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Chai, chaat, chutney & The Cardamom Trail (Chetna Makan) – A book review

“Chetna is the queen of spice”. All throughout her journey through the British Bake Off competition Chetna Makan manages to pull off great flavour combinations. In her crispy lentil kachori “the volume...

February 16, 2020

5 min read

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Cook, Taste, Learn (Guy Crosby) – A book review

Inventions rarely ever come all by themselves. You can’t invent a can, if there is no tin, you can’t invent beer without there being vessels to hold it and you can’t invent bread if you don’t...

January 21, 2020

7 min read

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Sweet (Yotam Ottolenghi) – A cookbook review

Creating original, good dessert recipes isn’t easy. There are so many brownies recipes out there already, the same for a cupcake or ice cream recipe. Finding a book that really teaches you something new if...

January 19, 2020

8 min read

Van Leeuwen artisan ice cream book cover

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Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream – A book review

Reading a cookbook from authors passionate about their topic, who write a cookbook about a topic because it’s what they do day in day out is always great. These books ‘shine’ more than those in which...

September 11, 2019

7 min read

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Gastrophysics (Charles Spence) – A book review

We don’t talk about if often here, how to make sure that the food you make, is actually liked and desired by your customers. Whether that’s your family eating a meal, or millions of people buying your food...

October 2, 2019

6 min read

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The Turkish Cookbook (Musa Dağdeviren) – A review

Some cookbooks you buy because you like the author’s cooking style (e.g. Plenty), others you buy to learn more about a specific topic (Hello, my name is ice cream), others you buy to open doors to a world you...

August 27, 2019

7 min read

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Salt Fat Acid Heat (Samin Nosrat) – A book review

Most cookbooks or books about cooking, are recipe books. One recipe after the other. There might be some personal story from the author intertwined throughout, or a few tips and tricks on how to make it work well. Most...

June 14, 2019

7 min read

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Cook’s Science & Science of Good Cooking – Book review

If you’re like me, you believe there’s always something new to learn. And if you would like to learn something about food & science, in a very accessible way, the two books we’re reviewing today...

January 25, 2019

6 min read

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On Food and Cooking (Harold McGee) – A book review

If I could recommend just one book to someone interested to learn more about food & science, it would be On Food and Cooking (affiliate link), by Harold McGee. It is more of an encyclopedia than anything and covers...

November 21, 2018

5 min read

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The Food Lab – A cookbook review

If I would have the time & space and plenty of people to eat all the food, I wouldn’t make just one or two batches of ice cream at a time. I would make 10, varying all those parameters I’d be interested...

September 29, 2018

7 min read

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Chai, chaat, chutney & The Cardamom Trail (Chetna Makan) – A book review

Cook, Taste, Learn (Guy Crosby) – A book review

Sweet (Yotam Ottolenghi) – A cookbook review

Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream – A book review

Gastrophysics (Charles Spence) – A book review

The Turkish Cookbook (Musa Dağdeviren) – A review

Salt Fat Acid Heat (Samin Nosrat) – A book review

Cook’s Science & Science of Good Cooking – Book review

On Food and Cooking (Harold McGee) – A book review

The Food Lab – A cookbook review

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