The Cookie Book: Over 400 Step-by-Step Recipes for Home Baking - Tapa dura

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Catherine Atkinson has always had a passionate interest in food and cookery and as a student this culminated in a BSc (Hons) in Home Economics at Surrey University. After graduating she worked in various hotels and restaurants including the Roux Brothers' famous patisseries. Her catering experience led to work in publishing - creating recipes and styling food for photography - and she became Deputy Cookery Editor on Woman's Weekly and later Me magazine. Catherine currently works as a full-time writer and food consultant, contributing to various food and lifestyle magazines, and producing many outstanding cookbooks. Her published works include: The Coffee Cookbook, Perfect Pastry and Success with Pastry (all Southwater); Chocolate and Sweets to Make (Usborne); and Quick and Easy Microwave Cooking for One, The Start Right Baby and Toddler Meal Plan, and 7 Day Fat Burning Diet Plan (all Foulsham). Joanna Farrow worked as a food writer on women's magazines for several years until her first child was born. Since then, she has worked freelance, contributing articles to various magazines and writing a selection of cookbooks on subjects ranging from fish and shellfish to children's cookery, cakes and chocolate. She has a particular interest in sweet and decorative desserts and her extensive experience in cooking techniques from around the world ensures her recipes are as beautifully presented as they are delicious. Joanna's published works include: Good Fast Family Food (Hamlyn), Sauces (Hamlyn), Chocolate (Hamlyn), Ice Creams and Iced Desserts (Lorenz Books), Great Cookies for Kids (Lorenz Books) and Gluten Free Food (Hamlyn). Valerie Barrett has worked as a food writer and stylist for many years and is an experienced baker. Valerie has written many books on baking and contributes regularly to several national magazines. Valerie Barrett's other published works include: The Chocolate Book (Magna); Chocolate Heaven (World Publications); Gingerbread (Grange Books); and Cookies, Biscuits, Bars and Brownies (Lorenz Books).