Vicky’s much-awaited new book is coming soon!

FLAVOUR: A World of Beautiful Food will launch on 16th April 2009 and is published by Hodder and Stoughton.

We will be releasing more details soon!

In the meantime, please visit the Hodder and Stoughton website http://www.hodder.co.uk/book_details.asp?book=116267

NB: COOKING LIKE MUMMYJI has currently sold out and is awaiting a further print-run. Many apologies for this. Please direct all queries regarding obtaining copies of Vicky’s previous books to the publishers Simon and Schuster:

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COOKING LIKE MUMMYJI

Published October 2003

If you think you know Indian cooking, think again. In over 100 recipes, Cooking Like Mummyji reveals real, authentic, traditional Indian home cooking, as cooked in British Asian homes like hers, and as opposed to the food in Indian restaurants which was invented for the Western palate. As Vicky says, "I have often thought it such a shame that the Western world is not let in on the secret of real Indian / British Asian home cooking, as though it is a sort of long-standing trick, our last remaining jewel. Our home food is much lighter, healthier, more vibrant and varied than Indian restaurant food. We don't use lots of heavy oil, cream or endless lists of unnecessary spices. A handful of spices are key and used often but, like musical notes, can be combined in many different ways to create beautiful melodies". Stunningly illustrated too, this much praised bestseller which sold out before publication, won The Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book at the Guild of Food Writer's Awards and shortlisted to the final three for Best Book at the Glenfiddich Food and Drink Awards, both 2004.

Published September 2005

In January 2005, Vicky decided she wanted to do something more to raise awareness of and funds for Fairtrade, which she is a passionate supporter of. This book is the outcome of that dedication, which she compiled, edited and for which she also wrote the vignettes of information on Fairtrade. 70 delicious celebrity recipes were kindly donated to Vicky for this book that celebrates food and life and aims to give the producers in the developing world a chance by giving 100% of the proceeds to the Fairtrade Foundation and Oxfam's Make Trade Fair campaign. A Fair Feast rapidly became part of the Make Poverty History campaign and features recipes from Nigella Lawson, Jamie Oliver, Delia Smith, Sir Elton John, Dido, Minnie Driver, Keith Floyd, Jane Asher and many, many more. As Screenwriter and Film Director Richard Curtis says, 'A book like this, which raises awareness as well as money, is massively welcome....It's great to feel, in a delicous irony, that recipes are being used as a weapon in the fight against poverty!"

Published February 2006

The eagerly anticipated follow up to Cooking Like Mummyji picks up where the critically acclaimed debut left off, this time exploring authentic Indian food through the unique home cooking styles of other British-Asian communities and set across the sumptously illustrated backdrop of the seasons, incorporating a year of ceremonies and festivals as varied as Holi, Easter, Rakshabandhan, Diwali and Christmas. As Vicky explains " Cooking Like Mummyji was a book of personal recipes, many of which were specific to my Punjabi Sikh upbringing. However, as so many British Asians of other communities enjoyed my first book and kindly shared with me unique and special recipes their families make, I wanted to reflect all this wonderful diversity in this book".