The ultimate cookbook gift guide for Christmas
With the perception abroad that recession is receding, the trend for comfort food is now giving way to a surge of interest in ‘healthy’ eating, whatever that means, one person’s ‘healthy’ being another’s exercise in tortuous deprivation. Either way, the publishers have all bases covered.
Irish author Susan Jane White scored a hit with The Extra Virgin Kitchen and looks set to replicate that success with The Virtuous Tart (Gill & Macmillan) while Neven Maguire’s common sense and very user-friendly take on the trend, The Nation’s Favourite Healthy Food (Gill & Macmillan) will not overly alarm traditionalists.
