Pork & Sons, by Stéphane Reynaud, the third cookery title published by Phaidon, won the 2006 French Cookbook Award, and the English language edition is out next month (£24.95 in the UK).
It's a homage to the deliciousness of pigs and pork, and there are 150 recipes here, many gleaned from the author's family, who have been pork farmers and butchers for three generations. There's a chapter devoted to black pudding, and another on sausages. Ham gets a look-in, too. Reynaud is a self-taught chef who is a partner at Villa9Trois, in the Parisian suburb of Montreuil.
Angela Hartnett of The Connaught, the most exalted woman chef in Gordon Ramsay's brigade, has her first book out in May. Angela Hartnett's Cucina: Three Generations of Italian Family Cooking(Ebury Press, £25 in the UK) derives its inspiration from Harnett's Italian grandparents. Hartnett, who read Modern History at Cambridge, got her first cooking job at the Sandy Lane hotel in Barbados. On TV's Hell's Kitchen she proved she's a natural in front of the cameras, and later this year she will open a Ramsay restaurant in Florida. Whew! Marie-Claire Digby
