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Taste By Laura Rowe – Giveaway

December 6, 2015 by GG 46 Comments

Taste Front Cover

Taste Front Cover

Taste is a truly original look at food and cooking.  Apart from the essential fact that everything is told in Pictures, graphic illustrations or Infographics, it isn’t a recipe book.  A collaboration between Laura Rowe and Vicki Turner, this is a book stuffed with foodie facts to make you think, trigger your imagination and create something a little different from your ingredients.

Taste Courgettes

Taste Courgettes

Laura Rowe is an experienced food and drink writer, having written for Word Of Mouth the Guardian’s foodblog, Olive magazine,  and edited the Guild Of Food Writers magazine.  In addition to the theory she is also a home economist working with several celebrity chefs creating the – “Here’s one I made earlier.”  Vicki Turner is a British designer and illustrator with a passion for the natural world. As well as working with Disney/Pixar, Cartoon network, Surfers Against Sewage and the RNLI her projects have been featured in Elle Decoration, The Telegraph and Grand Designs.

“Taste is meant to be a starting point, a beginners guide to being a foodie”

This is where you’ll discover the perfect proportion of filling to bread for a Reuben, an Elvis or the best fish finger sandwich; how many calories the average Brit eats on Christmas day (you’ll be staggered) or how to best savour a courgette, grated, peeled, sliced or spiralized.  Explore the permutations of pesto or make a fabulous hummus with a great pictorial recipe.

Taste Honey

Taste Honey

Have you secretly always wanted to make a sourdough starter and revel in fabulous homemade bread or do you throw away too much stale bread?  Turn it into a salad, pudding or layered casserole.  Bluff your way in honey with a vibrant double page spread, or discover the name for all those curious pasta shapes. Taste has the answers.

Taste Champagne

Taste Champagne

Flip to the back of the book and indulge in cocktails, raise a glass of mother’s ruin whilst taking in the silhouetted botanicals and if you find vodka a little bland, pep it up with a ferris wheel of flavours.

My only bug bear is that there is a table of contents in the front, but no index, so you do need to know whether the item you want is – From The Plot, Off The Farm, Out Of The Water, In The Larder, On The Table, From The Bar or Any Other Business.  But if you’re using it to dip in and out of, this really doesn’t matter.

Taste Sushi

Taste Sushi

Taste is as much a coffee table book to enjoy and amuse your friends, as a permanent part of your cook book shelf.  Fun and lively, beautifully illustrated, it fills you with facts and ‘can do’ in the kitchen.

The book is published by Aurum Press, Price £20, click here for more information.

I’m giving away one copy of this fabulous book to one lucky reader.

You need to have a UK address and fill in the rafflecopter to enter. GOOD LUCK!

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3. Closing Date: 23 December 2015

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Filed Under: Books, Giveaway, Review Tagged With: Book, Coffee table Book, cook book, Foodie, Giveaway, Guide, Illustrations, Infographic, Laura Rowe, Picture Book, recipe book, Taste, Vicki Turner

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Comments

  1. Charlotte Oates says

    December 6, 2015 at 4:57 pm

    I’ve never really thought about my favourite foodie fact before, off the top of my head I’d say that bananas are easier to open from the bottom than the top.

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  2. Kacie Morgan says

    December 6, 2015 at 4:59 pm

    My favourite foodie fact is that if you boil a tin of Carnation condensed cream for around three hours, it turns to smooth, sweet caramel! I discovered this when I first made banoffee pie. I just find it so surreal to be able to create thick caramel from a tin of Carnation cream.

    Reply
  3. laura banks says

    December 6, 2015 at 8:31 pm

    Coconut water can be used (in emergencies) as a substitute for blood plasma

    Reply
  4. Maureen | Orgasmic Chef says

    December 6, 2015 at 11:10 pm

    I love that it’s guide to learning how to be a foodie. We had to practice for years, didn’t we?? 🙂 Great giveaway.

    Reply
  5. Bintu | Recipes From A Pantry says

    December 6, 2015 at 11:15 pm

    This would make such a good Christmas present for a foodie. My favourite food. Depends on the day but right now I am going with plantains.

    Reply
  6. Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella says

    December 6, 2015 at 11:31 pm

    What an interesting cookbook! It would really appeal to visual readers I think 😀

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  7. Choclette says

    December 7, 2015 at 9:19 am

    This definitely looks like a book that’s good to dip in and out of and if I had a coffee table. I’d be very happy for it to sit there. Beautiful illustrations.

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  8. Janie says

    December 7, 2015 at 9:23 am

    Hmmmm, best foodie fact. The only one I can think of is one recently told to me by a butcher that if the fat on a piece of beef is yellow, it’s from a female and isn’t as good a quality piece of meat than if it were from a bull.
    Janie x

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  9. Rose Elise says

    December 7, 2015 at 2:09 pm

    My best foodie fact is that although we have the tale of the The Gingerbread Man here, in most countries, he’s a Pancake Man! =D

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  10. Laura Nice says

    December 7, 2015 at 6:18 pm

    I don’t really know any food facts! So would love these! <3

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  11. Louise says

    December 7, 2015 at 8:29 pm

    That peanuts aren’t nuts! They’re legumes!

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  12. Heidi Roberts says

    December 7, 2015 at 11:30 pm

    Great idea for a book – in info-graphic form!

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  13. Ruth Harwood says

    December 8, 2015 at 9:02 am

    My fave foodie fact is taken from those above, I love that the Gingerbread man is known as the Pancake man in most countries!!

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  14. Sarah S says

    December 8, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    Too much dairy can cause acne! 🙁

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  15. Karen (Back Road Journal) says

    December 8, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    Good luck to all those that can participate…the book sounds interesting.

    Reply
  16. Emma Ellams says

    December 9, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    Ketchup used to be used for healing!

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  17. aaron broad says

    December 10, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    Pringles once had a lawsuit trying to prove that they weren’t really potato chips.

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  18. claire woods says

    December 12, 2015 at 6:04 pm

    peanuts aren’t nuts! They’re legumes!

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  19. Hannah Ingham says

    December 13, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    That almost half of the worlds food is thrown away every year!

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  20. Hotly Spiced says

    December 13, 2015 at 7:37 pm

    What an interesting concept. I would like it even better if it did have an index though. Despite that, it does sound like a very helpful kitchen companion xx

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  21. Susan Clayton says

    December 14, 2015 at 11:10 am

    Hard boiled eggs are really easy to peel if you crack the shell once cooked & leave them in water for 5 mins. The shells will peel away really easily!!

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  22. Helen Adams says

    December 15, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    Great giveaway, would love to win so I could come up with an interesting food fact! x

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  23. don erwood says

    December 17, 2015 at 12:42 am

    Ketchup was sold as medicine in the 1830s

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  24. BV says

    December 20, 2015 at 3:21 am

    Shellac is made from insect excretions & the red food-colouring ‘carmine’ (used in sweets!) is made from boiled cochineal beetles! ICK! I’m vegetarian so have to know this stuff :/

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  25. Kim Styles says

    December 20, 2015 at 10:40 am

    Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family

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  26. Lauren Old says

    December 20, 2015 at 11:09 am

    Carrots were originally purple!

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  27. Janine C says

    December 20, 2015 at 12:26 pm

    One bee will produce as little as 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime! Gosh, I didn’t know that, makes me appreciate honey (and honey bees) a lot more!

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  28. heather brannan says

    December 20, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    Apples belong to the rose family

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  29. Hannah Igoe says

    December 20, 2015 at 10:25 pm

    Prunes are dried plums

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  30. Rachel Butterworth says

    December 20, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    You can use banana skins to clean plant leaves.

    Reply
  31. Karen Howden says

    December 21, 2015 at 9:58 am

    Avacardos are fatening

    Reply
  32. Louise Hutchings says

    December 21, 2015 at 5:56 pm

    Turkey contains the amino acid tryptophan, which forms the basis of brain chemicals that make people tired

    Reply
  33. Sheri Darby says

    December 21, 2015 at 10:20 pm

    That eating celery uses more calories than you take in

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  34. Caroline Blaza says

    December 21, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    Can’t think of any foodie facts I know. This book would certainly help me with that. Merry Christmas x

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  35. Barrie Bangert says

    December 22, 2015 at 7:45 am

    A stunning prize love to win it

    Reply
  36. Lizzy Cooper says

    December 22, 2015 at 9:26 am

    ‘honey can be used to make beer’ mm ;D

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  37. Louise Watts says

    December 22, 2015 at 11:05 am

    That honey is the only food known to man which never goes off!

    Reply
  38. Pam Francis Gregory says

    December 22, 2015 at 12:58 pm

    Bananas are tastier if you eat them “sideways”

    Reply
  39. Spencer Broadley says

    December 22, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    All fruit contains sugar naturally

    Reply
  40. Lisa Pond says

    December 22, 2015 at 6:44 pm

    There are 7500 different varieties of Apple ????????????

    Reply
  41. Miss Tracy Hanson says

    December 22, 2015 at 7:19 pm

    Apples belong to the rose family, as do pears and plums.

    Reply
  42. Ruth Wollerton says

    December 22, 2015 at 7:53 pm

    Grapes are good for you, but full of sugar

    Reply
  43. Beky Austerberry says

    December 22, 2015 at 8:11 pm

    I don’t know any food facts – sorry – this book would be good for that

    Reply
  44. kay anchan says

    December 22, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    The first soup was made of hippopotamus

    Reply
  45. Victoria Prince says

    December 22, 2015 at 11:43 pm

    I think mine is that ripe cranberries will bounce!

    Reply
  46. Natalie Crossan says

    December 22, 2015 at 11:59 pm

    Brazil nuts and peanuts aren’t nuts! They’re legumes!

    Reply

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Hi! I’m GG and I write a Food and Travel Blog based in the UK. I began my blog in 2011 after years spent in the fashion industry, travelling the world. Finally I had time to think and indulge in my passions for writing, travel, food, and photography, in my own time.♥
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