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Made in Bangladesh: Recipes and stories from a home kitchen

By Dina Begum
Taking you through the six Bangladeshi seasons – summer, monsoon, autumn, late autumn, winter and spring – with warming flavours and memories teaching modern classics and age-old recipes to home cooks. Puchka (potato & chickpea filled pastry shells with tamarind sauce), Tenga  (light & sour fish stew with green tomatoes), Narkel diye murghi (steamed chicken in a spiced coconut paste), Tehari (aromatic beef and rice cooked with mustard oil & chillies) and Dhood puli pitha (coconut-stuffed rice flour dumplings in molasses milk) are just a few of the enticing dishes she shares.

French Boulangerie: Recipes and Techniques from the Ferrandi School of Culinary Arts

By Ferrandi Paris
From crunchy baguettes to fig bread, and from traditional brioches to trendy cruffins, this comprehensive volume teaches aspiring bakers how to master the art of the French boulangerie. This cookbook focuses on bread and viennoiserie, the category of French baked goods traditionally enjoyed for breakfast. Here, the culinary school’s team of experienced chef instructors provides more than 40 techniques in 220 step-by-step instructions. Make your own poolish or levain to kneading, shaping, and scoring various types of loaves, and laminating butter to braiding brioches.  
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I’ll Bake!: Something delicious for every occasion

By Liberty Mendez
These delicious baking recipes fit into a busy lifestyle; a quick snack or comforting pudding with whatever is left in the fridge, creating a cake that you can take to your friend’s birthday without fear of it falling apart, or cooking an impressive dinner party dish after a couple of glasses of wine. I’ll Bake! has the perfect dish for every occasion. Not only can all of the recipes be made in five steps or under, there’s an at-a-glance guide to which recipes are vegan, dairy free and gluten free and time-saving tips and easy alternatives to help suit an assortment of dietary needs.

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Liquid Assets tries to hibernate

Nature takes the lead Simple, intuitive maintenance and a wide range of colours make Porcelanosa’s large format surfaces for floors and walls the ideal choice. Porcelanosa Channel your inner snow queen. Get under the covers, run yourself a warm bath

La vie en blu…Québecois style

Noteable for its playful atmosphere, eclectic interior design and whimsical experiences, Monsieur Jean -Hotel Particulier is one of the newer entries into the Québec City hospitality marketplace.  Not to be missed, Monsieur Jean’s vibrant blue entranceway is front and centre

Citrus Season Is Served

 Citrus Season Is Served – Winter Cocktails That Shine   When winter’s chill settles in, we crave brightness wherever we can find it—and few things lift a grey afternoon like a splash of citrus. Freshly squeezed juice or a fragrant

Timeless elegance…in Baroque style

When I stumbled off the night train from Transylvania at 5 am, distinctly the worse for wear, Tamas at the front desk of Budapest’s New York Palace Hotel didn’t blink. Within minutes, as if this were an everyday occurrence, which

Liquid Assets tries to hibernate

The Hug Tub Designed by Matteo Nunziati, this tub is part of a marble shell bathroom collection embedded with an elegant frontal shelf. kreoo.com Channel your inner snow queen. Get under the covers, run yourself a warm bath and take

Bella Cucina turns up the heat

A made-to-measure With no detail left to chance, everything in this custom kitchen fits perfectly to scale. humphreymunson.co.uk Too many cooks may spoil the broth so stake your claim and make sure the kitchen is your most cherished part of