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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 Pyramid
    £7.99

    A little collection of classic and contemporary gin cocktails.Go beyond the Gin & Tonic with over 55 classic and contemporary gin cocktail recipes. Whether you love sweet drinks or sour ones, quick and casual cocktails or something more impressive, The Little Book of Gin Cocktails can help you transform your favorite gin into something special.-    Learn your way around making gin-based martinis, from the perfect Classic Martini to cap off a great evening to drinks that are perfect for kicking off a boozy brunch, like the Espresso Gin-tini and the Breakfast Martini (complete with toast to garnish!)-    Master well-known staples like the Gin Rickey, the Negroni and the Tom Collins and then take a walk on the wild side with contemporary twists on gin's biggest hits like the Mango Rickey, the Lychee Negroni, and the Camomile Collins.-    Discover your new favorite gin-based drink along with tips and tricks for making it, right down to the type of glass it is traditionally served in (though we won't judge you if you get creative).Enjoy gin your way and delight the gin-lover in your life with this pocket-sized guide to gin recipes for every occasion.

  • by Robert Sikes
    £17.49 - 33.49

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    by Editors of Fox Chapel Publishing
    £10.99

    Before you head out on your next camping trip, flip through these pages, pick what you'll pack to eat, and discover the tasty convenience of make-ahead meals that the whole family will love! Featuring more than 100 camping recipes for grilled sandwiches, all-in-one dinners, savory sides, delicious s'mores, and so much more, Weekend Camping Cookbook is the ultimate guide to easily preparing and serving scrumptious meals in the great outdoors. From cast iron nachos and fire-roasted pickle wraps to carrot cake pancakes, baby stuffed peppers, and so much more, this complete camping cookbook features unique, out-of-the-box recipes that are easy to make and delicious to eat!

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    by Emelia Jackson
    £21.99

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    by Tom Walton
    £15.49

  • by Elida Adolphson
    £8.99

    Healthy Cooking Recipes: Eating Clean and Green Juices The Healthy Cooking Recipes book covers two diet plans, the Green Juice Diet and the Eating Clean Diet. Both of the health meal plans offer easy healthy recipes and makes preparing healthy foods to eat a breeze by following the recipe directions. You have enough quick healthy recipes to make plan healthy meals for weeks in advance. If your goal is to cook healthy meals you have a wide variety of healthy food recipes in this book. The first section of the Healthy Cooking Recipes book is on the Green Juice Diet with these chapters: What is the Green Juice Diet, Common Green Juice Diet Myths, Benefits of the Green Juice Diet, Helpful Tips for Dieting Success, Delicious and Nutritious Green Juice Recipes, and Your 7 Day Green Juicing Diet Meal Plan.

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    by Jef Aldrich
    £13.49

    Eat delicious snacks and game-friendly meals in between dice rolls and encounters with this easy-to-follow RPG themed cookbook perfect for every game group.

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    by Maggie Black
    £11.99

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    by Hugh Johnson
    £23.99

    Hugh Johnson, the world's best-selling and most loved wine writer, has written his memoirs as a stylish, intimate, and delightfully opinionated autobiographical tour through the world of wine.

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    - 90 Plant-Based Recipes for Homemade Sauces, Favorite Takeout and Dim Sum, and Everyday Meals
    by Maggie Zhu
    £15.49

    Chinese Homestyle Cooking presents exciting twists on authentic, vegan Northern Chinese cuisine, adapted for our busy lifestyles and Western kitchens.

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    - The Best Italian Ragouts, Pestos, Marinaras, and Other Cooked and Fresh Sauces for Every Type of Pasta Imaginable
    by Allan Bay
    £15.49

    The quick, easy, creative, and full-of-flavor sauces in The Complete Book of Pasta Sauces get you from here to dinner in a flash.

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    by Liz Lee Heinecke
    £15.49

    Show your little ones the ways of the Force, and the kitchen, with this cookbook filled with fun, simple, and delicious recipes for young Jedi!

  • by Anna Stockwell
    £23.49

    From a rising food star, a toast to the art of the dinner partyHosting a dinner party is a special kind of occasion. You welcome old and new friends into your home and gather around the table. You put out platters of food prepared just for that table of people, passing them around until everyone¿s had their fill. This sense of sharing and togetherness feeds more than just bellies. It is what helps us stay connected, form new relationships, and build lasting bonds with our chosen families. During socially distanced times, the perfect dinner party might have felt like a lost art, but in For the Table, up-and-coming food writer Anna Stockwell provides all the tools needed for bringing back the ritual of hosting memorable yet modern dinner parties.Stockwell has written a cookbook for a new way of entertaining that¿s simpler, better, healthier, and more fun. Organized by season and full of helpful hosting advice, Stockwell provides accessible and modern menus; each is built around two large platters to pass around the table and includes suggestions for no-recipe side dishes. Dinner parties don't have to be formal or fussy, or even a lot of work, to be celebratory and gratifying. This book teaches you how to plan and prepare great-tasting and impressive-looking menus that are easy to pull off, as well as offers expert advice on toasts, prep-ahead strategies, and tips on handling guest lists and dietary restrictions. With its mix of innovative food presentation and old-fashioned, homestyle technique, For the Table is a testament to the art of the dinner party and looks forward to the festive dinner gatherings of the future.

  • - 600 Effortless Air Fryer Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users
    by William Jenson William
    £12.49 - 25.49

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    - The Complete Guide to Streetside Dining in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and Other Areas
    by Chawadee Nualkhair
    £11.49

    For many visitors, traveling to Thailand means one thing: enjoying the delicious street food. In Thailand's Best Street Food, freelance writer and food blogger Chawadee Nualkhair details everything that visitors need to know to track down the most delectable dishesno matter where they are hidden.Most people think Bangkok is the only place to find great Thai street food, but Nualkhair ate her way across the country and found incredible food stalls everywhere, from Phuket in the south to Chiang Mai in the north. Even seasoned travelers may find it difficult to identify the best venuesnever mind figuring out how and what to order. Fortunately for anyone bound for Thailand, Nualkhair draws on her vast experience to provide essential tips on locating food stalls in cities across the country, including:Directions on how to find a particular stallStreet maps for each sectorEach stall's specialtyServing options, beverages, and notable extrasWhether or not seating is availableInformation on bathroom facilitiesAs an added bonus, Nualkhair includes recipes for the 12 most popular Thai street food dishes adapted for the Western kitchen. Thai street food is one of today's hottest food trends, and Thailand's Best Street Food makes it easy for foodies to savor incredible Thai foodwherever their travels take them.

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    by Mary-Louise Rappazzo
    £25.49

  • - Annotated, Revised, and Edited by Prof. Spira
    by Arnold Ehret
    £12.49

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    £15.49

    If there is only one book meant for you and your mixer, this is the one! With KitchenAid, making cakes and pastries has never been easier!Discover 80 recipes for cakes and pastries to sweeten any time of the day, from breakfast to special occasions, not to mention brunch and afternoon tea.With your KitchenAid mixer, Liege waffles, ham croissants, sweet potato pancakes, raspberry macarons, iles flottantes, even Paris-Brest will turn any break into a moment of joy that is worthy of sharing!

  • by Kathryn Pauline
    £20.99

    A creative approach to seasonal cooking, A DISH FOR ALL SEASONS presents 26 adaptable recipes, each with four seasonal variations, for a total of more than 100 accessible recipes for creative weeknight cooking.This practical cookbook flips the script on recipe books organized by season. Instead of dedicated recipes to Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter—which would mean three quarters of the book goes unused for three quarters of the year—this book features 26 go-to recipes, each with four variations. Every dish includes a base recipe—such as a simple frittata, Panzanella salad, sheet pan dinner, or loaf cake—plus four adaptations based on the season. Readers will also find simple instructions and formulas for creating original dishes, giving them the tools they need to improvise based on the ingredients they have on hand. With a photograph to accompany all 100 dishes, this is a versatile, repertoire-building cookbook will be a go-to resource for home cooks looking to create delicious, healthy food all year long.SMART STRATEGY BOOK: This book teaches home cooks to cook creatively. With a base recipe, seasonal variations, and instructions for adapting the recipe using whatever ingredients are on hand, readers can choose to follow a seasonal recipe exactly, swap out an ingredient or two depending on what's available at their local market, or experiment with their own, totally original combinations.GREAT VALUE: With more than 100 go-to recipes, plus instructions and formulas that let readers experiment, this cookbook is a great value. Like DINNER'S IN THE OVEN and other weeknight books featuring lots of photography and simple recipes, the package is as appealing as the content.RECIPES WITH WIDE APPEAL: These are the kind of recipes that people actually cook on a regular basis—easy weekday staples such as oatmeal, hummus, quesadillas, sheet-pan dinners, penne pasta with meatballs—but with a seasonal twist.Perfect for:• Beginner cooks who want to master a few staple dishes• Home cooks of all skill levels looking for easy, creative weeknight recipes• Amateur chefs interested in updated basics• People who like to cook seasonally and shop at the local farmer's market

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    - Colourful vegan recipes to balance your body and energize your spirit
    by Annika Panotzki
    £15.49

    Deeply nourish and balance your life with the colours of nature.

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    - Delicious Recipes and Nutrition Plans to Achieve Your Goals
    by Renee McGregor
    £10.99

    THIS IS THE BOOK EVERY RUNNER NEEDS TO FUEL THEIR TRAINING-FROM AMATEUR TO ELITE ATHLETE

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    by Emiko Davies
    £16.99

    Cinnamon and Salt is a collection of recipes, stories and photographs that invites you to beautiful Venice through its beloved cicchetti.Cicchetti (pronounced chi-ke-tee) are little morsels; think of them as appetisers, aperitivo or hors d'oeuvres but cicchetti are undeniably, distinctly Venetian and a delicious nod to Venice's casual way of life.In Cinnamon and Salt, Italy-based food writer Emiko Davies delves into the rich, multicultural history of Venice and its unique cuisine, detailing more than sixty classic and modern recipes, from fried to sweet and from small plates to drinks.Try sweet and sour radicchio, the legendary fried meatballs, or creamy whipped cod on squares of polenta. Indulge in Venetian soft-shell crab before moving on to rose petal jam and sugar-coated fritters. You'll even find recipes for a spritz, a Bellini and a thick hot chocolate, and be let in on the secrets to creating your own authentic cicchetti.

  • by National Institute Food and Agriculture & United States Department of Agriculture
    £10.99

  • by Shawn Wells
    £22.49

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    by Rebecca Seal
    £15.49

    Introducing 'LEON Big Salads', a captivating book by Rebecca Seal. Published recently in 2023 by the renowned Octopus Publishing Group, this book is a delightful addition to your collection. As the title suggests, the book delves into the world of salads, bringing a fresh perspective on healthy eating. Rebecca Seal, an acclaimed author in the genre of culinary literature, masterfully guides you through a variety of salad recipes that are as delicious as they are nutritious. The book's publication year, 2023, marks it as a contemporary piece, ensuring the recipes and techniques are relevant to today's culinary landscape. Published by Octopus Publishing Group, a name synonymous with quality literature, 'LEON Big Salads' is a book that promises to be as enriching as it is enjoyable. The book is written in English.

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    - Super Simple Feasts for the Whole Family, Including Delicious Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes
    by Pyramid
    £14.99

    Get the most out of your slow cooker with 150 easy-to-assemble recipes (including vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and lighter options) for breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert.

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    - Over 100 Healthy Family Recipes
    by Joe Wicks
    £15.49

    I'm Joe Wicks, and it's my mission to help families everywhere eat better. Because eating well should be easy - for everyone.

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    by Nyanyika Banda
    £18.99

    Wakanda forever! Celebrate the flavors of Africa with this cookbook inspired by over fifty years of Black Panther comics.

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    - All-Fun, No-Fuss Food to Celebrate Eating Clean
    by Daphne Oz
    £23.99

    Bestselling author, Emmy Award-winning cohost of The Good Dish and the upcoming 8th season of FOX's hit series MasterChef Junior, and mother of four Daphne Oz shares her best tips for how to reward yourself, with 150 simply delicious recipes in a cookbook you'll return to again and again to eat clean, feel good, and have fun doing it all!Daphne Oz loves food. In fact, she's built her career around this love of exploring and enjoying the world, bite after wonderful bite. But she knows first-hand how endless indulging robs you of the truly memorable moments ? and makes it hard to stay healthy. On the other hand, restricting ourselves with too many rules means we stop enjoying mealtime and start missing out.With four young children and a busy career, Daphne is intimately familiar with how hard it can be to find the right balance in our health and fitness goals, especially when living a full life. In this engaging book, filled with useful tips and gorgeous photography to inspire health and happiness every day, Daphne shares the techniques she's used to get her mind, energy and body back on track after each pregnancy?without ever losing the joy of cooking, the fun of mealtime, and the stress-free pleasure of doing it intuitively. In the times when she's looking to bring her body back into balance, Daphne lives by just four simple rules that remove the guesswork from healthy eating and let us relax and enjoy our meals again, knowing we're making great choices. Those rules are:no glutenno refined sugarlimit dairytake the weekend off Eat Your Heart Out includes a range of simple-but-special, deliciously nourishing recipes likeGluten-Free Banana Pumpkin MuffinsBarbecue Pulled Chicken with Crispy Smashed Japanese YamsSpicy Crunchy Cauliflower Tacos with Ranch SlawFeel-Good Turkey MeatloafNori PopcornBanana BruleePistachio Dark Chocolate Energy TrufflesYour brain is your most important ally and most perilous foe on the journey toward long-term health and happiness, and Eat Your Heart Out equips readers to get their energy back, feel good and confident in their skin, and do it all while enjoying meals they love with people they love. Being healthy is a feeling of abundance, a chance to do and be all the things you want with your life. Daphne's plan is a flexible approach of ?and,? not ?or,? so you can say goodbye to choices that don't serve you and welcome all the pleasure that intuitively knowing how to feel good brings.

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    by Cathy Barrow
    £14.99

    A playful-yet-comprehensive cookbook with recipes for bagels, schmears, and other deli favourites.

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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