The Spam Cookbook - Tapa dura

A practical and lighthearted collection of 20 new recipes that make use of the world's most famous brand of tinned meat. 'The Spam Cookbook' includes a concise history of Spam, from its introduction in 1937, through its role as morale booster in World War II, to its immortalisation in song by Monty Python's Flying Circus. It contains a wealth of rare Spam memorabilia from the archives of the Hormal Food Corporation.

Marguerite Patten is one of Britain's most famous cookery writers, with over 160 cookery books, many of them bestsellers, to her credit. In the Queen's Birthday Honours, June 1991, she was awarded the OBE for her services to the art of cookery and in 1995 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Guild of Food Writers. She was recently the subject of BBC1's popular tribute programme, 'This is Your Life'. Recent titles among her many books for Hamlyn are 'Marguerite Patten's Post-war Kitchen', 'We'll Eat Again', and 'The Victory Cookbook'.