Paper Palate

This slender book describes itself as “a simple guide for hosts and guests.” Many people might argue that manners and etiquette are neither simple, nor particularly relevant, but Lynn Rosen’s book is a clear and reasonably comprehensive guide to both sides of the dinner table.
The focus is largely on the table setting itself: both how […]

This month’s AGT features ‘Winter Classics’ which is, depressingly, almost appropriate for those of us in England.
While there are a lot of tempting recipes, not least of all the pan fried mulloway with leek sauce featured on the cover, this month I finally ventured into Perfect Match territory. Food and wine matching tends to be […]

This is one of my most recent acquisitions: a cookbook that I actually won! Even though it’s a book of swift, store cupboard suppers, in the two months I’ve owned it I haven’t actually used it. Time to rectify that!
The books’ sub-heading is “How to get the most out of your kitchen” and is based on […]

I am not a particularly Women’s Institute type person. The association seems to have all sorts of connotations: mature ladies as Calendar Girls, raising money for charity, or perhaps rather a lot of jam, cake and the occasional speaker of interest. Sounds like a cracking night out, no?
So I was rather surprised when I was […]

In the northern hemisphere we’re supposed to be enjoying summer, but the unseasonal and inclement weather in the UK over the past month has meant that a winter edition of Australian Gourmet Traveller is not as out of place as it might have been.
June’s AGT is focussed on ‘comfort food … cosy winter dishes’ so […]

Global Grub is, apparently, a ‘revolutionary new cookbook’. Well, I don’t know about that, but I do think that it’s a very good offering for the nervous, first time cook.
The book is spiral bound, with sturdy wipe clean pages, so you don’t have to worry about copying out a recipe and taking a piece of […]

Cuisine Gourmande is the most upscale cooking magazine of France’s culinary Trio Gourmand, published by the Prisma Presse group. At 63,020 bi-monthly issues, it is the least popular of Prisma’s three cooking titles, representing 20.6% of the “Trio’s” circulation — and only half that if we consider that Cuisine Actuelle and Guide Cuisine come out […]

A bit of consternation and bated breath as this month’s AGT arrived a little late. Another lovely issue and while the travel experiences may be a little out of readers’ price ranges there’s more than enough cooking to keep your mind off holidays you can’t afford.
This month Fare Exchange features four recipes from across Australia, […]

When the opportunity came up to review Tea Time magazine I couldn’t help myself - I just had to do it. Is there really that much to say about afternoon tea? How many cake recipes can you really put in one magazine?
The magazine’s by-line is ‘Tearooms-Food-China-Table Settings’, although there is also a very healthy emphasis […]

Summer might be drawing to a close in Australia but you wouldn’t know it from the current weather or from large number of sunny, blue-sky shots in the latest AGT. As if that’s not annoying enough for those of us in the northern hemisphere who are struggling towards summer, you also get plenty of late […]