Anthony Bourdain, life-long line cook & bestselling author of ” Kitchen Confidential”, sets off to eat his way around the world. But being Anthony Bourdain, this was never going to be a conventional culinary tour. Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, & travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge territory to find the rumoured Wild West of Cambodia (Pailin). Other stops include dining with gangsters in Russia, a medieval pig slaughter & feast in northern Portugal, the Basque All Male Gastronomique Society in Saint Sebastian, rural Mexico with his Mexican sous-chef, a pilgrimage to the French Laundry in the Napa Valley & a return to his roots in the tiny fishing village of La Teste, where he first ate an oyster as a child. Written with the inimitable machismo & humour that has made Tony Bourdain such a sensation, ”A Cook`s Tour” is an adventure story sure to give you indigestion. ...

Award-winning food writer Sue Lawrence has taken up the baton in praise of Scotland`s produce. Travelling the length & breadth of Scotl&, sheseeks out all the great raw ingredients Scotland has to offer. From cockles harvested on Barra & venison from the Highlands, to seaweed picked on Auchmithie beach & lamb from Shetl&, Sues celebration of Scottish produce reveals a cornucopia of culinary delights. She has journeyed all over the country to meet the people who farm & produce its food. An Orkney barley miller, a Stornoway black pudding butcher, an Isle of Mull cheese producer, a Dundee sausage-maker & a Brora jam-maker are just a few of the many Scottish food heroes she meets. A celebration of the Scottish landscape & history, as well as its food, A Cooks Tour of Scotland contains 120 delicious recipes & is not only a must for anyone visiting Scotland`s shores but deserves a place on the cookery shelves of anyone who loves seasonal, healthy, freshly grown, caught or farmed food. ...

Cool Architecture: 50 Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages is the perfect book for anyone who wants to know more about the buildings around us. After reading this you`ll be able to tell a Doric from a Corinthian column, how the Egyptians built the pyramids, & how on earth a dome stays up. Packed with absorbing facts & quirky illustrations, Cool Architecture tells you everything you need to know about architecture around the world, from the simple dwellings created by the earliest humans to today`s most innovative buildings, via forbidding medieval strongholds, great 18th-Century palaces & the classic Art Deco skyscrapers of New York. Learn about the great architectural movements & the personalities that created them, & explore the most iconic buildings in the world, from the Parthenon in Greece to the (current) world`s tallest skyscraper, the Khalifa Tower in Dubai. This book is a perfect introduction to what`s cool about the fascinating world of architecture. ...

Inside this mega-jam-packed book are fifty fact-tastic ways to advance & improve your astronomy skills so you`ll never feel alone in the universe again! Learn amazing space-related tricks such as how to watch a solar eclipse safely & mapping stars from your own back garden, right down to expertly simplifying the supermassive numbers & distances involved in the space between space so you`ll never forget them. With Cool Astronomy, you`ll discover everything you need to know about the universe, from asteroids to the zenith point.. .and almost everything in between! Word count: 20, 000 ...

Following on from the success of guides to Engl&, Wales & Scotl&, the publishers of the UK's best-selling campsite guides have created one definitive British volume. Featuring 150 stunning campsites, from the wilds of the Scilly Isles to the sandy shores of Scotland's coastline, this book showcases the very best of British camping. New finds include a secret campsite in Sussex only accessible via a disused railway bridge, a Suffolk eco-escape by the banks of a glorious river & beach camping on the Isle of Eigg, where a rare geological phenomenon causes the sands to sing along to the sound of the waves. Forest camping, beautiful views, family-friendly sites & campsites with campfires are all covered
- with over 50 brand new sites that have never featured in the Cool Camping guides before. This h&-picked selection of campsites is brought to life with insightful reviews & hundreds of colour photographs, plus handy practical info on what you can expect to find on site, things to do in the locality, & the best food & drink options around. And only the Cool Camping guides illustrate every single campsite with photographs, allowing campers to use the book for inspiration as well as information.
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The Cool Camping Cookbook, from the people behind those lovely Cool Camping guidebooks, combines a passion for the outdoors with a love of food. & the result is a cookbook unlike any other. Illustrated with over 150 refreshingly candid photos, it dishes up fresh ideas for campers, walkers, picnic lovers
- or for those who just fancy cooking al fresco in the back garden. With innovative recipes for barbecue or burner, comfort food for a rainy day, delicious meals to cook over a roaring fire & squidgy, sweet things to get stuck in your teeth, this book sticks two grubby fingers up to the Nanny State! Learn how to cook calzone pizza directly on an open fire, bake muffins in orange peel, roast fish in a brick of salt, or make your own firepit or campfire cooking tripod. Comfort food options include a simple & hearty Minestrone soup, Spicy Sausage Penne with a chili kick & Camper`s Cassoulet. Barbecue favourites include Cool Camping Jerk Chicken, Bush Burgers & great ideas for infusing fresh fish with bags of flavour. For campfire lovers, recipes range from the simplicity of boy-scout favourite ` Sausage-on-a-stick` to the deliciously fragrant Thai Green Curry & exotic Lemon Chicken Tagine. Written by the Cool Camping team including cookery writer Tom Tuke-Hastings (The Art of the Vodka Jelly; Puddings in a Panic) & travel writer & keen camper Jonathan Knight (Cool Camping; England; Cool Camping: Wales) with a foreword by adventurer & TV presenter Bear Grylls (Born Survivor) this book serves up great food for the great outdoors.
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The Cool Camping Cookbook, from the people behind those lovely Cool Camping guidebooks, combines a passion for the outdoors with a love of food. & the result is a cookbook unlike any other. Illustrated with over 150 refreshingly candid photos, it dishes up fresh ideas for campers, walkers, picnic lovers
- or for those who just fancy cooking al fresco in the back garden. With innovative recipes for barbecue or burner, comfort food for a rainy day, delicious meals to cook over a roaring fire & squidgy, sweet things to get stuck in your teeth, this book sticks two grubby fingers up to the Nanny State! Learn how to cook calzone pizza directly on an open fire, bake muffins in orange peel, roast fish in a brick of salt, or make your own firepit or campfire cooking tripod. Comfort food options include a simple & hearty Minestrone soup, Spicy Sausage Penne with a chili kick & Camper's Cassoulet. Barbecue favourites include Cool Camping Jerk Chicken, Bush Burgers & great ideas for infusing fresh fish with bags of flavour. For campfire lovers, recipes range from the simplicity of boy-scout favourite ` Sausage-on-a-stick' to the deliciously fragrant Thai Green Curry & exotic Lemon Chicken Tagine. Written by the Cool Camping team including cookery writer Tom Tuke-Hastings (The Art of the Vodka Jelly; Puddings in a Panic) & travel writer & keen camper Jonathan Knight (Cool Camping; England; Cool Camping: Wales) with a foreword by adventurer & TV presenter Bear Grylls (Born Survivor) this book serves up great food for the great outdoors.
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Cool Camping England is all about guiding campers to very special places across the country. Hundreds of sites are personally inspected by the Cool Camping team & those that impress make the cut
- the criteria not being how many showers or electricity hook ups per head, but the locations, the views, the surrounding area & the ambience. A campsite locator map shows you the whereabouts of each of the 70 featured sites (arranged by county), a top 5 sites have been selected & the
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This best-selling travel guide gets a complete update in this fully revised Third Edition. Now covering 150 exceptional campsites & camping experiences across Engl&, including 90 new discoveries, this is the biggest Cool Camping book to date. New sites in this edition include a tiny campsite contained within a secluded walled orchard, an idyllic woodland campsite in the heart of Devon & chilled-out lakeside site with a real passion for sustainable living. With all the practical info you need, including the best campsites for kids, campfires, dogs, views, what you can expect to find on-site, things to do in the locality & the best food & drink options around, this is essential reading for contemporary campers. ...

Cool Camping Europe, the biggest Cool Camping book yet, uncovers a stunning range of special places to camp from the tip ...