Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey is an ambitious journey avoiding the beaten track & tourist hot-spots in search of the authentic ...

Whenever I hear the word curry I'm filled with a longing for spicy hot food with the fragrance of cumin cloves & cinnamon. I see deep red colours from lots of Kashmiri chillis tinged with a suggestion of yellow from turmeric. I think of the tandoor oven & slightly scorched naan shining with ghee & garlic. When Indians talk of their food they talk about their life. To understand this country you need to understand curry. What makes a good curry? Sensual spicy aromas or thick creamy sauces? Rich dark dals or crispy fried street snacks? Rick journeys through India to find the answer searching this colourful chaotic nation in search of the truths behind our love affair with its food. Chefs home cooks & street vendors hold the key to unlocking the secrets of these complex & diverse flavours
- & Rick's travels take him to the heart of both their long-held traditions & most modern techniques. He uncovers recipes for fragrant kormas delicate spiced fish & slow-cooked biryanis all the while gathering ideas & inspiration for his own take on that elusive dish
- the perfect curry.

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Approach the Mediterranean Sea from any direction & you know you've entered a different world. Rick Stein's culinary odyssey takes in both the islands & coast of this remarkable region. Travelling often by public ferry boat & encountering extraodinary people along the way Rick has sought out the very best of the region's food. This is a land where culinary trends are looked down upon. What matters is how good the lemons are this year & who is pressing the best olive oil. Rick's pick of more than 100 recipes

Includes:: Catalan Grilled Stuffed Mussels Feta & Mint Pastries Puglian Fava Bean Puree Corsican Oysters with a Pernod & Tarragon Dressing Moroccan Chicken with Preserved Lemon & Olives Sicilian Orange Cake & Corfiot Rice Pudding. Fully illustrated with beautiful food photography by Earl Carter & landscape photography by Craig Easton Rick Stein's Mediterranean is a fascinating journey into a rich & varied culinary heritage.

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Over the years through his television programmes & books Rick Stein has done much to inform us about fish & to encourage us to cook it for ourselves. However many of us still feel nervous about cooking it at home. Rick Stein's Seafood brings together his knowledge & expertise &

Includes:: 200 of his tried-&-tested recipes. It is divided into three separate sections: Techniques; Recipes & finally an A to Z of Fish. The techniques section covers all the main preparation & cooking methods for each type of fish (round flat shellfish etc) while the A-Z of fish is a comprehensive encyclopedia of fish & seafood including US Australian & European fish. The recipe section

Includes:: all the essential basic recipes such as stocks sauces batters etc. Useful cross references link all sections. Rick Stein's Seafood has been an international bestseller & was awarded the highly coveted James Beard Foundation Cookbook of the Year Award in 2005.



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In this guide Rick Steves focuses on some of the grandest sights in Europe. As always he has a plan to help you have a meaningful cultural experience while you're there--even with just a few hours in port. Rick Steves' Mediterranean Cruise Ports" explains how to get into town from the cruise terminal shares sightseeing tips &

Includes:: self-guided walks & tours. You'll learn which destinations are best for an excursion--and which you can confidently visit on your own. You'll also get tips on booking a cruise plus hints for saving time & money on the ship & in port. You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you "really" need to know when cruising the Mediterranean. Inside you'll find one-day itineraries for sightseeing at or near the major Mediterranean ports of call including: Barcelona Marseille Toulon Nice Villefranche-sur-Mer & Monaco Florence Rome Naples & Venice Dubrovnik Split Athens Mykonos & Santorini Istanbul & Ephesus"

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Fresh seasonal recipes that perfectly evoke the relaxed luxury of the Hamptons Combining food with her memories of raising ...

Anno Domini 1369. The much loved Queen Philippa lies dying at Windsor & the plague has returned to the city of York. In an atmosphere of fear & superstition rumours spread that a spate of deaths at St Leonards Hospital in York is no accident. The hospital is in debt & has suffered thefts: Sir Richard de Ravenser Master of the Hospital returns from Winchester painfully aware that scandal could ruin his own career. Anxious to avert a crisis he requests the services of Owen Archer spy for the Archbishop. With plague rife & the citys inhabitants besieging his wife the Apothecary for new cures Owen Archer is unwilling to become involved. There is too little to link the victims to each other: the riddle seems unsolvable. But careful enquiries reveal a further riddle connected to one of the victims. Is this where the truth lies? ...

The decoding of Linear B is one of the world's greatest stories: from the discovery of a cache of ancient tablets recording a lost prehistoric language to the dramatic solution of the riddle nearly seventy years later it exerts a mesmerizing pull on the imagination. But captivating as it is this story is missing a crucial piece. Two men have dominated Linear B in popular history: Arthur Evans the intrepid Victorian archaeologist who unearthed Linear B at Knossos & Michael Ventris the dashing young amateur who produced a solution. But there was a third figure: Alice Kober without whose painstaking work recorded on pieces of paper clipped from hymn-sheets & magazines & stored in cigarette boxes in her Brooklyn loft Linear B might still remain a mystery. Drawing on Kober's own papers
- only made available recently
- Margalit Fox provides the final piece of the enigma & along the way reveals how you decipher a language when you know neither its grammar nor its alphabet as well as the stories behind other ancient languages like the dancing-man Rongorongo of Easter Isl&.

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Loosely based on the authors own experiences The Riddle of the Sands" takes readers back to the early days of the twentieth century when Britain shared a tense rivalry with the Kaisers Germany. Tempted by the idea of duck shooting Carruthers is lured by his friend Davies into a yachting expedition in the Baltic only to discover that the itinerary involves more than killing fowl. Soon theyre on a wild journey of intrigue meeting danger at every turn & ultimately unraveling Germanys secret plans to invade Engl&. Tautly written & full of unexpected twists this is a timeless work of espionage fiction." ...

The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact nobody would miss most of them at all.. . By the 16th of July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned but not yet worried. Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter's lodge at Approx. 8.15 a.m. on the morning of Friday 11th July. & nobody had heard from him since. Plenty of time to disappear thought Morse. & plenty of time too for someone to commit murder... ...