Caroline Conran Livres

Taking you from the market place to the plate, the Conran Cookbook encompasses everything the home cook needs to know from the essential knowledge necessary to choose and prepare over 1000 ingredients, to equipping the kitchen, planning successful menus and cooking over 450 delicious meals. The best cooking depends on a sound knowledge of the raw materials, and the first half of the book is packed with meticulously researched and illustrated information about buying and preparing the vast range of ingredients available today. The second half of the book features over 450 fail-safe recipes that represent the essence of home cooking. These include old favorites such as steak and kidney pudding, salade nicoise and sherry trifle, along with those at the cutting edge of contemporary taste such as hot and sour shellfish broth and coconut and mandarin ice-cream. Finally, a comprehensive glossary of key terms and techniques provides valuable back-up knowledge, combining to make this the essential cookbook.

This relishable account of Languedoc cuisine is an exploration of the cultural background to the robust food of French region.

This title provides the perfect way to reduce the family grocery bill and at the same time produce simple classic food. It features over 300 classic recipes that you can't find in modern cookery books, such as baked eggs, kedgeree and kidney pudding.

Coastal Atlantic - South West France, the Basque country and Bay of Biscay, home to intense flavours, pintxos, and seafood.

Robbie is lonely at home with his parents in the Port of Arlen, his father is strict, his school is brutal and he lives in a world of his own, an imaginary place in which he is a detective, finding out secrets. When he gets a pair of binoculars, this world expands to show him a place full of shadows, of mysteries and of menace. He has to face difficult challenges, fight for what he thinks is right and stay loyal to those he loves.