Free British Food eBook

I love food. I love cooking food (even though I have no particular talent for it) and, of course, I love eating food - perhaps a little too much. As the proprietor of Blighty's Tuck Store I am surrounded by food all day, every day. I spend most of my waking hours thinking about food and I spend thousands of dollars every week buying food (for Blighty's Tuck Store of course).

At home I have a book collection that is entirely centred on food. Recipe books mostly. As I flick through their pages I rarely find a recipe that grabs my attention and draws me towards the kitchen. The problem is, most recipe books describe fancy dishes for entertaining or special occasions. I grew up on good, basic British grub. The kind of dishes that my mum used to make. The kind of dishes that would fill our bellies and give us the energy to go off on our bikes or play soccer for hours on end. The kind of dishes that didn't need a shopping trip to the deli on a quest for unobtainable ingredients.

I have a son in Vancouver who is an haute cuisine chef. He can make dishes that will make your mouth wish that every day was Christmas. Oliver's recipes will twist your tastebuds six ways from Sunday and leave you begging for more. Actually he has just been persuaded by his food fans to start his own blog. If you love food too you should read his blog: eat-think.blogspot.com.

But me, I put aside all those fancy recipe books and searched in vain for a source for the good old fashioned stuff my mum used to make. It wasn't easy, but after a lot of looking I found enough material to put together in the form of a little eBook. I have made the eBook available for free download on Blighty's website at www.blightys.com. Click on the link at the top of the page for "Free Food Book" and you will find a form that will give you access to the book.

If you have recipes in your collection for the kind of good, simple, basic food that was popular in British mum's kitchens in the 1940s to 1960s let me know. Maybe we'll be able to include them in the next revision of the eBook.