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1001 Restaurants You Must Experience Before You Die by Jenny Linford (General Editor); Jay Rayner (Foreword by)
Category: Food and Drink
The world is full of wonderful places to eat, and this mouthwatering, globe-trotting guide features 1001 of the very best. Gourmets with an appetite for good food in gorgeous settings will find their taste buds tingling with anticipation as they flip through this book. The featured eateries range from b ...Show more
A Greedy Man in a Hungry World: Why (Almost) Everything You Thought You Knew About Food is Wrong by Jay Rayner
Category: Diet Cook Books
Now with a new epilogue, the UK's most influential food and drink journalist shoots a few sacred cows of food culture. Buying 'locally' does no good. Farmers' markets are merely a lifestyle choice. And 'organic' is little more than a marketing label, way past its sell by date. This may be a little hard ...Show more
Chewing the Fat - Tasting Notes from a Greedy Life by Jay Rayner
Category: Food and Drink
'This is Rayner at his rambunctious best: upfront, full-fat, and always deliciously written.' Nigella Lawson'A sophisticated palate and a fiery, comic tongue. Jay Rayner's food writing is brilliant.' Stanley TucciWhy are gravy stains on your shirt at the dinner table to be admired?Does bacon improve eve ...Show more
My Dining Hell: Twenty Ways to Have a Lousy Night Out (Penguin Special) by Jay Rayner
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Penguin Shorts/Specials
I have been a restaurant critic for over a decade, written reviews of well over 700 establishments, and if there is one thing I have learnt it is that people like reviews of bad restaurants. No, scratch that. They adore them, feast upon them like starving vultures who have spotted fly-blown carrion out ...Show more
My Last Supper - One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making by Jay Rayner
Category: Food and Drink
You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As a man more obsessed with his lunch than is strictly necessary, the idea of a showpiece last supper is a tantalising prospect. But wouldn't knowledge of your imminent demise ruin your appetite? So, Jay de ...Show more
My Last Supper - One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making by Jay Rayner
Category: Food and Drink
'Hilarious, informative, enlightening, instructive ... It's the funniest book I've read all year' - Chris Evans You're About to Die. What Would Your Final Meal Be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. But why wait for death? Why not eat your 'last meal' now, when you can enjoy it? So, he had a ...Show more
The Apologist by Jay Rayner
Category: Fiction
Marc Basset, restaurant critic for a national newspaper, has made vitriol his trademark. His vivid cruelty makes his many readers laugh – until, one day, a chef roasts himself to death in his bread oven, leaving behind Bassett’s scathing review of his restaurant stuck to the door. When Marc learns of th ...Show more
The Kitchen Cabinet - A Year of Recipes, Flavours, Facts and Stories for Food Lovers by Annie Gray; Jay Rayner (Foreword by)
Category: Cook Books
Fill your year with flavour. The official The Kitchen Cabinet compendium is here at last, with over 100 hours of dinner table talk distilled into this handy almanac, a year in the life of our kitchens to aid you in yours. Open up to find food tips and tricks, stories, recipes, anecdotes and seas ...Show more
The Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner by Jay Rayner
Category: Food and Drink
'Nobody goes to restaurants for nutritional reasons. They go for experience, and what price a really top experience?'What price indeed? Fearlessly, and with huge wit and knowledge and verve, award-winning food writer Jay Rayner has searched the world for the perfect meal. Sparing neither his wallet nor ...Show more
The Man Who Ate the World : In search of the perfect dinner by Jay Rayner
Category: Food and Drink
The Man Who Ate The World" is a journey through the great cities of the world. It's about extraordinary restaurants and the people who visit them. It's about the globalisation of high culture, the market in taste and the money spent on it. And, of course, it's about dinner. From Las Vegas to Moscow, Dub ...Show more
The Oyster House Siege by Jay Rayner
Category: Fiction
It's General Election night, in the year 1983. The great and good have gathered in The Oyster House restaurant in central London to celebrate a Conservative victory that looks set to transform Britain. But when two masked gunmen burst through the door, chased by the police, and take a group of diners ho ...Show more