A Toast To Cook Books

Each with its own taste.

- Sakina Maniar

A significant development is brewing in the publishing world where the adage is: The Road to success is paved with cook books’! These culinary directories serve stimulating recipes with a generous helpings of cooking adventure.

Enter any bookstore and you are sure to be drawn by aroma of some enticing titles: Foods of Earth Tastes of Heaven, Vegetarian Wonders, Hot and Spicy, A bit between the Teeth, Fast Foods made easy, Recipe for Lovers, Baker’s Fiesta! Whether you are an amateur chef, an avid gourmand, a judicious connoisseur or an adept cook, you’ll invariably pick up a few before they vanish from the shelves like hot cakes.

Cook books make delicious read and have become contenders in the field of fiction being as engrossing as suspense thrillers. The tempting garnish and accompaniments transport one through piquant flavours of Chinese, Thai Mexican, Mughlai, Continental and other global cuisines. Seasoned with sentiment, the graphic outlay lift the spirit and hold ardour of readers.

The tradition of English cookery has been recorded throughout British history and some classics include:

A formed of cury – compiled by Richard II’s cook