Potatoes: One Hundred & One Ways of Cooking

As well as introducing Fantastic Fungi, the cookbook spinoff from the award-winning documentary, this week’s newsletter features three more titles newly added to ckbk — one made up of travelers tales, one focused on the food of Northern Spain, and the last a book of quick vegan recipes carrying the endorsement of Jamie Oliver, no less.

Valentine Warner is serious about good food. In our latest Author Profile, Gabriella English interviews the chef, author and TV presenter. His enthusiasm for his subject jumps out of the screen, and fills his books with food you want to eat. Seasonal foods at their best right now include plums and wild mushrooms and we have recipe suggestions for both – as well as getting ready to celebrate National Potato Day.

t’s that time of year to make a racket about strawberries with Wimbledon gracing our screens this week - our Wimbledon collection absolutely smashes it. As well as the ubiquitous berry, we’ll be serving up the likes of dainty Cucumber Sandwiches, Homemade Ginger Beer and jugs of fruity Summer Cup, a gin-based herbal long drink created in the 1820s by James Pimms at his oyster bar in London.