The folks at New Holland are very pleased about this -

The Washington Post has included two Kyle Cathie cookbooks in their list of top cookbooks for 2010:

 Forgotten Skills of Cooking, by Darina Allen


 Essential Diabetes Cookbook, by Antony Worrall Thompson

The list has great influence over the book buying public in the USA; and with 2 out of 10 spots, we expect that Kyle Cathie will continue to grow its place in the international market as one of the world’s leading cook book publishers.

We at New Holland are proud to be exclusive distributors of Kyle Cathie in New Zealand and look forward to more exciting releases from them next year, as their list continues to grow and as they represent big names in the foodie world.

And Darina Allen, author of Forgotten Skills of Cooking, one of The Washington Post’s picks, will be in Auckland for a special evening at Cook the Books on Thursday 16 December 2010, at 6pm.

Tickets for this event are strictly limited. $10pp, fully redeemable on any purchase from Cook the Books on the night.

Contact Cook the Books to reserve your place - books@cookthebooks.co.nz / 09 360 6513

For the full list of The Washington post’s top 10 cook book picks for 2010, please click here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/30/AR2010113003035.html

FORGOTTEN SKILLS OF COOKING

The Time-Honoured Ways are the Best: Over 700 recipes show you why
By Darina Allen

The Forgotten Skills courses at Darina Allen’s Ballymaloe Cookery School are always oversubscribed, as people discover that producing food at home can be easy and, what’s more, hugely rewarding.
In this book, Darina reconnects you to the skills people had before mass production took over. Techniques such as smoking mackerel, curing bacon and making yogurt and butter are broken down and explained in the simplest terms. There is also plenty of useful advice on growing vegetables, salad and herbs, so that even those with the smallest garden plot or even just a window box can learn what can be grown realistically at home.

With over 300 recipes on how to use your home produce to best advantage, and stunning colour photography, this is the definitive modern guide to traditional cookery skills.

Forgotten Skills of Cooking is one of three Kyle Cathie titles that was shortlisted for the prestigious Andre Simon food and drink book awards for 2009. Only six titles in total were on the shortlist.