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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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  • - 550 Days Easy & Popular Morning Meals, Soups, Seafoods, Appetizers, Desserts, Vegetables, Salads, Curries, and Snacks Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users
    by Gloria Shaw
    £18.99

  • - Understanding the Connection Between the Earth and Your Health
    by Penny Kelly
    £26.49

  • - Therapeutic Effects of a Low Carb Diet, Learn How to Prevent and How to Cure Cancer
    by Toma Radu
    £8.99

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    by Gail Johnson
    £11.49

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    - Eating for Microbiome Balance, Gut Happiness, and Digestive Health
    by Krystyna Houser
    £22.99

    A seasonal cookbook geared toward home cooks contending with SIBO and IBS, as well as toward readers interested in learning more about how various foods affect digestive health.

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    - A Practical Guide to Cooking Grains, Beans, Seeds, and Legumes
    by Abra Berens
    £19.49

    Grains are the easiest, healthiest, and most exciting stars on your table! GRIST is the only grain and legume cookbook you need, with substantial reference information and more than 300 inspired and approachable recipes and variations. It's full of good writing, wonderful, simple recipes, and beautiful photography and illustration.

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    - How, Why, and When We Eat Flowers
    by Monica Nelson
    £19.99

    A beautiful and illuminating guide to the use and cultural history of edible flowers, featuring gorgeous original photography, simple recipes and preparation methods, and thoughtful essays on eating flowers by leading voicesThis stunning guide to edible flowers--conceived by Monica Nelson, the founding creative and photo director of the influential journal Wilder Quarterly, and Adrianna Glaviano, a noted food and lifestyle photographer--is packed with information and features lush original photography. Organizing more than 100 flowers alphabetically by their common name, the book offers in each entry handy reference notes including the flower’s Latin name, its general flavor profile, its origins, and which parts of the plant are edible, all accompanied by a vibrant photographic portrait. Punctuated by simple recipes and short, essayistic moments written by a diverse roster of celebrated chefs, artists, and writers recalling the use of edible flowers in their creative and gastronomic histories, Edible Flowers is both a practical primer and a delightful read.

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    - Stories and Recipes from a Neighborhood Oyster Bar
    by Jeremy Sewall
    £21.99

    Award-winning chef Jeremy Sewall brings his popular Boston and Portsmouth oyster bar, Row 34, to the page with more than 120 recipes for the home cook.

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    - Easy, Feel-Good Recipes for Every Day
    by Jean-Philippe Cyr
    £15.99

    75+ easy, comforting, and oh-so-delicious vegan recipes for every home cook—from the bestselling author of The Buddhist Chef.Jean-Philippe Cyr—vegan chef, blogger, and bestselling cookbook author—is back with even more delicious vegan recipes. Inspired by the comfort foods he enjoyed cooking with his grandmother while growing up, his classical culinary training, as well as his travels around the world, The Buddhist Chef’s Vegan Comfort Cooking will become your go-to vegan cookbook for every day of the week.Whether you are a long-time vegan or just looking to add more meat- and dairy-free meals to your rotation, these veganized-classic recipes are ones you’ll return to time and again. Start your day right with vegan Frittatas. Snack on some hearty No-Crab Cakes or Lentil-Stuffed Buns. Enjoy nostalgic favorites like Vegan Cheese Fondue, French Onion Soup, or Tofu Ham with Pineapple. Transform tempeh into delicious Tempeh Burgers, munch on a Vegan Philly Cheesesteak Sandwich, or simplify family classics with the One-Pot Lasagna.  You can even treat yourself to veganized Crème Brûlée, Upside-Down Pear Cake, or Brownies. With recipes perfect for a quick weeknight family dinner or an impressive weekend spread for your vegan and non-vegan friends alike,  The Buddhist Chef’s Vegan Comfort Cooking will satisfy any mealtime craving.

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    - Simple, Balanced Cooking for Real Life
    by Anna Pippus
    £15.99

    A cookbook and culinary toolkit of more than 100 recipes to get affordable, plant-based family meals on the table—in no time flat.For many years, Anna Pippus found herself exhausted at the thought of coming up with what to make for dinner every night, until finally she changed how she tackled cooking forever. In The Vegan Family Cookbook, Anna shares the approach she developed to eliminate her mealtime dread: daily cooking themes. Mondays are pasta, Tuesdays are bowls, Wednesdays are one-pot meals, and on Thursdays, it''s all about stir-fries.  Anna’s simple yet flavourful recipes have short ingredients lists and streamlined preparations. Kids will love Peanut Butter Banana Waffles and Mac and Cheesy with Broccoli (to name only a few!), while adults and parents will appreciate fuss-free takes on classics, such as Corn Soup with Sneaky Red Lentils, Lighter Kale Pesto Pasta, and Crispy Sweet and Sticky Tofu. The Vegan Family Cookbook is also filled with scrumptious ideas for breakfast, lunch, and snack time, to round out this family-friendly collection.  Anna not only shows us what to cook, but how to cook nutritious and delicious vegan food, too. The Vegan Family Cookbook is filled with foundational cooking building blocks, like how to ensure your vegan dishes include enough flavour and texture and how to make soup without a recipe. She shares her mix-and-match approach to building bowls, complete with her family’s go-to combinations. In everyday life, we need practical, adaptable meals that come together easily. With this book at your side, you''ll become a resourceful home cook, confidently feeding your family the best of what nature has to offer every day of the week.

  • - 70 Easy Veggie Recipes For Classic And Modern Food From Thailand
    by Emma Yang
    £12.49

  • by Julia Patel
    £10.99

  • - 70 Easy Veggie Recipes For Classic And Modern Food From Asian
    by Emma Yang
    £12.49

  • - Yummy Crock Pot Recipes The Whole Family Will Love ( slow cooker instant pot, good crockpot meals, best crock pot recipes, crockpot cookbooks, slow cook book
    by Pamela James
    £8.99

  • - A Complete Guide to Master Your Wood Pellet Grill & Smoker and Improve Your Skills with Easy and Tasty Recipes, Essential Tricks & Tips
    by A. Baron Joseph A. Baron
    £12.49 - 16.49

  • - Foolproof, Quick & Easy Air Fryer Oven Recipes for Beginners and Advanced Users
    by Amber Netting
    £14.99

  • - Enjoy Authentic North-African Cooking in Tunisian Style with Delicious Tunisian Recipes
    by Booksumo Press
    £9.49

  • - Learn How the Right Foods, Sleep, the Right Amount of Exercise, and Happiness Can Increase Your Metabolic Rate and Help Heal Your Broken Metabolism
    by Kate Deering
    £20.49

  • - Indoors or Outdoors, All Year Round
    by Charles Dowding
    £16.49

    Grow a variety of salad greens all year round in your garden, on your balcony or on a windowsill.

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    - 100 Sheet Pan, One Pot and 5-Ingredient Vegan Recipes
    by Olivia Biermann
    £14.49

    YouTube blogger and bestselling author unveils 100 new vegan recipes to help you master cost-effective plant-based cookery, with simple ingredients and minimal equipment.

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    by Christine Craggs-Hinton
    £9.49

    Dietary advice, recipes and practical insights to help reduce inflammation, manage fatigue and ease pain.

  • - 1000-Day Easy and Affordable PowerXL Grill Air Fryer Combo Recipes to Fry, Grill, Bake, and Roast for Smart People on A Budget
    by Blark Anchy Blark
    £12.49 - 22.49

  • - Breakfast Smoothie, Body Cleansing Smoothies, Digestive Smoothies, Kid-Friendly Smoothies, Low-Fat Smoothies, Best Protein Smoothies, Easy to Make Weight loss Smoothies
    by Sheldon Miller
    £18.99

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    - Meal Plans, Expert Guidance, and 100 Recipes to Get You Started
    by Elena Paravantes
    £13.49

  • - The Essential Diet Recipes to Prevent, Cure and Recover from Peptic Ulcer and Stay Healthy
    by Dr Sean Esther
    £16.99

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    by Penelope Velez
    £110.99

  • - 600 Delicious Fast and Easy Pegan Diet Recipes Combining the Best of Paleo and Vegan Diet for Lifelong Health
    by Cantor Cynthia L. Cantor
    £16.49 - 22.49

  • - Beginners Guide to Using Herbal Medicine to Prevent, Treat and Heal Ilness with Natural Antibiotics and Antivirals
    by Thomas Watson
    £15.49 - 26.49

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    by Michelle Babb
    £15.49

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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