Fantastic Mark-Downs and Offers

  Ahead of Black Friday and Christmas, we’ve marked down a whole heap of exciting new titles so that you can treat your reader friends and loved ones (and yourself) to as many books as you can carry/wrap! Here are some of the titles onto which we’re cheerfully...

Ottolenghi: The Most Beautiful Cookbooks Out There

  Having started out as a pastry chef in London, Israeli-English chef, food-writer, restauranteur and culinary inventor, Yotam Ottolenghi has risen to a position of some prominence in the food world thanks to the 6 delis and restaurants that he co-owns in London,...

Kitchen Queen book review

This book review comes from Omphile Raleie, founder of the Bookamoso book club. The word Bookamoso is derived from the Setswana word bokamoso which means future. With the extra ‘o’, Bookamoso has come to mean ‘our future in books’. The purpose of the Bookamoso Book...

Jamie Oliver Cookbooks that Need Adding To Your Kitchen Bookshelf

  As long as Jamie Oliver’s career in cooking has been, he still hasn’t run out of new meals to share with us, new approaches to food in general and, of course, new recipes to publish. His most recent book, 7 Ways, which is currently in the country’s top ten...

Twitter chat with The Lazy Makoti

Mastering the kitchen can seem pretty intimidating, especially when confronted with Instagram and TV chefs who seem to do everything with ease while, at the same time, relating a cute anecdote on camera. I’ve found that what most people want is simply to learn...