Voted ' The Best Cookbook Ever' by The Observer Food Monthly, Richard Olney's The French Menu Cookbook is a beautifully written celebration of French food & wine. Filled with inspirational seasonal menus, over 150 authentic recipes & evocative writing, this celebrated book conjures up the scents & scenes of Provence. Originally published in 1970, The French Menu Cookbook became an instant kitchen classic that redefined modern cooking. Written from Olney's home in the hills of southern France, Olney takes the reader through spring, summer, autumn & winter with enlightening guidance on French wine, exquisite dishes, lucid instructions & inspired seasonal menus. The French Menu Cookbook

Includes:: 32 thoughtful menus
- from a simple Provencal lunch to an informal autumn dinner, an elegant winter supper & a festive meal for two. Each menu

Includes:: honest & enlightening explanations of how the French really cook & compelling descriptions of dishes & techniques. With lyrical writing & unsurpassed French recipes, Olney's delightful book is a masterful resource that is a must for every home cook. The size of this book is 24.1cm in height & 16.3cm wide with 446 pages




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Details: Luc & Lisette Ravens
- a former French Resistance fighter & one-time British spy
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Marlon Brando triumphs as Carmine Sabatini, a powerful New York importer. Matthew Broderick co-stars as Clark Kellogg, a naive film student who accepts a job working for Sabatini. As if trapped in a comic nightmare, Clark finds himself drawn deeper & de ...

Upon arrival in New York, Vermont freshman Clark Kellogg (Matthew Broderick) is robbed by conman Victor Ray (Bruno Kirby). When Clark tracks Ray down, he offers to find him a 'legitimate' job with his 'importer/exporter' uncle: Mafia Don Carmine Sabatini (Marlon Brando, parodying his famous ' Godfather' role). Inducted into Sabatini's world, Clark begins to realise that he is aiding & abetting an illegal gourmet society which smuggles in endangered species for its members' dining pleasure. ...

In the sleepy little town of Fairwater, a monstrous evil has awakened.. . an evil so powerful, its reach extends beyond the grave! From Oscar nominated Director Peter Jackson (The Lord Of The Rings) & Executive Producer Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Futu ...

Massachusetts State Investigator Win Garano is given one of his most challenging cases yet when he is asked to investigate the death of a young British woman murdered more than forty years ago. Assumed to be victim of the Boston Strangler, blind Jane Brolin was raped & left for dead in 1962. With no DNA & sketchy police records, this is the case that will test Garano to his limits. It will take him on a journey through the archives, into the latest innovations in forensic technology, & into a partnership with senior officers at London ...

World War Two era screwball comedy from ' The Crazy Gang'. The trio of double-acts, here playing the ' Six Wonder Boys', are lured to Alaska after reading a 40-year-old newspaper telling of the goldrush. Finding they're too late, they hook up with a local beauty who's grandfather is searching for a long-lost crock of gold. As they set off in search of the gold however, the local villains plan a surprise. ...

Growing your own fruit & vegetables is so satisfying & you don't need a large garden or allotment to do so. This book is for all those who want to grow & then cook their own produce & have a garden, allotment or a little bit of outdoor space. Broken down into various chapters, such as Bulb vegetables, Root vegetables, Leaf vegetables, Peas & beans, Marrow & squash, Shooting vegetables, Fruiting vegetables, Herbs, Mushrooms & fungi, Orchard fruit & Soft fruit, there is something for everyone. Each entry

Includes:: an at-a-glance timetable showing time of year for planting, principle care instructions & harvesting times, along with different varieties, growing techniques, information on pests & diseases, storage, preparation, & freezing or preservation techniques. Next comes a recipe section, featuring 60 recipes offering a wide range of cooking techniques & types of dish to make the most of the fruits of your labours. Soups, starters, light meals & salads, main meals, accompaniments, & desserts & puddings all feature. As well as full ingredients, preparation & method instructions, each recipe will include freezing & reheating instructions where applicable, 25 x 17.3 x 2, pages 192.

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Spanning 1979-1987, The Fry Chronicles charts Stephen Fry's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. " Heartbreaking, a delight, a lovely, comfy book". (" The Times"). " Perfect prose & excruciating honesty. A grand reminiscence of college & theatre & comedyland in the 1980s, with tone-perfect anecdotes & genuine readerly excitement. What Fry does, essentially, is tell us who he really is. Above all else, a thoughtful book. & namedroppy too, & funny, & marbled with melancholy". (" Observer"). " Arguably the greatest living Englishman". (" Independent on Sunday"). " Extremely enjoyable". (" Sunday Times"). " Fry's linguistic facility remains one of the Wildean wonders of the new media age. The patron saint of British intelligence". (" Daily Telegraph"). Welcome to Stephen Fry's " The Fry Chronicles", one of the boldest, bravest, most revealing & heartfelt accounts of a man's formative years that you will ever have the exquisite pleasure of reading. Stephen Fry's film, stage, radio & television credits are so numerous & wide-ranging that there is not space here to do them justice. It is enough to say that he has written, produced, directed, acted in or presented productions as varied as " Wilde", the TV series " Blackadder" & " Jeeves & Wooster", the sketch show "A Bit of Fry & Laurie", the panel game "QI", the radio series " Fry's English Delight" & documentaries on subjects as varied as manic depression, disappearing animals & the United States of America. He's also the bestselling author of four novels
- " The Stars' Tennis Balls", Making History, The Hippopotamus & " The Liar"
- as well as a volume of autobiography, Moab is My Washpot, & sundry works of non-fiction.

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This hilarious, intriguing & utterly compelling story of how the Stephen the nation knows (or thinks it knows) began to make his presence felt as he took his first tentative steps in the worlds of television, journalism, radio, theatre & film. For all its trademark wit & verbal brilliance, this is a book that is not afraid to confront the aching chasm that separates public image from private feeling. Welcome to the Fry Chronicles, one of the bravest, boldest & heartfelt accounts of a man's formative years that you will ever have the exquisite pleasure of reading. ...