Orlando Murrin and Catherine Kurtz are both food writers who have branched out to also write fiction. Orlando’s hugely popular crime series, starring a chef detective, includes Knife Skills for Beginners, and most recently Murder Below Deck (published as May Contain Murder in the US and Canada). Catherine’s debut novel Feast (published on June 4) is the story of a girl with an extraordinary sense of taste. We caught up with the two of them to talk food, fiction, and more…
Read MoreOn March 24th 2024, award-winning author Eleanor Ford was interviewed at the inaugural North London Book Fest by Guild of Food Writers president Orlando Murrin about her latest book, A Whisper of Cardamom. Want to avoid “dusty disappointment’ when storing spices, and to find out Eleanor’s current favorite recipe in the book? Watch the recording for all this and much more…
Read MoreJeanne Strang’s Goose Fat & Garlic is arguably the classic work on the regional cooking of South-West France, and has been reprinted many times since its publication in 1991.
Today ckbk is proud to publish Magrets & Mushrooms, the long-awaited sequel to this work. The new book is the first publication in a new series of “ckbk originals”, published under ckbk’s own imprint and available in print, as a Kindle ebook, and via the ckbk app.
