For my first post since joining the team at Cookbook Cafe - as Executive Assistant Manager Food & Beverage for InterContnental Park Lane - I figure I would choose one of my favorite subjects…books…Love books…Love this job which includes sourcing, buying, sorting and occasionally selling books…cookbooks…books about wine…about travel…about ingredients…about the restaurant industry

We live in a golden age of food writing where no subject goes untouched from live in the vineyard - Sergio Esposito’s Passion on the Vine, to life on the “line” in the kitchen - Michael Ruhlman’s series The Making of a Chef, The Soul of a Chef and The Elements of Cooking, cooking from all corners of the globe from US chefs and restaurateurs Thomas Keller and Michael Mina to Kylie Kwong and Bill Granger down under, not forgetting our favourite London traiteur Yotam Ottolenghi

Whether for the pleasure of practical cooking, reading recipes we’d love to do if we had space and time and kit, understanding the inspirations of others or learning the ropes of the business, we turn to books, and often books choose us

Happy reading!