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Cookery shelves over autumn will be jam-packed with celebrity chefs, including Jamie, Nigella and the Hairy Bikers, but no Delia, as cookery publishing follows the more spread out scheduling replacing “Super Thursday”.
Nigella Lawson’s Nigella’s Kitchen: Recipes for the Heart of the Home will be released by Chatto on 2nd September as a £25 hardback, accompanied by a 13-part BBC2 series. Jamie Oliver’s 20 Minute Meals is lined up by Michael Joseph for a month later on 7th October as a TV tie-in £26 hardback. Delia Smith, who had Delia’s Happy Christmas last year, does not have a title scheduled for this autumn.
Ebury imprint Virgin also has The People’s Cookbook by Arthur Potts Dawson, the chef behind eco-friendly restaurant Acorn House. Lined up for 30th September, the title accompanies four-part Channel 4 series “The People’s Supermarket” about making the most of otherwise wasted food.
Other celeb chefs returning without TV series include “This Morning” chef Gino D’Acampo following up his The I Diet with Gino’s Pasta from Kyle Cathie at “the end of October” according to the publisher.
Also, Willie Harcourt-Cooze, star of C4 series “Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory” has The Chocolate Bible (Hodder & Stoughton) out on 30th September and Levi Roots, presenter of BBC2’s “Caribbean Food Made Easy”, has Food for Friends from Mitchell Beazley out on 2nd August.
The Hairy Bikers’ 12 Days of Christmas is lined up for 7th October from Weidenfeld, while on 2nd September comes Nigel Slater’s Tender: Volume 2 (Fourth Estate). A second series of “Simple Suppers” has been recommissioned for BBC2, with a BBC1 dramatisation of his autobiography Toast scheduled just before Christmas.
And model-turned-cupcake queen Lorraine Pascale has title The Urban Chef due from HarperCollins on 2nd September, with a six-part BBC2 series due for late autumn 2010/January 2011.