Alice Kelly set up @FromScratchBaker in early 2022 after purchasing a disused horsebox for €600. Turning a renovation project into a successful business, Alice began posting her baking experiences – both the successes and the failures – on TikTok and soon amassed a dedicated following, with millions of followers around the world.In From Scratch: 80 Foolproof Recipes by @fromscratchbaker, from Easy Traybakes to Showstopping Cakes, her hotly anticipated debut book, Alice provides a sweet mix of easy recipes, demystifies patisserie, breaks down advanced concepts to make them accessible, reveals the secrets behind her viral bakes and, above all, makes baking fun for anyone!

In Ireland, a pint – having one, going for one, buying one – is a cultural institution. It’s about so much more than 568ml of beer in a glass. But how did a simple pint become such a phenomenon? In A Compendium of Irish Pints, Ali Dunworth delves into the culture, customs and craic surrounding pints in Ireland, from airport pints to unplanned pints, pints for celebrations and pints for commiserations, festival pints, quiet pints, crisps and pints and everything in between.With illustrations by Stephen Heffernan, aka Hephee, that perfectly capture the culture of pints in his iconic style, you’ll find yourself working up a thirst and sending that text we all love to get: ‘Pint?’

An Irish Food Calendar explores the traditions, stories and seasonal rhythms that have shaped Ireland's culinary identity. Travelling through the Irish year, it uncovers forgotten customs alongside enduring practices, from New Year's bread rituals and St Brigid's Day traditions to the gathering of wild plants, sea herbs and seasonal harvests. Drawing on folklore from the Dúchas Schools’ Collection, historical sources and 15 years of the author’s own research into Ireland’s contemporary wild foods, Jp McMahon reveals how landscape, climate, belief and community have always influenced what we eat while reflecting on the future of Irish food in an increasingly multicultural society.Ultimately, An Irish Food Calendar is a celebration of Irish food as a living, ever-evolving culture and invites you to experience the rhythms of the year one season, one tradition and one meal at a time.

Blood. The Irish have been dining on it for centuries and they love it. It has sustained warriors in epic battles, staved off hunger, offered protection from bad luck and provided sustenance during winter. It’s been drawn from living animals and caught from dead ones, stuffed into guts and boiled until cooked or stirred into bloody porridges over turf fires. It’s even in the mortar of castle walls. Mostly we know it as the moody melange of blood and guts that completes the breakfast fry. But this food is older than potatoes, soda bread, whiskey, stout and coddle. Blood is an ancient food from a time when the Irish diet was one of milky, oaty, salty things. No surprise, then, that the best puddings are made when all four unite to form a singularly perfect food. Yet Ireland’s ancient tradition of consuming the fresh blood of animals as food is in danger of disappearing forever, and with it an intricate, nuanced foodway that ties together the history of Ireland, its people and their communities, rituals and recipes, craft and custom. Blood, Guts and Black Pudding charts the complete history of Ireland’s great pudding tradition, from pre-Christian times to the modern era, celebrating the many ways blood has been cooked, eaten and enjoyed, and questions what else is lost when the blood is gone.

On a quiet corner in Dublin tucked under a train bridge, there’s a spotted pig taking a wash in a claw-foot bath.‘Welcome to The Old Spot’, the hand-painted sign reads.Celebrating ten years on Bath Avenue, The Old Spot Cookbook gathers together the all-time favourite recipes at this award-winning gastropub, from mussels pil pil and short-rib lasagne to the daily pies and famous Sunday roasts with all the trimmings that have fans across the city.They’ve also shared some of their professional expertise that keep regulars coming back again and again, from chef’s tips and drink pairings to the mixology secrets that make The Old Spot cocktails some of the best in town. With their big-hearted hospitality and flavour-packed food, it’s no wonder The Old Spot has a clientele that ranges from famous faces to loyal locals – there are even regular dogs who the staff know by name – who all treat The Old Spot like an extension of their own home as much as their favourite local restaurant.Now you can bring some of that warmth into your own kitchen too.

In Filthy Queens, Dr Christina Wade looks at the history of beer alongside some of the biggest events in the story of Ireland. You’ll find 18th-century courtesans who had a wicked streak of beer snobbery and early medieval monks who wrote beer reviews so terrible any Untappd fan would feel right at home. There will be beer tastings, parties, music and wakes. You’ll meet thieves and murderers, saints and goddesses. You’ll hear stories of kings and paupers, witches and bishops, Irish, English and Vikings from the Late Iron Age all the way up to the early 20th century. And don’t forget the rules, from medieval edicts about malt quality to early modern water regulations. Of course, there will be some marked differences, notably the human sacrifice. And the zombies.Throughout the book, Christina also makes connections to tangible links to the past, whether it’s buildings that still dot the landscape, artefacts in museums, things you pass on your daily commute or the pint glass you drink out of. We’ve been drinking beer for millennia, so it’s a perfect way to embrace the past and those who lived in it. In the end, you’ll see that the history of beer is intimately intertwined with the history of us.

It’s never been a better time to be a food lover. We binge Bake Off, follow foodie influencers, queue for trending hotspots and scroll endlessly for ideas on what to cook next. But for all this appetite, how much do we really know about what goes on behind the scenes with our food? And what can we really do to change things? That’s where this handbook comes in. In Good Taste is a guide to the issues shaping our edible world today. It’s not exhaustive and it’s not meant to be preachy. It’s a starting point to help us see the bigger picture and find our place in it. Starting with a bird’s eye view of how the food system works (and why it urgently needs transforming), the book then covers: • The players: Who holds the power, makes decisions and to what extent, and what food policy means for our everyday lives. • The people: How global trade and colonisation created inequality and continue to shape what we eat – and who gets left behind. • The planet: How we got here – and what’s at stake for the environment and the climate. • Positive, practical change: Tangible ways food lovers can make an impact with what’s on our plates and beyond. If enough of us take an interest, we become powerful ingredients in making a difference in what really matters in food and drink today.

Selected as one of The Observer’s Food Books of the Year“Chef, rebel, activist, and all heart – Jess Murphy cooks the way she lives: fearlessly, with fierce flavour and zero pretence. I love her.” Yvette van Boven, cookbook author and journalistThe Kai Cookbook is the long-awaited collection of 100 of the restaurant’s best-loved dishes, from the legendary Kai fish fingers that they can’t take off the menu to showstopper cakes from the irresistible daily line-up on the bar.Kai is the Māori word for food, and Jess and Dave Murphy opened the door to their award-winning Galway restaurant in 2011 with a simple formula: high-quality produce, sourced locally and cooked intelligently. What’s in season will be on your plate.Part cookbook, part love letter to Jess’s adopted home in the West of Ireland, these recipes and recollections, all told in Jess’s distinctive voice, will capture your heart, just like this little restaurant has done to all who have eaten there.

When Denis Cotter opened Paradiso in Cork City in 1993, he wanted to create an exciting, modern, vegetable-based cuisine. The restaurant soon gained local and international recognition for its ground-breaking, flavour-driven food, and its dedication to local and seasonal produce was ahead of its time.Paradiso continued to evolve over the decades, becoming a much-loved part of Cork's food culture and remaining at the forefront of creative vegetable cooking. Along the way, a unique cuisine came into being, a style of cooking that grew into something that remains identifiably Paradiso.This new book captures the essence of Paradiso now, with just a nod to the past and an eye on the future. It is a collection of new and evolved recipes, presented in a way that reflects how the dishes are prepared and served in the restaurant. And there is a comprehensive section that will teach you how to make the core elements that are the building blocks of the kitchen, the things that deliver concentrated flavours and textures. With these building blocks, you will be able to bring a touch of Paradiso to everything you cook.

Butter Boy is the complete collection of all 152 articles and over 450 recipes from Paul Flynn's tenure as food writer for the Irish Times from November 2019 to October 2022. Paul's columns also chronicled what turned out to be the three most unusual and challenging years of our lives, when cooking and mealtimes took on new meaning.Having a cookery school has taught Paul that most people want tasty food that doesn't take hours to make, so that's exactly what these recipes are, using simple techniques that even the most novice cook can master. As Paul says, 'The most important thing is not to be afraid. Turn down the heat and keep calm.'Paul's food is simple, seasonal and family-oriented. It's designed to give comfort at any time of year because after a hard day, cooking dinner can be soothing and eating it can be comforting. Afterwards the world feels just that little bit better.Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, reading and cooking from Butter Boy is like spending time in the kitchen with an old friend.

In Irish Kitchen Cocktails, industry pro Oisin Davis shows you how easy it is to make cocktails with Irish spirits using everyday kitchen equipment. Ireland is home to some of the best distilleries on the planet, and it's no longer just whiskey. We're also creating incredible Irish gins, poitins, vodkas, rums, liqueurs, meads, vermouths and fruit distillates. Understanding the basics of cocktails will allow you to explore these Irish spirits in delicious - and easy - ways. Do you have a spoon and a large bowl? You can stir up the perfect punch for any kind of party, like Mrs Doyle's Iced Tea. Remember that NutriBullet you bought because you wanted to go on a smoothie diet? Dust it off and you can rock out a whole heap of frozen cocktails, like a Frozen Jameson, Ginger Ale & Lime. Got a decent-sized jug and a hand blender? You can lash together amazing cocktails in minutes, including a Wicklow Wanderer. Found yourself in a cocktail emergency? Be prepared with drinks such as The Ginger Divil. Slainte!

How does your food get on your plate? Where does it come from? How does it grow? How does it travel around the globe to get to you? And once you have it, how do you cook and eat it?Seed to Supper takes you through every stage of food's journey from its start as a seed in the soil to the table via the kitchen and everything - and everywhere! - in between.You'll not only learn how to grow, buy and cook food, you'll also learn how what we eat affects the planet and see how people eat and share food at dinner tables around the world. With cooking tips and easy recipes you can make yourself, DIY activities, interesting anecdotes and fascinating facts, follow your food from the ground up and see how food connects us all.

Cook: Traditional Irish Cooking with Modern Twists by Graham Herterich is structured around the unique way we eat in Ireland, broken up into the five mealtimes of breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea and supper.There is also a chapter dedicated to pork and bacon, inspired by Graham's childhood growing up over the family butcher shop. Graham flips the script on favourites like bacon and cabbage to turn it into cabbage and bacon, while Irish stew gets reimagined as a lamb tagine. Beloved Irish classics such as the ‘mammy salad’, a chicken fillet roll and our classic combo of lasagne, coleslaw and chips all feature alongside modern versions updated with the flavours and ingredients available to us now.Whether it’s a bowl of coddle or a spice bag, Cook shows that traditional and modern Irish cooking isn’t defined by what it is, but rather by what it does: it nurtures us, warms us and makes us who we are.

A butcher and a chef walk into a bar ... … and Dublin food history is made. And for Mains is the brainchild of Gareth Smith and Rick Higgins, a chef and a butcher with a passion for food and an even bigger passion for life.* This book was born out of a desire to share their knowledge, stories and recipes with the people who they know love all the same things that they do. Gaz and Rick have been firm friends and business partners ever since Gaz first sourced Rick’s steaks for his Dublin restaurant, Michael’s. Over the years they have made many a deal over a coin toss and come up with many a curveball for the restaurant over pints (cows’ lips, anyone?). In this, their first cookbook, they combine the recipes for meat feasts, seafood classics and a few of those curveballs that Gaz is renowned for with stories of the food scene in Ireland, from the inside scoop on Irish beef to the reality of crab fishing in the Irish Sea. Once you’ve sat down to a table overflowing with seafood, meat, shellfish and sides, there will be only one question left to ask: and for mains? *By which we mean pints, obviously.

This is not a conventional cookbook, and it’s not a food memoir either. It’s a punk masaalchi’s kitchen manifesto: a book about flavour, instinct, rhythm and confidence. Arun Kapil looks at food, culture and the everyday kitchen in a fresh way for modern lives. He also shares practical templates designed to help you think in flavour patterns, deploy spice with intent and turn whatever you’ve got – eggs, tins, leftovers, freezer bits, half a loaf, a spoonful of yoghurt, the dregs of a jar of chutney – into dinner. And the best part is that you won’t just cook tonight. You will cook better, faster and with more joy. You will begin to trust your own hand more. You will understand a little more about balance, flavour and memory and how culture lives in the pan as much as on the plate. Most of all, Masaalchi shows you that cooking is not a test to be passed, but a life to be lived – sometimes quickly and sometimes scrappily, but always with appetite.

Graham Herterich, aka The Cupcake Bloke, has always been fascinated by taking classic Irish recipes and giving them a modern twist. By classic, he means bakes like soda bread, tarts, porter cake and brack all the way up to modern classics like jambons, cheesecakes and fifteens.In Bake: Traditional Irish Baking with Modern Twists, every recipe for a traditional bake is followed by a fresh new spin using the ingredients available in Ireland now, from advieh to zhug. It may not be an exact update of the recipe - it could be a modern interpretation of the flavour combination or the concept, like a classic coffee and walnut cake reimagined as a coffee and walnut pavlova with coffee poached pears.Food is a powerful link to our past, so writing the book also became a trip down the memory lane of Graham's childhood, teens and early twenties through to the last few years, when he became more confident in his food, flavours, inspirations and textures and realised that baking is more than just an action - it's an invitation to the people you are going to share it with, a symbol of generosity and a gesture of love.

Alice Kelly set up @FromScratchBaker in early 2022 after purchasing a disused horsebox for €600. Turning a renovation project into a successful business, Alice began posting her baking experiences – both the successes and the failures – on TikTok and soon amassed a dedicated following, with millions of followers around the world.In From Scratch: 80 Foolproof Recipes by @fromscratchbaker, from Easy Traybakes to Showstopping Cakes, her hotly anticipated debut book, Alice provides a sweet mix of easy recipes, demystifies patisserie, breaks down advanced concepts to make them accessible, reveals the secrets behind her viral bakes and, above all, makes baking fun for anyone!

In Ireland, a pint – having one, going for one, buying one – is a cultural institution. It’s about so much more than 568ml of beer in a glass. But how did a simple pint become such a phenomenon? In A Compendium of Irish Pints, Ali Dunworth delves into the culture, customs and craic surrounding pints in Ireland, from airport pints to unplanned pints, pints for celebrations and pints for commiserations, festival pints, quiet pints, crisps and pints and everything in between.With illustrations by Stephen Heffernan, aka Hephee, that perfectly capture the culture of pints in his iconic style, you’ll find yourself working up a thirst and sending that text we all love to get: ‘Pint?’

An Irish Food Calendar explores the traditions, stories and seasonal rhythms that have shaped Ireland's culinary identity. Travelling through the Irish year, it uncovers forgotten customs alongside enduring practices, from New Year's bread rituals and St Brigid's Day traditions to the gathering of wild plants, sea herbs and seasonal harvests. Drawing on folklore from the Dúchas Schools’ Collection, historical sources and 15 years of the author’s own research into Ireland’s contemporary wild foods, Jp McMahon reveals how landscape, climate, belief and community have always influenced what we eat while reflecting on the future of Irish food in an increasingly multicultural society.Ultimately, An Irish Food Calendar is a celebration of Irish food as a living, ever-evolving culture and invites you to experience the rhythms of the year one season, one tradition and one meal at a time.

Blood. The Irish have been dining on it for centuries and they love it. It has sustained warriors in epic battles, staved off hunger, offered protection from bad luck and provided sustenance during winter. It’s been drawn from living animals and caught from dead ones, stuffed into guts and boiled until cooked or stirred into bloody porridges over turf fires. It’s even in the mortar of castle walls. Mostly we know it as the moody melange of blood and guts that completes the breakfast fry. But this food is older than potatoes, soda bread, whiskey, stout and coddle. Blood is an ancient food from a time when the Irish diet was one of milky, oaty, salty things. No surprise, then, that the best puddings are made when all four unite to form a singularly perfect food. Yet Ireland’s ancient tradition of consuming the fresh blood of animals as food is in danger of disappearing forever, and with it an intricate, nuanced foodway that ties together the history of Ireland, its people and their communities, rituals and recipes, craft and custom. Blood, Guts and Black Pudding charts the complete history of Ireland’s great pudding tradition, from pre-Christian times to the modern era, celebrating the many ways blood has been cooked, eaten and enjoyed, and questions what else is lost when the blood is gone.

On a quiet corner in Dublin tucked under a train bridge, there’s a spotted pig taking a wash in a claw-foot bath.‘Welcome to The Old Spot’, the hand-painted sign reads.Celebrating ten years on Bath Avenue, The Old Spot Cookbook gathers together the all-time favourite recipes at this award-winning gastropub, from mussels pil pil and short-rib lasagne to the daily pies and famous Sunday roasts with all the trimmings that have fans across the city.They’ve also shared some of their professional expertise that keep regulars coming back again and again, from chef’s tips and drink pairings to the mixology secrets that make The Old Spot cocktails some of the best in town. With their big-hearted hospitality and flavour-packed food, it’s no wonder The Old Spot has a clientele that ranges from famous faces to loyal locals – there are even regular dogs who the staff know by name – who all treat The Old Spot like an extension of their own home as much as their favourite local restaurant.Now you can bring some of that warmth into your own kitchen too.

In Filthy Queens, Dr Christina Wade looks at the history of beer alongside some of the biggest events in the story of Ireland. You’ll find 18th-century courtesans who had a wicked streak of beer snobbery and early medieval monks who wrote beer reviews so terrible any Untappd fan would feel right at home. There will be beer tastings, parties, music and wakes. You’ll meet thieves and murderers, saints and goddesses. You’ll hear stories of kings and paupers, witches and bishops, Irish, English and Vikings from the Late Iron Age all the way up to the early 20th century. And don’t forget the rules, from medieval edicts about malt quality to early modern water regulations. Of course, there will be some marked differences, notably the human sacrifice. And the zombies.Throughout the book, Christina also makes connections to tangible links to the past, whether it’s buildings that still dot the landscape, artefacts in museums, things you pass on your daily commute or the pint glass you drink out of. We’ve been drinking beer for millennia, so it’s a perfect way to embrace the past and those who lived in it. In the end, you’ll see that the history of beer is intimately intertwined with the history of us.

It’s never been a better time to be a food lover. We binge Bake Off, follow foodie influencers, queue for trending hotspots and scroll endlessly for ideas on what to cook next. But for all this appetite, how much do we really know about what goes on behind the scenes with our food? And what can we really do to change things? That’s where this handbook comes in. In Good Taste is a guide to the issues shaping our edible world today. It’s not exhaustive and it’s not meant to be preachy. It’s a starting point to help us see the bigger picture and find our place in it. Starting with a bird’s eye view of how the food system works (and why it urgently needs transforming), the book then covers: • The players: Who holds the power, makes decisions and to what extent, and what food policy means for our everyday lives. • The people: How global trade and colonisation created inequality and continue to shape what we eat – and who gets left behind. • The planet: How we got here – and what’s at stake for the environment and the climate. • Positive, practical change: Tangible ways food lovers can make an impact with what’s on our plates and beyond. If enough of us take an interest, we become powerful ingredients in making a difference in what really matters in food and drink today.

Selected as one of The Observer’s Food Books of the Year“Chef, rebel, activist, and all heart – Jess Murphy cooks the way she lives: fearlessly, with fierce flavour and zero pretence. I love her.” Yvette van Boven, cookbook author and journalistThe Kai Cookbook is the long-awaited collection of 100 of the restaurant’s best-loved dishes, from the legendary Kai fish fingers that they can’t take off the menu to showstopper cakes from the irresistible daily line-up on the bar.Kai is the Māori word for food, and Jess and Dave Murphy opened the door to their award-winning Galway restaurant in 2011 with a simple formula: high-quality produce, sourced locally and cooked intelligently. What’s in season will be on your plate.Part cookbook, part love letter to Jess’s adopted home in the West of Ireland, these recipes and recollections, all told in Jess’s distinctive voice, will capture your heart, just like this little restaurant has done to all who have eaten there.

When Denis Cotter opened Paradiso in Cork City in 1993, he wanted to create an exciting, modern, vegetable-based cuisine. The restaurant soon gained local and international recognition for its ground-breaking, flavour-driven food, and its dedication to local and seasonal produce was ahead of its time.Paradiso continued to evolve over the decades, becoming a much-loved part of Cork's food culture and remaining at the forefront of creative vegetable cooking. Along the way, a unique cuisine came into being, a style of cooking that grew into something that remains identifiably Paradiso.This new book captures the essence of Paradiso now, with just a nod to the past and an eye on the future. It is a collection of new and evolved recipes, presented in a way that reflects how the dishes are prepared and served in the restaurant. And there is a comprehensive section that will teach you how to make the core elements that are the building blocks of the kitchen, the things that deliver concentrated flavours and textures. With these building blocks, you will be able to bring a touch of Paradiso to everything you cook.

Butter Boy is the complete collection of all 152 articles and over 450 recipes from Paul Flynn's tenure as food writer for the Irish Times from November 2019 to October 2022. Paul's columns also chronicled what turned out to be the three most unusual and challenging years of our lives, when cooking and mealtimes took on new meaning.Having a cookery school has taught Paul that most people want tasty food that doesn't take hours to make, so that's exactly what these recipes are, using simple techniques that even the most novice cook can master. As Paul says, 'The most important thing is not to be afraid. Turn down the heat and keep calm.'Paul's food is simple, seasonal and family-oriented. It's designed to give comfort at any time of year because after a hard day, cooking dinner can be soothing and eating it can be comforting. Afterwards the world feels just that little bit better.Warm, witty and laugh-out-loud funny, reading and cooking from Butter Boy is like spending time in the kitchen with an old friend.

In Irish Kitchen Cocktails, industry pro Oisin Davis shows you how easy it is to make cocktails with Irish spirits using everyday kitchen equipment. Ireland is home to some of the best distilleries on the planet, and it's no longer just whiskey. We're also creating incredible Irish gins, poitins, vodkas, rums, liqueurs, meads, vermouths and fruit distillates. Understanding the basics of cocktails will allow you to explore these Irish spirits in delicious - and easy - ways. Do you have a spoon and a large bowl? You can stir up the perfect punch for any kind of party, like Mrs Doyle's Iced Tea. Remember that NutriBullet you bought because you wanted to go on a smoothie diet? Dust it off and you can rock out a whole heap of frozen cocktails, like a Frozen Jameson, Ginger Ale & Lime. Got a decent-sized jug and a hand blender? You can lash together amazing cocktails in minutes, including a Wicklow Wanderer. Found yourself in a cocktail emergency? Be prepared with drinks such as The Ginger Divil. Slainte!

How does your food get on your plate? Where does it come from? How does it grow? How does it travel around the globe to get to you? And once you have it, how do you cook and eat it?Seed to Supper takes you through every stage of food's journey from its start as a seed in the soil to the table via the kitchen and everything - and everywhere! - in between.You'll not only learn how to grow, buy and cook food, you'll also learn how what we eat affects the planet and see how people eat and share food at dinner tables around the world. With cooking tips and easy recipes you can make yourself, DIY activities, interesting anecdotes and fascinating facts, follow your food from the ground up and see how food connects us all.

Cook: Traditional Irish Cooking with Modern Twists by Graham Herterich is structured around the unique way we eat in Ireland, broken up into the five mealtimes of breakfast, lunch, dinner, tea and supper.There is also a chapter dedicated to pork and bacon, inspired by Graham's childhood growing up over the family butcher shop. Graham flips the script on favourites like bacon and cabbage to turn it into cabbage and bacon, while Irish stew gets reimagined as a lamb tagine. Beloved Irish classics such as the ‘mammy salad’, a chicken fillet roll and our classic combo of lasagne, coleslaw and chips all feature alongside modern versions updated with the flavours and ingredients available to us now.Whether it’s a bowl of coddle or a spice bag, Cook shows that traditional and modern Irish cooking isn’t defined by what it is, but rather by what it does: it nurtures us, warms us and makes us who we are.

A butcher and a chef walk into a bar ... … and Dublin food history is made. And for Mains is the brainchild of Gareth Smith and Rick Higgins, a chef and a butcher with a passion for food and an even bigger passion for life.* This book was born out of a desire to share their knowledge, stories and recipes with the people who they know love all the same things that they do. Gaz and Rick have been firm friends and business partners ever since Gaz first sourced Rick’s steaks for his Dublin restaurant, Michael’s. Over the years they have made many a deal over a coin toss and come up with many a curveball for the restaurant over pints (cows’ lips, anyone?). In this, their first cookbook, they combine the recipes for meat feasts, seafood classics and a few of those curveballs that Gaz is renowned for with stories of the food scene in Ireland, from the inside scoop on Irish beef to the reality of crab fishing in the Irish Sea. Once you’ve sat down to a table overflowing with seafood, meat, shellfish and sides, there will be only one question left to ask: and for mains? *By which we mean pints, obviously.

This is not a conventional cookbook, and it’s not a food memoir either. It’s a punk masaalchi’s kitchen manifesto: a book about flavour, instinct, rhythm and confidence. Arun Kapil looks at food, culture and the everyday kitchen in a fresh way for modern lives. He also shares practical templates designed to help you think in flavour patterns, deploy spice with intent and turn whatever you’ve got – eggs, tins, leftovers, freezer bits, half a loaf, a spoonful of yoghurt, the dregs of a jar of chutney – into dinner. And the best part is that you won’t just cook tonight. You will cook better, faster and with more joy. You will begin to trust your own hand more. You will understand a little more about balance, flavour and memory and how culture lives in the pan as much as on the plate. Most of all, Masaalchi shows you that cooking is not a test to be passed, but a life to be lived – sometimes quickly and sometimes scrappily, but always with appetite.

Graham Herterich, aka The Cupcake Bloke, has always been fascinated by taking classic Irish recipes and giving them a modern twist. By classic, he means bakes like soda bread, tarts, porter cake and brack all the way up to modern classics like jambons, cheesecakes and fifteens.In Bake: Traditional Irish Baking with Modern Twists, every recipe for a traditional bake is followed by a fresh new spin using the ingredients available in Ireland now, from advieh to zhug. It may not be an exact update of the recipe - it could be a modern interpretation of the flavour combination or the concept, like a classic coffee and walnut cake reimagined as a coffee and walnut pavlova with coffee poached pears.Food is a powerful link to our past, so writing the book also became a trip down the memory lane of Graham's childhood, teens and early twenties through to the last few years, when he became more confident in his food, flavours, inspirations and textures and realised that baking is more than just an action - it's an invitation to the people you are going to share it with, a symbol of generosity and a gesture of love.