Advantages: Variety of recipes that are hard to find elsewhere, cakes of all kinds represented. Disadvantages: Some recipes need hard to find ingredients or equipment
As my sister and I have an ongoing challenge to make a new sweet and savoury recipe every week, I get through a lot of recipe books. That's the excuse I use to buy more anyway, especially if they are second-hand and very cheap! I bought Julie Duff's "Cake ...
Advantages: Lots of info: just enough depth for you to get started on aspects of interest! Disadvantages: Hardback isn't really grab-friendly or easy for up-the-garden reference!
Ok, I make no apologies- I really like this book! Even though our thoroughly urban lifestyle dictates that we can't implement all of its lovely ideas, it's just a good read anyway which gives rise to plenty of food for thought! What's it all about? Th ...
Advantages: Beautifully presented book, Denise's diary entries are very good Disadvantages: Too much emphasis on diet and exercise
When I found out I was pregnant, my partner and I were both thrilled, as it was planned and very much wanted. I had been pregnant before and have four children already, yet they were all born in the 1990s and I hadnt been pregnant for over fifteen years ...
Advantages: Interesting, brill illustrations, written well Disadvantages: None
I have recently started watching a weekly series on Channel 4 which is called 'The Food Hospital'. In this programme, people go into the clinic with problems such as acne, depression, ecezema, obesity and even breast cancer and the doctors try to cure the ...
Advantages: Everything, layout, so much information that is easy to read Disadvantages: None at all
I wouldn't describe myself as a reader or up until recently someone who believed in self help for ailments. I have always believed if I have a cold I should take antibiotics, if I have depression I should be prescribed antipressents and so on and I always ...
