Coffee is a magical brew to many.  Made from the roasted beans of the coffee plant, coffee, and the various flavours of it, would appear to be inspiring enough for Anthony Capella to write an amorous account of just that, in a way that has had me rethinking my own coffee vices to a point that coffee has taken on a little more meaning than what I ever would have thought.

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With Christmas just around the corner I thought it might be nice to share a few gift suggestions in the way of some fabulous foodie reads. 

I love cookbooks, so every year is pretty much a no-brainer for anyone that knows me, cookbooks, magazines, foodie reads, or anything else to do with food or wine… easy.

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There is something about food in literature that we seem to devour with as much gusto as what we would an actual meal. We digest descriptive passages with passion and ardour and we greedily consume every ingredient, every sugar coated phrase and heavenly scented scene, living, as it would seem, through our stomachs, even if it is only in our minds.

I am not sure what it is that makes us quite so obsessed with food literature. Maybe it is as simple as it being something that we can all identify with.

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