AN exciting parcel arrived on my desk today, a present from a past student who wanted me to have a copy of her first cook book.

Lulu and the Noisy Baby by Camilla Reid and Ailie Busby (Bloomsbury, €8.30) 

George Harrison Living In The Material World

ICONIC American food writer, Colman Andrews’ beautiful new cook book has just been published. Colman fell in love with Irish food and hospitality when he ate bacon and cabbage, and apple tart, in Peter and Mary Ward’s kitchen in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, in 2002.

From James McNair’s Squash Cookbook, published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, Serves 6.