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The River Cottage Family Cookbook will inspire everyone with the magic and fun of cooking.

Any food fan visiting the culinary emporium Dean & DeLuca in New York for the first time can’t help but be overwhelmed by the possibilities—row upon row of the high quality ingredients that almost make you wish you were in the catering business so you could spend your days, and your clients’ money, stocking up at the store. Now Dean & DeLuca has sponsored a cookbook that is as chock full of eye-popping food as the store itself.

Simon Hopkinson’s much-admired Roast Chicken and Other Stories now appears (unchanged) in Ebury Press’s uniform paperback cookbook series, following its original publication in 1995 and a subsequent paperback career.

The Walnut Tree Inn, created by Ann and Franco Taruschio in a tiny Welsh hamlet thirty years ago, is a well-known British restuarant. In this book Franco Taruschio imparts his lifetime’s experience, reflecting the complex influences from as far afield as Italy, Wales and the Far East, that have shaped his cooking. The recipes include dishes as diverse as bacon and leek soup from Belgium, fish soup from Italy, Welsh lamb, English partridge and Sicilian cheesecake.