cookbooks

Before you choose your next celebrity cookbook, you may wish to think carefully - because, apparently, it reveals a lot about your personality. Researchers say that our choice of cookery book, and crucially its author, gives plenty of clues about our character, way of life and tastes.

Good news for modern man. “From the wine that passes through Pharaoh's lips to the clusters of dates that Moses eats when he finally crosses the dessert after exile and finds the oasis,” the simple fare of the bible is laid out in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Good Food from the Good Book. Recipes include only those ingredients found in Scripture.

A cookbook filled with Symi Island photographs and foods and teasingly recounting the myths that has made Simi a fashionable tourist spot.

Well, it’s come down to this. Jerry Seinfeld, not content to let the powers that be sort out his wife’s alleged plagiarism problems, took a few rather low shots at the opposing author on national television and has now gotten himself a defamation lawsuit for his troubles. Is all publicity good publicity?

Deep into Moby Dick and the ravages of the ocean, I stopped to ponder a slight omission in Herman Melville's deep soliloquy into The White Whate, his people don't eat.

It may be coincidence that Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious, published by Collins, incorporates ideas from a cookbook twice rejected by that same publisher. It may be coincidence that the initial cover illustration was similar to the cover of the other cookbook. Or it may be that the title is very apt indeed.

From a cook book with no exact quantities to one that features garlic ice cream and smoked cat, here are the ten most unusual cookbooks of all time according to Kate Colquhoun. If you’re into creating in the kitchen, you might want to check these out.