American food writer Mindy Fox's The Perfectly Roasted Chicken (Kyle Books) offers 20 different ways to roast chicken as well as recipes for sides, then numerous ones for salads, soups, pasta and other dishes such as sandwiches and pies using what is left over.
There are many enticing recipes here.
The well-travelled Jamaican sisters, restaurateurs and caterers, share their contemporary takes on traditional Caribbean dishes as well as original creations.
They predominantly use Caribbean ingredients, spices and seasonings, sometimes fused with Italian and other Mediterranean favourites to which they have added their own twist: jerked chicken lasagna, Mummy's roast pork with cracklin' and rum gravy, Trini corn pie, or a caramelised banana and coconut creme brulee.
It covers the range of food: baking including breads and desserts, of course, which are probably the most difficult for those on a gluten-free diet, and also starters and mains.
An attractively produced and illustrated book.
Aegean Flavours, (Jacqui Small LLP) by New York-trained Didem Senol Tiryakioglu, Istanbul's leading female chef and best chef at the Time Out Istanbul awards, is full of regional recipes from around the Turkish Aegean coast.
She describes visiting several towns and their markets and each section's recipes are inspired by what she finds at that market.
Subtitled ''A culinary celebration of Turkish cuisine from hot smoked lamb to baked figs'' it includes simple but enticing things such as carrot soup with coriander seeds, or olives marinated with lavender, baked pumpkin with vanilla sauce, scrambled egg with courgette and spring onion, aubergine stuffed with stewed lamb, lamb shanks with chickpeas, or hazelnut cake with chocolate sauce.
An informative and deliciously illustrated book.
