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Meike Peters: 365 – A Year of Everyday Cooking and Baking  Prestel, 2019 

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When I was asked to review Meike Peters’s new cookery book, 365 – A Year of Everyday Cooking and Baking, I baulked somewhat and almost asked someone else to do it. The world’s best cook, I certainly am not. But then I remembered that, after all, this is exactly the purpose behind a good recipe book, helping people excel in an area where typically, maybe, one isn’t that good. I re-thought my initial scepticism. Hey, after all I’ve been trying to improve my talents in that department for quite a while. And Peters’s book is simply gorgeous, replete with stunning photography and intriguing recipes that make you dream about turning yourself into a Nigella Lawson overnight.

It also comes with a very thorough index at the back, for those who – like me – operate very much on the basis of daily whims when it comes to preparing the day’s mealplan. If you wake up jonesing for a good, old-fashioned carbonara, or maybe a beef stew, all you need to do is look it up in the index and there you go: you’re directed to the relevant recipes. No muss, no...