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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 recipe can be as beautiful as a poem"
    by Annabel Abbs
    £7.99 - 11.99

    Eliza Acton, despite having never before boiled an egg, became one of the world's most successful cookery writers. Her story is fascinating, uplifting and inspiring. With recipes that leap to life from the page, The Language of Food explores the enduring struggle for female freedom, the creativity and quiet joy of cooking and the poetry of food.

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    by Mary Berry
    £19.49

    'I'm excited to share over 120 irresistible, no-fuss recipes that I hope will bring happiness into your kitchen. Each beautifully photographed dish celebrates the delicious ingredients and flavours I love, and which make cooking at home such a joy.'In this brand-new tie-in book to the BBC series, Love to Cook, Mary Berry will help you see your meals in an entirely new light. Every recipe is infused with her love of simple home cooking and fresh ingredients that feed the body and mind. Whether you're trying your hand at Mary's fragrant Kashmiri chicken curry or baking her mouth-watering Lemon limoncello pavlova, it's hard to beat the unique pleasure of making a dish from scratch and enjoying food with family and friends.

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    by Gabriella Garofano Cannella & Nana Surameli
    £11.49

  • - 87 Recipes for Cooking and Loving the National Dish of Canada
    by Chef Pierre
    £9.99

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    by Maggie Knox
    £8.99

    'An utterly adorable, pitch-perfect romance'Taylor Jenkins Read, author of Daisy Jones and The SixWhen chef Charlie Goodwin gets hit on the head on the L.A. set of her reality baking show, she loses a lot more than consciousness; she also loses her ability to taste and smell - both critical to her success as show judge. Meanwhile, Charlie's identical twin, Cass, is frantically trying to hold her own life together back in their quaint mountain hometown while running the family's bustling bakery and dealing with her ex, who won't get the memo that they're over.With only days until Christmas, a desperate Charlie asks Cass to do something they haven't done since they were kids: switch places. Looking for her own escape from reality, Cass agrees. But temporarily trading lives proves more complicated than they imagined, especially when rugged firefighter Jake Greenman and gorgeous Physician Assistant Miguel Rodriguez are thrown into the mix. Will the twins' identity swap be a recipe for disaster, or does it have all the right ingredients for getting their lives back on track?Readers love The Holiday Swap:'A feel good story, romance, Christmas, dogs and cake! What more could you ask for?' - 5 STARS'A perfect mix of fun and romance!' - 5 STARS'A delightful festive read with drama that will pull you in' - 5 STARS'A glorious holiday adventure with a dash of romance and sibling love . . . Great fun!' - 5 STARS'Delightfully entertaining and thoroughly addictive . . . the perfect winter romance to curl up with this Christmas, with an ending worthy of a Hallmark movie' - 5 STARS

  • by Sophia Marchesi
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    by Tee Books & Fantasteyinc Print
    £17.49

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    by Ainsley Harriott
    £15.49

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    - The ten-year anniversary edition
    by Sally Butcher
    £19.49

    Veggiestan, 'the land of vegetables' refers to the Middle Eastern region that merits such a name; a region that is bubbling, simmering and bursting with vegetarian traditions and recipes - much like this book. This ten-year anniversary edition will sit alongside other classics of Vegetarian food writing, such as Persiana.

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    - Cute Cakes and Bakes to Make Every Occasion Joyful
    by Kim-Joy
    £15.49

    The third and biggest book yet from cake baking and decorating TV star, Kim-Joy

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    - Recipes and Wee Stories from the Scottish Islands
    by Coinneach MacLeod
    £18.99

    In The Hebridean Baker, Coinneach shares both his fabulous recipes and fascinating stories of island life, offering a true taste of Scotland's wild and windswept Outer Hebrides

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    by Sarah Flower
    £8.99 - 9.49

    Save money, save time and eat healthily.

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    - Modern Plant-Based Comfort
    by Moby
    £23.49

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    - Over 80 delicious gluten-free and dairy-free recipes ready in minutes
    by James Wythe
    £18.99

    Quick, easy and delicious flexitarian recipes you'll actually make! All gluten-, dairy- and egg-free (mostly plant-based).

  • - The Ultimate 50 Recipes to change the way you barbecue
    by Moore Jamie Moore
    £19.99 - 26.49

    A Step by Step Incredible Recipe Section with a Medley of Barbecue Rubs, Marinades, and Sauces Designed

  • - Easy, Delicious, and Healthy Recipes for Your Crock-Pot Express Multi-Cooker
    by Janet Cole
    £15.99

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    by King Arthur Baking Company
    £23.99

    With gorgeous new photography, King Arthur's foolproof recipes and clear, encouraging directions empower bakers to make beautifully delicious cookies.

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    - 100 Healthy and Delicious Recipes
    by Courtney Black
    £11.99

    A healthy recipe book with food you'll really want to eat!

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    - Delicious for you, good for the planet
    by Miguel Barclay
    £13.49

    Over 80 delicious, planet-friendly recipes.

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    - From The Viscount's Mushroom Miniatures and The Royal Wedding Oysters to Debutante Punch and The Duke's Favorite Gooseberry Pie, 100 Dazzling Recipes Inspired by Bridgerton
    by Lex Taylor
    £13.49

    Dine like the lords and ladies and bring the high society meals and treats home with these 100 delicious recipes inspired by Netflix's most-watched series of all time-Bridgerton.

  • - Food Inspired by New York's Finest
    by Bomer Johny Bomer
    £11.99 - 18.49

  • - 1000 Day Plant Based Diet for Beginners Meal Plan: The Complete Anti-Inflammatory Recipe Book
    by Katie Banks
    £22.99

  • - A Beginner's 3-Week Step-by-Step Guide With Curated Recipes and a 7-Day Meal Plan
    by Larry Jamesonn
    £10.99

  • - 1000-Day Quick, Easy and Delicious Recipes for the Beginners and Advanced Users
    by Vickie Lilly
    £20.99

  • - A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Managing Lymphedema Through Nutrition With Curated Recipes and a Meal Plan
    by Brandon Gilta
    £10.99

    Secondary lymphedema affects one out of a thousand Americans, making it the most common cause of diseases in the said number. The disease has another type, primary lymphedema, which is the rarer type and occurs in 1 of 100,000 Americans. Moreover, this disease is also associated with cancer. One out of five women who are breast cancer survivors is most likely to develop lymphedema. Lymphedema is a disease characterized by the accumulation of lymphatic fluid around the body. It causes swelling in different body parts, making the tissue and skin to change.It is divided into two categories: (1) primary lymphedema, which is genetic, and (2) secondary lymphedema, which can be resulted from injury, insult, or blockade to the lymphatic system.Generally, the symptoms of lymphedema include extreme edema, scaly and thick skin with bumps and blisters, and fluid leaks.Lymphedema is a developing disease and occurs in four stages: latency, spontaneous, spontaneously irreversible, lymphatic elephantiasis.The diagnosis and treatment of lymphedema is an intricate process. And patients should first seek the advice of a primary healthcare provider to assess the perfect steps in treating lymphedema.However, it is known that there is no cure for this disease, and the treatment goes on for the rest of your life. Throughout the treatment, the patients are advised to learn the basics of infection prevention, self MLD, compression garments use, exercise, and weight control.To help possible lymphedema patients, this guide will show you the "weight control" aspect of patient education.Everything you need to find out about lymphedema and the diet involving it is enumerated below. These include questions like:¿ What is lymphedema?¿ What are the causes of lymphedema?¿ What are its symptoms?¿ How is it diagnosed and treated?¿ What can I do if I have lymphedema?¿ What lifestyle changes do I need to engage in when on this diet?¿ What foods are in and what is out in the lymphedema diet?

  • - Your Guide to Getting Healthy and Improving Your Mood (16pt Large Print Edition)
    by Louisa Grandin Sylvia
    £21.49

  • - A Japanese Cookbook Filled with Easy Japanese Recipes for Simple Japanese Cooking
    by Booksumo Press
    £9.49

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    - 100+ Down-Home Recipes for the Modern Cook
    by Kelsey Barnard Clark
    £16.99

    A modern take on Southern cooking with 100+ accessible recipes and lifestyle tips, from 2016 TOP CHEF winner and Fan Favorite Kelsey Barnard Clark.

  • by David Locatelli
    £18.99 - 27.49

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    - Recipes and reading to suit each season
    by Kate Young
    £18.99

    Kate Young returns with a book about eating and reading through the seasons.

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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