150 brand-new recipes and sections on brines, cures, and glazes, this marinating bible is chock-full of ideas for preparing moist and flavorful beef, poultry, vegetables, and more—both indoors and out—including: Apple Cider Brine, Zesty Jalapeño Lime Glaze, Tapenade Marinade, Ancho-Espresso Dry Rub, Grilled Iberian Pork Loin with Blood Orange–Sherry Sauce, and Vietnamese Grilled Lobster Salad.Marinades, Rubs, Brines, Cures & Glazes provides home cooks with hundreds of mouthwatering recipes and fail-safe techniques, so you can grill, steam, sauté, roast, and broil with confidence.

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    - A Compendium of Recipes and Cooking Lessons from San Francisco's Beloved Restaurant
    by Judy Rodgers
    £26.99

    For twenty-four years, in an odd and intimate warren of rooms, San Franciscans of every variety have come to the Zuni Cafe with high expectations and have rarely left disappointed.

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    by Madhur Jaffrey
    £28.49

    Rather than approaching vegetarianism from a dry, didactic standpoint, this major cookery book takes as its starting point the principle that vegetarian cooking is one of the most interesting, dynamic areas in food today and provides a collection of the very best vegetarian recipes the world's cuisines have to offer.

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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