cookery book

One day, while my husband was busily at work, I sat beside him reading an old cookery book called The Compleat Housewife: or Accomplish'd Gentlewoman's Companion.

It was a cookery book, full of innumerable old fashions of English dishes, and illustrated with engravings, which represented the arrangements of the table at such banquets as it might have befitted a nobleman to give in the great hall of his castle.

She has written two published cookery books, Miss Masala and Masala, and has also been featured on television.

He has authored several cookery books, such as My Stir-fried life and Foolproof Asian Cookery .

He's since penned three cookery books and is currently writing a fourth, co-presents the Chopping Block cookery series with Rosemary Shrager and has opened his own cookery school.

But the victory served him well: he's since penned three cookery books, and co-presents the Chopping Block cookery series with Rosemary Shrager.

But Mary - who grew up with rationing, turned 80 in March and has written more than 70 cookery books since the late Sixties - is softer on other 'new' ingredients, including the basil she grows in the garden of her beautiful Buckinghamshire home.

The publisher, which employs 10 people, has published 15 regional dining guides and cookery books over the years and plans on another four in 2014.

Former model and cookery expert Mary Morris opened a cake shop in Chichester, West Sussex, wrote cookery books and worked with fitness expert Rosemary Conley.