The food of Italy remains one of the most popular cuisines in the world providing fresh flavours & ingredients in delicious combinations. Now Quickcook: Italian shows you how to make 360 wonderfully authentic & regional dishes in as little as 30 20 or 10 minutes. The collection

Includes:: much-loved classics such as pasta & pizza with delicious new twists to suit cooks working to tight schedules. Its a definitive guide
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- for busy cooks who understand that theres no food more delicious or attractive than that from an Italian kitchen.



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360 hot & spicy recipes to fit the time you have available. Including tasty recipes for Aubergine Tomato & Chilli Curry Spiced Okra Tomato & Coconut Saute Piri Piri Griddled Squid with Mint & Coriander Turmeric Mackerel Skewers with Chilli Rice Noodles & Harissa Spiced Turkey & Vegetable Skewers there are plenty of fresh ideas & exotic tastes however rushed you may be. ...

Choose from a variety of fish & seafood recipes that will deliver delicious results in less than half an hour with Hamlyn Quick Cook: Fish. Whether you've got 30 minutes 20 minutes or 10 minutes to spare you'll find a tasty & healthy fish dish to fit the bill. You'll be able to cook timeless classics such as Crusted Trout with Beurre Blanc or spicy summer treats such as Chorizo-stuffed Plaice with Tomatoes. Other entrees include hearty stews & soups dinner party favorites & spectacular pasta rice & noodle dishes. ...

With modern society's rushed pace forcing many of us to leave quality family time on the back burner all too often we find ourselves reaching for the phone to order takeaways or sticking a ready-meal in the microwave instead of sitting around the family dinner table at the end of the day. Easy Family Suppers offers the perfect alternative to dinner in front of the TV by showing you how to use limited ingredients simple methods & minimal time to create delicious & healthy family meals. With 360 fabulously easy recipes that can all be prepared in 30 minutes or less you can feed the family & still have time to relax after a long day's work. From starters & light bites to fuss-free desserts this is a comprehensive guide to creating a varied array of delectable dishes. So put down the phone throw away those takeaway menus & get cooking! ...

Easy vegetarian meals that can be made in just 30 20 or 10 minutes allowing busy cooks to choose from 360 great vegetarian recipes that they can fit into the limited time they have available. This fantastically flexible approach will help you create a variety of great dishes including breakfast & light bites midweek meals family favorites food for friends & delicious desserts. ...

Q: Why despite all the shortages was the toilet paper in East Germany always 2-ply? A: Because they had to send a copy of everything they did to Moscow. Communist jokes are the strangest funniest most enchanting & meaningful legacy of the 80 years of political experimentation in Russia & Eastern Europe known as Communism. The valiant & sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries
- surrounded by an invisible network of secret police threatened with arrest imprisonment & forced labour confronted by an economic system that left shops empty & bombarded with ludicrous state propaganda
- turned joke-telling into an art form. They used jokes as a coded way of speaking the truth. HAMMER & TICKLE takes us on a unique journey through the Communist era (1917-1989) & tells its real history through subversive jokes & joke-tellers many of whom ended up in the gulags. It is also illustrated with a combination of rare & previously unpublished archive material political cartoons caricatures photographs & state-sponsored propaganda. Humorous culturally poignant & historically revealing this is the story of a political system that was (almost) laughed out of existence.

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Last year a box of never-seen-before photos of Hammer Films productions was archived by Hammer expert Wayne Kinsey for the British Film Institute. Kinsey & the BFI were so impressed by the collection that it was agreed the best should be published. Through these rare & mostly previously unseen images this book tells the visual story of Hammers output. You will be guided through this wonderful collection of photos by Kinsy himself the celebrated author of Hammer Films: The Elstree Studios Years" & " Hammer Films: The Bray Studios Years". The book explores the wider & fascinating side of one of the British film industrys greatest success stories showing once & for all that Hammer was not just a purveyor of cheap horror pictures. In fact they made films in a number of different genres such as war thrillers gritty dramas comedies & colourful swashbuckling adventures. Some of these were among their best films; 1959 is a case in point which included such classics as " Never Take Sweets from a Stranger" " Hell is a City" & " Yesterdays Enemy" the latter of which earned Hammer BAFTA nominations for best picture best actor & best supporting actor. Hammers films also benefited from an expert team of actors & technicians including big names that on first glance would never have thought to be associated with Hammer including Robert Aldrich Ken Adam Joe Losey Bette Davis Tallulah Bankhead Donald Sutherland Joan Fontaine Richard Widmark Ursula Andress & Raquel Welch. This is a limited edition hardcover book that is destined to become a highly sought-after collectors item." ...

Over fifty years ago with the release of The Curse of Frankenstein" & Christopher Lees iconic performance in " Dracula" Hammer ushered in a whole new era of blood & barely-restrained cleavage in glorious colour mixing sex & horror with a style & panache that made the small British company world famous. Bursting at the seams with rare & previously unpublished photographs from Hammers archive & private collections worldwide & featuring many new interviews " Hammer Glamour" is a lavish full colour celebration of Hammers female stars including Ingrid Pitt Martine Beswick Caroline Munro Barbara Shelley Joanna Lumley Nastassja Kinski & of course Raquel Welch (who can forget her fur bikini in " One Million Years B. C."?)." ...

This is the question that troubles hotshot young FBI agent Judy Maddox in Ken Follet's hold-your-breath new thriller. Judy's boss has a grudge against her so he gives her a dumb assignment: to investigate an anonymous threat from a group that claims that it can trigger earthquakes. Judy's research leads her to maverick seismologist Michael Quercus who tells her it is possible for an earthquake to be caused deliberately. & when a tremor in a remote desert area shows signs of being machine-generated Judy knows he was right. But who is responsible for the earthquake? Judy must find out before another tremor strikes. Helped by the erratic but attractive Michael she races to pinpoint the terrorists' next target before they trigger the ultimate disaster. With The Hammer of Eden Ken Follett is at the top of his form delivering a state-of-the-art suspense thriller to rival his best work. ' Crackles with suspense.' Daily Telegraph ' So exciting I found myself setting the alarm clock for four in the morning to finish it.' Daily Mail ...

In Ethrea Rhian sits upon a precarious throne. Defiant noblemen who wont accept her rule threaten the stability of her kingdom Zandakar a man she thought was her friend has been revealed as the son of a woman sworn to destroy her & her husband King Alasdair is increasingly unsure of her love. Rhians most grave problem however lay outside the borders of her realm. The trading nations refuse to believe Mijak is a threat & promise reprisals if she dares to protect her realm. If she cannot unite the warring factions within her land a move again Mijak might prove the end of her reign. Which is exactly what the empress of Mijak has planned... ...