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FiveBooks Interviews
A pair of British artists are planning a five-storey edible mountain to feed 20,000 people as part of a new trend for food-meets-art-installation-meets-fashion. Food historian Ivan Day chooses the best FiveBooks on centuries of British food fashion.
‘Feeding the 5000’ on cast-off vegetables in London’s Trafalgar Square last week was Tristram Stuart's stunt to highlight world food waste. Here the campaigner and freegan chooses FiveBooks that fuel the debate about food production.
The recipe for a bestseller? Very likely a cook book. Here, acclaimed cook and food writer Nigel Slater picks the FiveBooks that always whet his appetite.
At 10.30am GMT today there were 800,000 people playing poker online at PokerStars.com alone, just one of thousands of online poker sites. Poker player Victoria Coren says the game isn't about finding the Marlboro Man within any more. She chooses the best Five Books on poker.
Jojo Tulloh is food editor of The Week, and author of "Freshly Picked: Kitchen Garden Cooking in the City", published this month by Chatto & Windus. "Freshly Picked" brings together stories and recipes inspired by Jojo's eight-year tenure of an allotment in Leyton, East London. She talks to the Browser about her favourite recipe books, and their writers.
Claire Ptak takes cakes seriously. Rumoured to have baked the inaugural dessert for Barack Obama, she started out at Chez Panisse and is now running her own business in London: Violet.