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1001 Restaurants You Must Experience Before You Die by Jenny Linford (General Editor); Jay Rayner (Foreword by)
Category: Food & Wine
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: Food & Wine
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 & Wine
'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: Food & Wine | 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 & Wine
'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 Man Who Ate the World: In Search of the Perfect Dinner by Jay Rayner
Category: Food & Wine
'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 Ten (Food) Commandments by Jay Rayner
Category: Food & Wine
Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by, celebrating what and how we eat The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them, but they don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century much in the way of guidance when it comes to our relationship with our food. And Lord k ...Show more
Wasted Calories and Ruined Nights - A Journey Deeper into Dining Hell by Jay Rayner
Category: Gift
Includes Le Cinq, Beast and Farm Girl Café, and a new introduction by the author. Jay Rayner isn't just a trifle irritated. He is eye-gougingly, bone-crunchingly, teeth-grindingly angry. And admit it, that's why you picked up this book, isn't it? Because you aren't really interested in glorious prose ...Show more
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