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Indulgence: One man's selfless search for the best chocolate: Around the World in Search of Chocolate

By Richardson, Paul

Building a Wood-fired Oven for Bread and Pizza (English Kitchen)

By Jaine, Tom

The Prosecco Cookbook: Prosecco Cocktails, Cakes, Dinners & Desserts

By CookNation

Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By Luke Barr

Seaweed and Eat It: A Family Foraging and Cooking Adventure

By Houston, Fiona, Milne, Xa

An Edible History of Humanity

By Standage, Tom

Pepper

By McFadden, Christine

Porters English Cookery Bible: Ancient and Modern

By Bradford, Richard Thomas Orlando Bridgeman

The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times

By Stuart, Tristam

Strange Foods: An Epicuran's Guide to the Weird and Wonderful

By Hopkins, Jerry, Freemans, Michael

Feast: Why Humans Share Food

By Jones, Martin

Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyclades and Apulia

By Patience Gray, Corinna Sargood

Hugh Johnson's Story of Wine

By Johnson, Hugh

Dinner with Mr Darcy: Recipes inspired by the novels and letters of Jane Austen

By Vogler, Pen

Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

By Stark, Lizzie

A History of the World in 6 Glasses

By Tom Standage

Why Food Matters

By Paul Freedman

100 Million Years of Food: What Our Ancestors Ate and Why it Matters Today

By Stephen Le

The Bistro Cookbook

The WI Cookbook: The First 100 Years

By Mary Gwynn

Food Is Culture

By Massimo Montanari, Albert Sonnenfeld

The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners

By Margaret Visser

Welsh Food Stories

By Carwyn Graves

Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice

By Gyorgy Scrinis (Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne)

The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World (reissued)

By Michael Pollan

Appetite

By Nigel Slater

Recipes from the White Hart Inn

By Verrall, WILLIAM

Everlasting Syllabub and the Art of Carving

By Jekyll, Agnes, Glasse, Hannah

A Middle Eastern Feast

By Roden, Claudia

Grandmother's Wisdom: Good, Old-Fashioned Advice Handed Down Through the Ages

By Lee Faber