The Food of France by editor Kay Halsey – part of a five book series, and as with the other books, this one gives you a real taste of the country. Each recipe is accompanied by a photograph of the finished dish as well as some great step-by-step photographs. The new soft cover version of the book is exceptional value for money. All the classics are here from a variety of soufflés, pâtés and soups, to hearty stews and roasts, as well as a delicious selection of desserts. At Wickedfood Cooking School we use this book as a sauce of reference for our French cooking classes. If you are looking for one good book on French cuisine, this is it.

Wickedfood Cooking School

Sunninghill – (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Boksburg – (011) 823-5365 boksburg@wickedfood.co.za

Runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studios. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.

At Wickedfood cooking school we find Fergus Henderson’s approach to cooking whacky, wonderful and deliciously different. He plunges you into his imaginative, energetic kitchen where you keep boiled hams up your sleeves, and squish the tomatoes in your hands, giving your dish a slight blush. Nose to Tail Eating (Pan MacMillan) is a truly British cookbook, in which Henderson tackles the whole beast, with seldom-tried dishes from Pigs’ Trotters stuffed with Potato to Roast Bone Marrow, from Gratin of Tripe to Haggis, Lambs’ Tongues, Turnips and Bacon, and Stuffed Lambs’ Hearts, as well as many other simple traditional and non-carnivore favourites.

“I have sung the praises of how the pig’s snout and belly both have that special lip-sticking quality of fat and flesh merging, but this occurs in no part of the animal as wonderfully as on the tail” Try his Crispy Pigs’ Tails! Henderson’s methods are precise and humorous and his wholehearted enthusiasm in writing about food infuses the reader with delight. His recipes are not about replicating restaurant plates of food, but about plunging into communal cooking and eating at home with friends – as his unusual photographs depict – defenatly dishes to try in a future cooking class.

Wickedfood Cooking School

Sunninghill – (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Boksburg – (011) 823-5365 boksburg@wickedfood.co.za

Runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studios. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.

It is really gratifying to see the number of well produced world standard cookbooks that are starting to be published in South Africa. Prickly pears & pomegranates is top of that pile. It not only has a number of scrumptious recipes in it, it is also beautifully photographed and laid out, a great present. Later in the year, Wickedfood cooking school will be using it as our cookbook of the month, watch out for a great evening.

Wickedfood Cooking School

Sunninghill – (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Boksburg – (011) 823-5365 boksburg@wickedfood.co.za

Runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studios. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.

Wickedfood cooking school has specially imported A Passion for Thai Cooking, filled with over 100 easy-to-follow, authentic recipes, compiled by Sompon Nabnian, internationally recognized TV chef personality and owner of the Chiang Mai Thai Cooking School. The books are available from the Wickedfood at R150 each. Any student attending a Thai cooking class or interested Thai food should have a copy of this book.

Click here for a recipe from the book.

Other books reviewed by Wickedfood on Asian food:

Secrets of the Red Lantern

Kylie Kwong: Recipes and Stories

Balance & Harmony, Asian Food

Great Asian recipes – Click here:

Kaeng kari ka - yellow curried chicken

Phanaeng Beef Curry in sweet peanut sauce

Phat Thai

Tom yum kung

Green pawpaw salad

Fish head curry

Warm squid salad in a pineapple

Spiced pork spare ribs

Deep-fried silken tofu

Thai beef salad

3 Cup Chicken

Wickedfood Cooking School

Sunninghill – (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Wickedfood cooking school runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studios. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.

Claudia Roden is one of the most articulate and inspirational food and cookery writers and is an authority on Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cuisines. She was born to a cosmopolitan Jewish family in Cairo, where she grew up eating, and questioning the origin of food from all over the Middle East. She began by collating recipes at a young age from everybody she met, from family members to virtual strangers. Claudia’s meticulously researched first book, A Book of Middle Eastern Food (1968), transformed Western attitudes towards this then little-known cuisine. Claudia has also written authoritatively about Mediterranean, Italian and Jewish food. In her latest book, Arabesque she gives tips on cooking Middle Eastern food at home. The book takes readers on a mouthwatering culinary journey from Morocco through Turkey to Lebanon. This book has been a great inspiration for Wickedfood cooking school, especially our Middle Eastern cooking class, Moroccan cooking classes and Turkish cooking classes, See our recipe of the week for one of book’s dishes – Spinach and Beans with Caramelized Onions

Wickedfood Cooking School

Sunninghill – (011) 234-3252 sunninghill@wickedfood.co.za

Wickedfood Cooking School runs cooking classes throughout the year at its purpose-built cooking studios. Classes are run in the mornings and evenings 7 days a week (subject to a minimum of 12 people). The venue is also popular for corporate events and private functions – team building cooking classes, birthdays, kitchen teas, and dinner parties with a difference.

Our classes are hands-on, where every person gets to participate in the preparation of the dishes. They are also a lot of fun where you not only learn new skills, but get to meet people with similar interests. For corporate groups and teambuilding cooking classes these classes are a novel way of creating staff interaction or entertaining clients.