The Times cook since 1987, Frances Bissell has delighted her readers every week with her half page of recipes, cookery hints and shopping guidelines, as well as her knowledgeable discussion of seasonal ingredients and food customs. With six years' material to draw on, the author of this book offers the very best of her recipes and ideas coupled with descriptions of some of her many trips abroad. The book is arranged by category, interspersed with her foreign pieces where she travelled as a guest cook at the best hotels in South and North America, the Far East, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Europe.