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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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  • - Great Flavor, Healthy Meals
    by Brigid Treloar
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    Learn how to prepare meals that are both healthy and tasty with the 40 recipes in this steaming cookbook!

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    by Niki Segnit
    £25.49

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    by Dr William Davis
    £13.49

    150 delicious wheat-free recipes for effortless weight loss and optimum healthWhen Dr William Davis developed the Wheat Belly plan he was unaware that his research would go on to change the health and well-being of millions of people looking to lose weight and find answers to their health issues.Now, on the back of that success and at the request of his fans, comes the first Wheat Belly Cookbook. Crammed with recipes for any time of day from easy breakfasts such as Grainless Granola, soups, salads and main courses to tempt your tastebuds and delicious wheat-free baking and desserts to satisfy the most discerning palate, the recipes in this book will help you shed the pounds and boost your vitality.So what are you waiting for? Join the wheat-free revolution from your kitchen and start feeling the benefits right away.

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    by Saiphin Moore
    £16.99

    Simple vegan and vegetarian Thai food from the founder of Rosa's Thai Cafe.

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    - My Moroccan Food
    by Nargisse Benkabbou
    £18.99

    Simple & inviting recipes that blend traditional Moroccan cuisine with a fresh, contemporary approach.

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    by Richard W. Bender
    £14.49

    Home winemaking is easy and fun for anyone with this collection of 148 creative recipes that forego specialty grapes and instead use a wide range of readily available fruits, vegetables, flowers, herbs to create combinations such as Black Currant Peach, Ginger Green Tea Sake, Orange Chocolate Habanero, and Vanilla Rose Petal.

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    - A Proven, Practical Program with Over 140 Easy, Delicious Recipes to Boost Energy and Mood, Lower Inflammation, Gain Strength, and Restore a Healthy Weight
    by Magdalena Wszelaki
    £18.99

    Millions of women suffer from the life-altering, often debilitating symptoms resulting from hormonal imbalances: stubborn weight gain, fatigue, brain fog, depression, insomnia, digestive issues, and more. The good news is that most of these conditions are reversible. Integrative hormone and nutrition expert Magdalena Wszelaki knows this firsthand. Developing hyperthyroidism and then Hashimoto's, adrenal fatigue, and estrogen dominance propelled her to leave a high-pressured advertising career and develop a new way of eating that would repair and keep her hormones working smoothly. Now symptom free, Magdalena shares her practical, proven knowledge so other women may benefit. Drawing on current research and the programs she has developed and used to help thousands of women, she offers clear, concise action plans for what to remove and add to our daily diet to regain hormonal balance, including guides for specific conditions and more than 125 easy-to-prepare, flavorful, and anti-inflammatory recipes that are free of gluten, dairy, soy, corn, and nightshades and low in sugar.Based on twenty hormone-supporting superfoods and twenty hormone-supporting super herbs?with modifications for Paleo, Paleo for Autoimmunity (AIP), anti-Candida, and low-FODMAP diets?these healing recipes include a terrific selection for everyday meals, from Sweet Potato and Sage Pancakes and Honey Glazed Tarragon Chicken to a Decadent Chocolate Cherry Smoothie. With make-ahead meals, under-thirty-minute recipes, and time-saving tips and techniques, Cooking for Hormone Balance emphasizes minimal effort for maximum results?a comprehensive food-as-medicine approach for tackling hormone imbalance and eating your way to better health.

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    - How Hidden Poisons in the Air, Water, Food, and Products We Use Are Destroying Our Health--AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO FIX IT
    by Joseph E. Pizzorno
    £9.49

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    by Gary Taubes
    £9.49

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    - Over 150 step-by-step foolproof recipes for your electric pressure cooker, slow cooker or Instant Pot (R). Fully authorised.
     
    £13.49

    Get dinner on the table in an instant or pop everything into a pot, enjoy your day and come home to a delicious, freshly made meal. We're all busier than ever and have less time to cook, but we also want to eat more healthily.

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    by Gambero Rosso
    £20.49

    The most authoritative annual guide to the very best Italian wines. The awards honour ecologically aware wine producers who are working with the environment, bestowing "Green" awards on those who create sustainable yields.

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    by Bloomsbury
    £8.99

    Food-focused travel guides for the world's most exciting citiesThis book is a food tour in your pocket, featuring more than 100 of the best restaurants, cafes, bars and markets recommended by a team of in-the-know Tokyoites. You'll also find insights into the city's idiosyncratic food culture, and a handful of iconic recipes to cook in the holiday kitchen or once you've returned home. It's the inside knowledge that allows you to Drink, Shop, Cook and Eat Like a Local.

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    - Your best ever body in under 8 weeks
    by David Kingsbury
    £13.49

    From Hollywood personal trainer, David Kingsbury, this is the revolutionary diet and fitness plan that works because it's personalised to YOU.

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    by Hannah Pemberton
    £10.99

    Discover the new, easy way to enjoy balanced vegetarian and vegan meals with Buddha Bowls. Just follow the very simple formula: Grain + Green + Protein (+ Zen!) for meals that are tasty, nourishing and easy to make.

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    - Cozy Cooking in the English Countryside
    by Marte Marie Forsberg
    £21.99

    Share in a gorgeous, thoughtful life in the charming English countryside with The Cottage Kitchen, a cookbook of recipes and stories by Norwegian-born photographer and tastemaker Marie Forsberg.

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    - 101 recipes celebrating fresh, seasonal ingredients
    by Alice Hart
    £8.99

    Easy, healthy vegetarian dishes using fresh and seasonal ingredients, to inspire you in the kitchen.

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    - Indian Cooking for Modern Living
    by Mallika Basu
    £19.49

    Wholesome recipes, bold flavours and easy cheats to create a true taste of India in a modern kitchen'20 Best New Cookbooks of 2018' Independent'3 Comfort Food Cookbooks For Autumn' Huffpost UK'Her style of simple yet delicious Indian recipes will take you on a journey through this extravagant cuisine' Dr Rupy Aujla Food writer Mallika Basu grew up enjoying exotic flavours from across India in an unconventional, bustling home in Kolkata - and then spent years recreating them in a London kitchen. Now she shares those recipes, techniques and shortcuts so you too can cook wholesome, real Indian food simply.Embrace weekday dinners with lightly spiced fish curry, wok-friendly Goan chilli beef fry or silken kofta curry made with packs of ready-rolled meatballs. For leisurely weekends, tuck into a feast of Vindaloo pulled pork; give your Sunday roast a sumptuous twist with spicy marinades, or enjoy a whole roasted cauliflower encrusted with nut butter. And that's before you even think about swirling dosa and more for a full-on Indian brunch...Mallika's recipes respect the past and celebrate the present in an easy and informal way that will broaden your understanding of Indian cooking, and inspire you to return to these simple recipes time and time again.

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    - The Ultimate BBQ Cookbook
    by Christian Stevenson (DJ BBQ)
    £12.99

    In Fire Food DJ BBQ shows you how to ace the art of handling live fire so that you can grill, smoke and slow-roast meat, fish and veg that's out of this world.

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    - Recipes and Culinary Adventures in Southern Italy
     
    £15.49

    Oktopus, Schwertfisch, Thunfisch, Garnelen und Muscheln sind die Protagonisten der Meeresfrüchteküche Süditaliens.Sie sind es, die den ausgefeilten Gerichten ihren einzigartigen und authentischen mediterranen Geschmack verleihen. Dieses Buch ist ein Querschnitt der süditalienischen Mittelmeerkultur: 45 schmackhafte Rezepte ergänzt durch spannendes Hintergrundwissen zu Geschichte, Kultur und traditioneller Fischerei.

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    by Renee McGregor RD SENr
    £10.99

    When does an interest in healthy eating become an unhealthy and potentially dangerous obsession?

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    - The Comprehensive Guide to the 50 Essential Varietals and Styles
    by Kevin Zraly
    £17.99

    The Comprehensive Guide to the 50 Essential Varieties and Styles

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    - The Art of Toshi Sakamaki's Yakitori Cuisine
    by Bernard Radfar
    £17.99

    In 2014, Radfar moved to West Los Angeles for one reason: to be closer to Toshi Sakamaki and his incredible Yakitori restaurant. This visual love letter to Sakamaki's cuisine includes more than 100 dishes and 125 stunning full-color photos.

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    by Maria Emmerich
    £23.99

    With Maria's delicious high-fat, low-carb recipes, dairy-free keto home cooks will never feel like they are missing out.

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    - Recipes from Tart London
    by Lucy Carr-Ellison
    £19.49

    'Nourishing, delicious, healthy, original food' VogueLucy Carr-Ellison and Jemima Jones are the inimitable pair behind Tart London - the peerless boutique caterers, pop-up kitchen pros and ES Magazine columnists who have been bringing bold and bright food to the London scene since they first started in 2012.

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    - Recipes and Stories from My Italian Family Farm: A Cookbook
    by Valentina Solfrini
    £23.49

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    - The Vegetarian Hamburger Is Now Delicious
    by Brooks Headley
    £20.99

    A home-cook-friendly book on American vegetarian (and accidentally vegan) cooking, featuring over 90 dynamic recipes.

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    - Spain'S Premium Sparkling Wine
    by Anna Wallner
    £12.99

    The only book about Cava available in English

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    - 80 Ricette Della Tradizione (e Non) - 80 Traditional a Non-Traditional Recipes
    by William Dello Russo
    £18.99

    Die sizilianische Küche schmeckt nach Meer, Land und Bergen. Sie ist aber vor allem eine unvergleichliche Mischung von Aromen: Das Ergebnis einer langen Geschichte, geprägt von Einflüssen unterschiedlichster Kulturen zwischen dem Westen und der arabischen Welt. Dieses Buch versammelt authentische sizilianische Kochkultur in 80 kuratierten Rezepten. Kreative Ideen und ausdrucksstarke Fotografien nehmen Sie mit auf eine kulinarische Reise. Außerdem finden SieEmpfehlungen passender sizilianischer Weine.

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    - An Odyssey of Food, My Journey Back to Israel
    by Alon Shaya
    £18.99

    An exciting debut cookbook that confirms the arrival of a new guru chef . . . A moving, deeply personal journey of survival and discovery that tells of the evolution of a cuisine and of the transformative power and magic of food and cooking. From the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef whose celebrated New Orleans restaurants have been hailed as the country's most innovative and best by Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Saveur, GQ, and Esquire. • "Alon's journey is as gripping and as seductive as his cooking . . . Lovely stories, terrific food." --Yotam Ottolenghi, author of Jerusalem: A Cookbook • "Breathtaking. Bravo." --Joan Nathan, author of King Solomon's TableAlon Shaya's is no ordinary cookbook. It is a memoir of a culinary sensibility that begins in Israel and wends its way from the U.S.A. (Philadelphia) to Italy (Milan and Bergamo), back to Israel (Jerusalem) and comes together in the American South, in the heart of New Orleans. It's a book that tells of how food saved the author's life and how, through a circuitous path of (cooking) twists and (life-affirming) turns the author's celebrated cuisine--food of his native Israel with a creole New Orleans kick came to be, along with his award-winning New Orleans restaurants: Shaya, Domenica, and Pizza Domenica, ranked by Esquire, Bon Appétit, and others as the best new restaurants in the United States. These are stories of place, of people, and of the food that connects them, a memoir of one man's culinary sensibility, with food as the continuum throughout his journey--guiding his personal and professional decisions, punctuating every memory, choice, every turning point in his life. Interspersed with glorious full-color photographs and illustrations that follow the course of all the flavors Shaya has tried, places he's traveled, things he's experienced, lessons he's learned--more than one hundred recipes--from Roasted Chicken with Harissa to Speckled Trout with Tahini and Pine Nuts; Crab Cakes with Preserved Lemon Aioli; Roasted Cast-Iron Ribeye; Marinated Soft Cheese with Herbs and Spices; Buttermilk Biscuits; and Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Whipped Feta.

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    - More than 80 Recipes with Fresh Ingredients and a Single Spirit
    by Maggie Hoffman
    £11.99

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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