Susan Low
My top cookbooks of 2024
These are the cookbooks and food books that have most inspired me in 2024. And, yes, they make excellent Christmas presents.
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Susan Low
May 316 min read
My top cookbook picks
Part 1 of my pick of new cookbooks and food books from spring and summer 2024.
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Susan Low
Dec 9, 20233 min read
2023’s best food books
Every year I think, Surely there can't be as many brilliant books published as there was last year – but every year I'm impressed by the...
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Susan Low
Apr 16, 20234 min read
Diaspora dishes: immigration, emigration – and three great new cookbooks
A California-based journalist contacted me recently for quotes for a piece he was researching on the British food scene. “How much has...
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Susan Low
Jan 2, 20232 min read
The year that was, in cookbooks
2022 was a brilliant year for cookbooks. In terms of quality, range, depth and sheer ‘interestingness’, there was so much talent out...
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Susan Low
Sep 21, 20222 min read
Just published: The British Cook Book
The best cookbooks are the ones that make you think. The good ones might introduce you to a new cuisine, take you away to a different...
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Susan Low
Aug 7, 20221 min read
About so much more than 'just dumplings'...
The postman brought me this beautiful new book by @zuzazakcooks the other morning. I couldn't resist stealing a few moments and poring...
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Susan Low
Feb 13, 20222 min read
Nistisima – hitting bookshelves soon...
Once in a while, a book comes across your desk that makes you think: Genius! This handsome cookbook from Georgina Hayden is one of those....
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Susan Low
Feb 3, 20223 min read
Annabel Abbs: the writer who's bringing Eliza Acton into the 21st century
"I want to put Eliza back on the stage where I think she belongs," says Annabel Abbs, author of the just-published (February 3)...
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Susan Low
Dec 24, 20212 min read
(Some of) my top cookbooks of 2021
I suspect no one’s going to argue with me when I say that 2021 left some room for improvement. It’s been a tough year for so many people,...
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Susan Low
Dec 17, 20211 min read
A book to kindle the festive spirit...
This beautiful book by Lucy Brazier and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was published in mid-October, and I’ve been slowly dipping in and...
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Susan Low
Oct 1, 20211 min read
They say never to experiment on guests...
But that's advice I ignore. I figure, if I can't try out new dishes, recipes and flavours on my friends, then who can I try them out on?...
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Susan Low
Sep 10, 20211 min read
Baking with Fortitude
This book isn't out until October 14 but I was lucky enough to be sent and advance copy. And what a book... I often say that I'm not a...
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Susan Low
Aug 25, 20211 min read
The cookbook I wouldn't part with...
If you're a cookbook lover like me, chances are that you have certain books that you just wouldn't part with. You might not cook from...
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Susan Low
Apr 13, 20212 min read
"A memoir of love, migration and food"
When you're a food writer, people are always wanting to know which food books you'd recommend. The Settler's Cookbook by Yasmin...
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Susan Low
Mar 25, 20212 min read
Ripe Figs by Yasmin Khan
I’d been anticipating the arrival of this book, the third from Yasmin Khan, for months – and it has been worth the wait. Before she took...
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Susan Low
Mar 18, 20211 min read
My Shanghai by Betty Liu
This beautiful book arrived the other day and I’m finding it hard to put down. It’s written by Boston (US)-based photographer and ...
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