Newsletter: 📚 A trio of books from Trish Deseine + St Patrick’s Day food aplenty ☘

‘I made a conscious decision when I started writing cookbooks not to make it into a science or an education. I wanted to stay on a level with the readers of my books, who mostly didn’t go to culinary school’. Trish Deseine

Kicking off our St Patrick’s Day celebrations we have three books from hugely popular Irish-French food writer Trish Deseine, newly added to ckbk.

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Author profile: Trish Deseine

To celebrate the addition to ckbk of several cookbooks by Irish-French author Trish Deseine, and with an eye on the impending St Patrick’s Day celebrations, we spoke to Trish about her Irish roots, her love of the regional cooking of France, and some of the dishes which have meant the most to her over the years.

Newsletter: Go green with garden-to-table cooking + indulge with Cookiepedia

Canadian Luay Gharafi, the author of Seed to Table: A Seasonal Guide to Organically Growing, Cooking and Preserving Food at Home, joined his local Community Supported Agriculture program in 2009 and was immediately hooked. From there he went on to study in Toronto, enrolling in George Brown University's culinary arts program. In his food, fresh produce, and its cultivation, comes first.

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