Publication date: November 2008; Price: �4.99, pb

�Tasty business. Sudi Pigott knows her stuff. Cut through the froth and you�ll find much to relish.�

Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday

Want to acquire full gastro-credentials as the very best and wittiest, worldly-wise kind of unapologetic Foodie? Then this book is for you. Commencing with �What kind of a Foodie are you?� - a quiz to ascertain exactly where your food priorities lie - How to be a Better Foodie is the fun yet fascinating little compendium that Foodies everywhere have been waiting for.

Self-proclaimed Foodie and experienced food journalist, Sudi Pigott, has climbed proverbial mountains and swum chocolate rivers to bring this �inside info� to our fingers tips. How to be a Better Foodie will teach you the Foodamentals of Gastronomy and the secrets to being truly greedy without appearing so, enabling you to stay one step ahead of your Foodie peers!

Whether you�re an uninitiated Foodie eager to expand your culinary boundaries, or a hard-core gastronome who wants to remain in the epicurian fast lane, there�s something for you. Nonchalant foodie facts for dinner party conversation, farmers� market etiquette, gastronomic pilgrimages and �Prada for the larder� are just a few choice morsels. Sudi even encourages �TV dinners� �� pairing your supper to suit your choice of film for the evening. Will it be tex-mex with The Lone Ranger or sushi and Memoirs of a Geisha?

Sudi�s fun and witty approach makes this fabulous little book required reading for all. Find out why you need at least five different types of salt and pepper in your larder, which cookbooks you cannot be without and how to get better service in restaurants. Sudi also provides her choice of scrumptious seasonal treats and store cupboard essentials: stock up with dried ceps, Ventresca tinned tuna, San Marzano tinned tomatoes and roasted piquillo peppers. For the Foodie during the festive season, why not try making edible gifts and stocking fillers � or at the very least, select only the highest quality shop-bought products.

Sudi also addresses the often complicated and confusing social issues that surround many foods today; fair trade, farmed versus wild salmon, organic and free-range are explained once and for all. No matter what your age, make How to be a Better Foodie your first step towards an irresistible lifetime commitment to food!

About the author:

Sudi Pigott is a highly acclaimed, greedily devoured, opinionated food, restaurant and travel writer, fulsomely dedicated to the plentiful pleasures of good eating with an irrepressible appetite for better foodie knowledge.

Sudi�s name is familiar to readers of The Financial Times Weekend and �How to spend it� magazine, Saturday Telegraph Magazine, Independent on Sunday, Guardian, Delicious, Food & Travel, Easy Living, Square Meal magazine and BA �High Life�, Easy Jet and British Midland�s "yeah baby" in-flight magazines..

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