The Essential Guide to London's Best Food Shops

This excellent and essential guide has the added benefit of words from the great one, Antonio Carluccio and with his stamp of approval, this book can't go wrong. If you are a newcomer to London, then this guide is the one for you. It will point you in all manner of directions to shops and markets, ranging from recommended stalls on Shepherd's Bush Market to the upmarket Bluebird Foodstore on King's Road.

It is a book for people who are prepared to travel to the ends of the earth to buy food. You will find all the usual suspects in here from the delicious Baker and Spice in Walton Street to Lidgate's Butchers in Holland Park but hold your breath, as there are a multitude of shops that you may never even have heard of. There are 269 entries altogether, grouped geographically into seven sections.

London is an extraordinary capital and is almost unique in the culinary spheres that it covers. This book has brought all that information together and it is possible to source all the ingredients that you might need for cooking an Afro-Caribbean feast to eel pie and mash. Some may argue that they know all the answers already but this book is in the best selling lists and there certainly is demand for it out there. Even the most seasoned shopper may come across something new here.

Farmers' Markets are also given a mention with details of venues and times. A chapter on mail order and delivery companies provides information for those too lazy or pushed for time to keep on walking.

For the market shy, this book will prove invaluable. How many of us feel totally lost amidst stallholders selling their wares. This book will give you the purpose (and courage) to go and actually find what you are looking for.As the GWG is forever repeating, the consumer is bound in a never ending quest to find the best possible ingredients from independent suppliers, who are as passionate about their produce as their customers are. This book will help you do just that.

In an acquisitive age, when every book that catches your eye, you buy; this one is not a dead donkey and may even be worth its weight in gold.

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Publication Details:
207 pages. £10.99
ISBN 1859742750. Published by New Holland.
2000

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