Book giveaway: Recipes from My Mother

Bestselling author Rachel Allen shares her culinary inspiration passed down through the generations in a stunning fusion of recipes from her Icelandic mother and her childhood in Ireland. Recipes from My Mother is a delicious recipe book filled with memories.

Rachel’s food is heart-warming, and full of passion and nostalgia. She uses gorgeous ingredients in abundance to create comforting, vibrant meals. Her love of food started when she was very young, sitting in the kitchen with her mother, helping and tasting. Her mother taught her their Scandi family recipes, as well as those she picked up from living in Ireland.

Rachel become more and more passionate about food as she grew up, and she drew inspiration from her childhood memories of helping her mother cook and sitting round with her family enjoying delicious meals and treats. Here she celebrates the food memories of her childhood, alongside those of friends and other members of her family.

Packed with much-loved recipes and stunning photography, this book will take you back to your childhood and make you fall back in love with cooking.

"A natural chef: relaxed, articulate and knowledgeable." Sunday Times

Rachel Allen is the author of 11 bestselling cookbooks, including Coast, Rachel Allen’s Everyday Kitchen and All Things Sweet, and has sold over two million copies to date. Rachel was brought up in Dublin and at the age of 18 left to study at the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School. Today, she not only teaches at the school, she also writes regular features for national publications and presents highly acclaimed television programmes. She is the winner of the 2012 Irish Book Award for Best Non-Fiction for Easy Meals.

Recipes from My Mother is published by HarperCollins and is available to buy online and from all good booksellers.

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