Fortnum & Mason

Tom Parker Bowles is a food writer and broadcaster, and author of six books including E is for Eating: An Alphabet of Greed, the award-winning Full English: A Journey Through the British and Their Food, Let's Eat: Recipes From My Kitchen Notebook and Fortnum & Mason: The Cook Book.

He is also Restaurant Critic for The Mail on Sunday, and Food Editor of Esquire. He lives in London.

'There are loads of Christmas classics out there already, but I'm buying this for its sheer gorgeousness as much as for the recipes. I only have to look at the cover and I'm breaking in to "signin' and swingin' and gettin' merry like Christmas"' Diana Henry, Sunday Telegraph

'Full of celebratory recipes, with a few healthy ones for January' Sunday Times

'What could be more joyous than a new book from Fortnum & Mason and Tom Parker Bowles? That it's festive is an added bonus - no one does Christmas like Fortnum's, nor like Tom, as it turns out ... It's packed with everything you need to know for winter feasting' Delicious

Praise for Fortnum & Mason: The Cook Book:

'This book, with its lovely colour illustrations taken from old Fortnum's direct marketing booklets, is undiluted nostalgic celebration' Rose Prince

'Some of my earliest food memories are of Fortnum & Mason ... So, understandably, the Fortnum's Cook Book has a strong nostalgic appeal for me, but a cookery book cannot survive on sentimentality alone, and I have insulted the book's elegance already, besmirching it with hideously garish post-it notes' Nigella Lawson

'A beautiful new cookbook' Clerkenwell Boy

'It's a beauty!' Gizzi Erskine