Chris Caldicott

Summary: This is an alphabet book that contains a nutritious food that is eaten around the world for each letter of the alphabet. The author includes snippets of information for each food, telling the reader about how the food is eaten in different countries, introducing new ways of eating and seeing the food.

This book goes through the English alphabet one letter at a time. Each letter is paired with a food that starts with that letter. There is also a paragraph of the food and where it is found, how it is harvested, ect. There is an accompanying picture of the place where the food is from featuring people from where the food is from with the food. Alphabet book and informational because it goes through the alphabet but also has information on the different foods and the countries they are found in.

A vegetarian cookery book from Chris and Carolyn Caldicott, owners of the World Food Cafe in Covent Garden.
The vegetarian recipes are inspired their travels in Asia and South and Central America. The recipes are practical and good. The photography is beautiful; scenes as well as food. As well as recipes the text includes information about the places the recipes come from.