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Food and wine is the first section of any wine book that I flick to. Is it going to be perfunctory, clichéd, adding little to the banal generalisations of others? Or will it enlighten, offer a fresh twist and inspire?
Secrets From The Wine Diva has 40 odd pages covering the subject of food and wine. […]

A throw-away page in the Sunday Times lists the dishes and the books the recipes come from that are now the dishes to serve at all smart dinner parties, from ‘Notting Hill to East Dulwich’.
Roast Pheasant Stuffed With Barley and Golden Sultanas from Feasts by Silvena Rowe [Amazon.co.uk £12]
Chicken Curry from Tom Atkins Cooking by […]

The Times this weekend has a list of ten recommended eateries for groups - probably too late for the pre-Christmas staff party but handy perhaps for later ‘into the New Year’ does and of course for parties over the coming months… for parties are not just for Christmas. As usual all these establishments are in London.
Gaucho […]

Nigel Slater’s Food Diaries again, this time for trifle. Not appearing until July the recipe for ‘Nigel’s Delightful Trifle’ uses blackcurrants as the fruit base. Of course none available in a late evening raid into Waitrose so blackberries substituted. Hang the air miles, these Mexican berries were big, juicy and flavoursome with three punnets supplying […]

In the Sunday Times - ten recommended food books; did someone mention Christmas present?
1 A Year In My Kitchen by Skye Gyngell
“A beautiful book by an innovative and inspirational chef… the book is held together by a ‘toolbox’ of basic recipes (for stock, toasted nuts, sourdough breadcrumbs etc) that are used throughout. A future classic”
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Antony Worrall Thompson was in the centre of Henley the other week - he lives nearby - signing his latest book.His move from Saturday morning BBC TV over to ITV forced a rename of the book. Originally it was going to be a Saturday Kitchen recipe book but is now under a cover proclaiming it […]

The team at Paper Palate is off for the weekend, but hang in there.  We’ll all be back Monday with more scintillating reviews on magazines, newspapers and cookbooks.  See you then!

The author of a Tale of 12 Kitchens, Jake Tilson, will be wandering around New York on the 4th December and is open to chat to all and sundry.

To launch his first cookbook - Jake Tilson, artisit, designer and author will spend a day roving around his favourite culinary spots in Manhattan. Join him for […]

Ignoring the pat of butter and the large amount of sugar that goes into flapjack, I was hoping that the oats and fruit, in this case cranberries, would be a healthy addition to this weeks diet.  Not happy with this recipe though (from Fresh magazine). The result, although tasty, is far too crumbly. What I […]

Front page news across most of the nationals today - battery farm eggs being sold as free range.
In a nut egg shell a company imported millions of cheap eggs from Europe and resold them as free range, at a premium price of course, to major supermarkets such as Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s. The Scotsman reports […]