Nistisima: The secret to delicious Mediterranean vegan food, the Sunday Times bestseller and voted OFM Best Cookbook

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I started in Greece and Cyprus and looked at other countries with a big Orthodox following such as Serbia, Syria, Ukraine, Lebanon and more.

Georgina Hayden – Feeding since 1982

The book is a freewheeling foray into the island nation’s food culture, with beautiful photographs shot on location in Sri Lanka, as well as favourite dishes from the restaurants themselves, including the hoppers (pillowy rice and coconut pancakes) for which it is named. While we wait for Cynthia's restaurant of the same name to open in Borough Market, the time could be spent fruitfully devouring her debut cookbook.

Fans of Yotam Ottolenghi may already be familiar with the author’s name, as Belfrage worked at NOPI and at Ottolenghi’s Test Kitchen, and co-authored Flavour with the chef and restaurateur in 2020.

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It's time for our yearly run-down of the best cookbooks of the year,with a particular focus on the books created by the people behind London's great restaurants. This is a confusing concept for a book, the cover says it's vegan cooking but many recipes use so much honey, which is easy enough to substitute and there's constant references to meat 'this one should have beef in but tastes so good I promise you won't miss it' 'this one is good with seafood ' 'this often includes chunks of chicken or pork'. I made a YouTube channel about 50 million years later than the rest of the world and put them all on there. I’ve been looking for vegan cookbooks where I feel I’m getting the most of them rather than using the odd few recipes. Mervis really understands and appreciates British food, and his perspective is thought-provoking – enticing readers to enjoy all its delicious quirks and nuances.

In 2022, cookbook sales were down somewhat since the height of the pandemic, but sales remain buoyant and there is a multitude of books for every level of cook.

Nistisima: The secret to delicious Mediterranean vegan food Nistisima: The secret to delicious Mediterranean vegan food

If your kitchen bookshelf already has some of Jose's wonderful cookbooks, it's time to make room for this, his latest. On hearing about a book with recipes devoted to food you eat while fasting, you would be forgiven for finding the concept either befuddling or unappealing, but in this particular instance you would be wrong. Lee’s delicious prose is like a long, slow braise, making this is a cookbook that doubles as bedside reading. It’s made me want to focus more on plant based meals, take time over them and celebrate them in the same way. Sharp with vinegar and zingy with Scotch bonnets, it’s a recipe that demonstrates the islands’ complex social history in a single delicious dish.When the pie is ready, brush with the harissa garlic oil, discarding the garlic clove, and leave the pie to stand for at least 15 minutes. The colourful recipes in this, her debut cookbook, sing with big, bold flavours – they’re a hedonistic mash-up, combining tastes and textures from far-flung places. I fast, and there are many people who do it just because they want to have familiarity and connection with their ancestors, their relatives or smells from home. This first cookbook from the popular London restaurant group is bound to find its way into many fans' homes as a gift. These books (and the others in our round-up) will earn their place on bookshelves – and in the kitchen – for years to come.