Our selection of cookbooks this month could satisfy the most difficult palates. You can find recipes from Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Italy, and Greece in our selection, and with the winter weather we are having now, a cooking book with Polish recipes might be just the thing to warm you up! Recipes from Asia are also featured with cookbooks from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Japan. And Africa is also covered with Flavours of Morocco, and two cooking books about South African fare, a blend of Eastern, Western and African flavours. Check out all these titles in the month’s Cooking Recent Picks.

Is your day so hectic you don’t have the time to prepare a home-cooked meal? Yum-O! The family cookbook gives you tips and tricks to find time to fit home-made meals into your daily routine. Do you want to make everyday meals flavoursome and healthy while helping out Fairtrade farmers and workers? Sounds like The fairtrade everyday cookbook is for you! Heard about brainfood? ‘Mens sana in corpore sanum’, a sound mind in a sound body, might well be the motto of Google’s chefs when they prepare meals for their company’s’ employees. Food 2.0 : secrets from the chef who fed Google tells you about the newest nutrition buzzword, brainfood, and outlines the basics on how the right foods can transform the mind and body. And finally, if traditional fare is what you prefer, The pie and pastry bible showcases more than two hundred recipes that spell out COMFORT FOOD. You’ll find these titles and much more in this month’s Cooking Recent Picks.

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In this month’s Cooking Recent Picks, there is a wide selection of recipies to fight off the winter chill. Polish & Russian : 70 traditional step-by-step dishes from Eastern Europe features all the classic dishes of eastern-europe including Borsch, Chicken Kiev, Beef Stroganov, Pirozhkis and Blinis, and Soups and breads : the soup recipes you must have contains a delicious collection of soup and bread recipes from around the globe. And if you miss the warmth and sun Moroccan is the ideal cookbook to bring summer back… in your kitchen. Amateurs of fine wines and brews are not forgotten with Vineyard visits , a guide to over 150 New-Zealand wineries, and Extreme brewing : an enthusiast’s guide to brewing craft beer at home, which will teach you all you need to know to home-made beer.

In this month’s Buyer’s Choice recent picks, the focus is on healthy and fresh food with over 100 hundred dishes put together by hyper chef Gordon Ramsay in his latest book Gordon Ramsay’s healthy appetite. He gives ideas and recipes for healthy breakfasts, lunches, barbecues, suppers, and desserts that follow on  his hugely successful Fast Food and Sunday Lunch. If you want to do more than eating fresh and healthy, follow the advice of Renee Loux in Easy Green Living as she demonstrates that being green at home is easy, affordable, and better for the environment, yourself and your family. And if you still crave more culinary adventures, check out Around the world in 80 dinners as the authors travel from Bali to South Africa via the Pacific and Asia to discover new and authentic flavours.  But if you’re not into cooking at all, still check out the Buyer’s Choice for a comprehensive history of pirates, a spotlight on African art and more.

Amongst our cooking recent picks for June you’ll find exquisite desserts to impress or just to indulge, decadent layered cakes and all manner of yummy slices. Plus, must-have Asian recipes (including fried spicy tempeh, scallop and snow pea sprout dumplings, Mongolian lamb, Balinese seafood curry, kheer rice pudding and kulfi) in Asian flavours : the Asian recipes you must have, Jane Webster’s foodie tours of Paris, and tasty cookbooks for diabetes and coeliac’s disease.

In this month’s cooking recent picks, explore the cheese ripening caves of Tallegio, the underground cellars of Gorgonzola and the alpine delights of Gruyere; read James Lileks’s acerbic, off-the-wall commentary on a remarkable assortment of questionable culinary creations from the golden age of American cookery and ads heralding the latest in kitchen technology (a bacon-egger?); and discover Italian regional cooking, Sardinian-style.