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Lonely Planet's Cuba is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the country has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Enjoy the live music scene in Havana, explore historic Habana Vieja, and trek up Pico Turquino; all with your trusted travel companion.

Inside Lonely Planet's Cuba Travel Guide:

Lonely Planet's Top Picks - a visually inspiring collection of the destination's best experiences and where to have them

Itineraries help you build the ultimate trip based on your personal needs and interests
Local insights give you a richer, more rewarding travel experience - whether it's history, people, music, landscapes, wildlife, politics

Eating and drinking - get the most out of your gastronomic experience as we reveal the regional dishes and drinks you have to try

How to Pick a Cuban Cigar

Toolkit - all of the planning tools for solo travellers, LGBTQIA+ travellers, family travellers and accessible travel

Colour maps and images throughout
Language - essential phrases and language tips

Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots

Covers Havana, Artemisa, Mayabeque, Isla de la Juventud, Valle de Vinales and Pinar del Rio Province, Varadero and Matanzas Province, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Trinidad and Sancti Spiritus, Ciego de Avila, Cameguey, Las Tunas, Holguin, Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo

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Lonely Planet's Pocket Havana is your guide to the city's best experiences and local life - neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Take in the sweep of the Malecon, observe Havana's mosaic of art deco architecture, and explore the rehabilitated Habana Vieja; all with your trusted travel companion. Uncover the best of Havana and make the most of your trip!

Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Havana:

Full-colour maps and travel photography throughout

Highlights and itineraries help you tailor a trip to your personal needs and interests

Insider tips to save time and money and get around like a local, avoiding crowds and trouble spots

Essential info at your fingertips - hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, prices

Honest reviews for all budgets - eating, sightseeing, going out, shopping, hidden gems that most guidebooks miss

Convenient pull-out Havana map (included in print version), plus over 14 colour neighbourhood maps

User-friendly layout with helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time

Covers Habana Vieja, Parque Historico Militar Morro Cabana, Centro Habana, Vedado, Playa and Marianao, Playas del Este and more

The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Pocket Havana, an easy-to-use guide filled with top experiences - neighbourhood by neighbourhood - that literally fits in your pocket. Make the most of a quick trip to Havana with trusted travel advice to get you straight to the heart of the city.

Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Cuba guide for a comprehensive look at all that the country has to offer.

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Sometimes you just want a sugar cookie, and other times you absolutely need a torte. Whether you want to whip up a quick treat or dazzle everyone at your holiday party, these simple recipes and tried-and-true techniques guarantee that you’ll rise to the occasion. This clean and uncluttered format is organized from A to Z, so you can quickly find any recipe when your sweet tooth strikes. Easily make these scrumptious goodies from scratch with minimal equipment. With a wide range of internationally inspired delights, you can enjoy a world of treats in one book.

Inside you’ll find:

• 400 sweet and savory recipes for cakes, pies, cookies, bars, pastries, puddings, custards, candies, drinks, and more
• Gluten-free, keto, and vegan dessert options
• Helpful tips and techniques to ensure every batch is perfection

Ditch the box mixes and ready-made cookies at the supermarket. From decadent desserts to everyday treats, with this cookbook at your side, baking is a piece of cake. Delight your friends and family as they go back for seconds (and thirds) with The Encyclopedia of Desserts.

Find the motivation to live your best life and get into your best shape with social media influencer Zac Perna

Consider this your personal (and hilarious) road map to becoming a lean and happy good influence in your own life. Let's begin.

People worldwide know fitness guru Zac Perna for his informative, motivating, curious and very funny social media content. In this book Zac goes deeper, wider and more intimate than ever before. With lots of information about diet, nutrition, exercise and fitness, Zac also reflects on pivotal lessons he's learned about confidence, resilience and what it takes to create something tangible out of your dreams.

Zac has done the hard work so you don't have to struggle through the same journey. Drawing on his experience establishing a mega social media brand, a hugely successful fitness-coaching business and the Slouch Potato pyjama brand, and on his extensive health knowledge, Zac offers life lessons through intimately personal and at times unbelievable anecdotes that will make you laugh, reflect on your own life, then laugh some more.

If you want a new start, need a bit of encouragement or just want to be inspired, Good Influence is here to help you create healthy habits and become the very best version of yourself.

Taking you through the six Bangladeshi seasons – summer, monsoon, autumn, late autumn, winter and spring – with warming flavours and memories, Dina Begum's Made in Bangladesh teaches modern classics and age-old recipes to home cooks across the world. Puchka (potato & chickpea filled pastry shells with tamarind sauce), Tenga (light & sour fish stew with green tomatoes), Narkel diye murghi (steamed chicken in a spiced coconut paste), Tehari (aromatic beef and rice cooked with mustard oil & chillies) and Dhood puli pitha (coconut-stuffed rice flour dumplings in molasses milk) are just a few of the enticing dishes she shares.

Dina also offers advice on pantry essentials, a range of vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free recipes, and sample menus for feeding a crowd, celebrating how food brings community and festivity.

A unique visual feast with beautiful food and location photography that captures the atmosphere and vibrancy of Bangladeshi food.

Celebrated Australian restaurateur Andrew McConnell (Gimlet, Cutler & Co) and world class butcher Troy Wheeler unite for Meatsmith: Home Cooking For Friends and Family, featuring more than 80 brilliant recipes to inspire long lunches, impressive dinners and sensational shared celebrations.

More than another meat cookbook, this is an elegant guide to classic cooking that will inspire moments to be remembered. Discover menus for special occasions – from a fiery butcher's picnic to a summer lunch in the garden – plus how to grill the perfect rib eye, prepare a spectacular steak tartare and create one great dessert. 

Master signature dishes such as beef wellington or glazed roast duck, delicious charcuterie, barbecue and roasts; and find stellar side pairings among an array of show-stealing salads, vegetable dishes, and sauces.

Andrew and Troy’s belief in quality has seen Meatsmith become one of Australia's best boutique grocers, and it is now the essential cookbook every home cook must have. 

Mums only want the best for their families. But Kirianna Poole didnt find that in a big house in the middle of suburbia. Instead, shes spent five years travelling with her husband and three kids in their vintage Kombi. Life travels slowly in an old campervan, and for Kirianna, that means lots of time to dream up simple, hearty food thats perfect for cooking while camping. Schooled in her Dads restaurants and inspired by a slow-paced life, she knows that good food is the foundation of awesome family adventures. From the small burner in her van or a campfire at camp, Kiriannas simple, delicious and wholesome recipes are perfect for families who want to eat better outdoors. Forget two-minute noodles; The Slow Road Cookbook is filled with the meals she grew up with in a Māori family in New Zealand, flavours shes savoured around the world, and camping classics born in the Aussie bush. With over 100 recipes and chapters covering meat, chicken, seafood, desserts, breakfasts, and even some sneaky cocktails, youll never lack for choice. With a baby strapped to her chest and two barefooted kids exploring around her, this is food for families who crave a slower life, more connection with people, the land, and, just as importantly, themselves.

These 'milkshakes' bring all the vegans to the yard

Forget everything you already knew about vegan food. It's time to discover Plant Milk Power, a collection of 40 heavenly hot, cold and boozy beverages that are packed with flavour.

From everyday favourites like Iced Matcha Latte, Ultimate Chai and Horchata, to crowd-pleasing showstoppers like Rose Falooda, Blue Butterfly Bubble Tea and Carrot Cake, Deborah Kaloper has assembled a range of delicious recipes to suit every palate, intolerance and occasion. Learn how to make your own milk alternatives at home, too, using nuts, seeds, oats, coconut, rice and even root vegetables.

This month to-view calendar features 12 inspirational recipes from across the globe to inspire you in the kitchen and impress your friends and family.

This calendar is beautifully illustrated on every page with unique and exclusive artwork. Each recipe is vegan or vegan adaptable. Each year a new artist is exclusively commissioned to illustrate this delightful kitchen calendar.

When Donna Hay first launched her visually-stunning hardcover book Basics to Brilliance in 2016, she had no idea its pages would become home to some of her (and the country's!) most cherished cult recipes, including that failproof fall-apart slow-cooked beef brisket and the most addictive molten choc-chunk brownies.

In Even More Basics to Brilliance, you'll find many more of those much-loved foundation recipes everyone needs in their cooking repertoire, with simple flavour switch-ups and shortcuts to take you from basics to brilliance in the kitchen, including simple and nourishing base stock for ramen (hello, bowls of umami), the tastiest oven-roasted tomato sauce (say goodbye to stirring at the stove-top!) and the easiest, serve-with-everything yoghurt flatbreads, not to mention the fluffiest foolproof carrot cake and a show-stopping Basque cheesecake.

Each recipe is followed by clever variations and flavour shortcuts to make them even easier to master, while giving home cooks the confidence to elevate their cooking to delicious new heights. And in true Donna style, there are plenty of clever change-ups along the way!

RINTARO, the debut cookbook from one of San Francisco’s most acclaimed restaurants, translates the experience of a Tokyo izakaya to the home kitchen.

Crowd-pleasing foods like curry rice, tonkatsu, and yakitori, eaten most often at lunch counters and in home kitchens, live alongside sashimi, fresh bamboo shoots, and other dishes that are usually considered part of a more elevated Japanese cooking tradition.

Through clear instruction, abundant photography, and utterly delicious recipes, RINTAROdemystifies Japanese food for home cooks with over 70 recipes for rice, simmered dishes, homemade udon, and grilled foods.

RINTARO shows a cross section of Japanese food that isn’t usually shown in American cookbooks. The book showcases exciting but simple food that tastes both like Japan and California – not fusion food – but the food that you’d expect if the Bay Area were a region of Japan. With gorgeous photography and special design and production touches, this is a book that will live in the kitchen as well as on the coffee table.

Dan has drawn over 150 recipes from a lifetime of global travels, spending over five months on the road researching this book. Collaborating with local chefs and restaurants all over the world, he has developed an extraordinary collection of spicy delights, from Malaysian Devil Curry to Sri Lankan Black Pork Curry, Cape Malay Bobotie to Hungarian Goulash. Plus his popular curry house dishes no longer need a base sauce to taste just as delicious, including Chicken Tikka Masala, Beef Madras and Chicken Dhansak.

Packed with beautiful colour photography, and featuring tips and tricks to make the perfect dish every time, Curry Guy One Pot will transport you thousands of miles without having to leave your own kitchen!

These versatile recipes make cooking and entertaining effortless. Mix and match dishes with tapas-style eating and experiment with different flavor profiles. Impress your guests and family with quick and satisfying snacks and sides, or create a feast of multiple dishes. Clean, uncluttered design and an extensive index makes finding recipes easy.  This cookbook includes:

• 350 recipes for sauces, dips, spreads, dumplings, breads, crackers, desserts, and more
• Helpful tips and techniques for entertaining your guests
• Beautiful photography to inspire your feasts

This book is the perfect housewarming or hostess gift, and great for holidays, brunches, and entertaining on special occasions. Whether you want to whip up a quick treat or create a varied and delicious spread, The Encyclopedia of Small Plates is your guarantee to a beautiful table.

This to-die-for cookbook offers one accessible, easy-to-make dish or drink for each of the Duchess of Death's 66 novels. Karen Pierce has diligently selected a most delectable range of intriguing dishes mentioned throughout the collected works of Agatha Christie and recreated the recipes to satiate our culinary curiosity. Recipes include A Perfect Cup of Coffee (The Mysterious Affair at Styles), Rice Pudding (The Murder at the Vicarage), Oysters Rockefeller (Murder on the Orient Express), Lemon Squash Cocktail (Death on the Nile), and "Thomas Roger's" Potatoes (And Then There Were None). Learn how to make an exquisite omelet, how to roast a leg of lamb properly, and how to serve perfectly timed steak frites .The collection offers insightful details about the recipes' histories and their context in Christie's life and times. All dishes appear respective to their eras-so steak fried for 1923 but marinated and grilled for 1964. It's a filling tribute to the grand dame of detective fiction.

RECIPES FOR MURDER has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by Agatha Christie Limited, RLJ Entertainment, or any individual or entity associated with Agatha Christie or her successors.

Learn how to make cheese at home from scratch and create your own delicious sweet and savoury cheese-based recipes with There’s Always Room for Cheese.

There’s Always Room for Cheese is the debut cheese cookbook by chef Colin Wood. Colin has worked in some of the world’s best restaurants as the self-proclaimed ‘casual cheese guy’, and now he wants to teach everyone from amateur cooks to experienced chefs the skills he has learned, including how to make, store and eat cheese.

In this book, Colin will take you back to the basics to create your favourite types of cheese, from the equipment and ingredients you’ll need right through to concocting the perfect cheeseboard to impress your guests. There’s Always Room for Cheese also features a range of deliciously creative cheesy dishes – fromage blanc and strawberry doughnut, anyone? Each chapter is divided into different types of cheese from white mould to semi-hard and there’s even a chapter on whey and what to do with your waste.

This is the perfect opportunity for budding and experienced cheesemakers to have fun with their food at home and to explore the world of cheese with the help of an expert. It’s easy to make cheese at home – all you need to know is how!

Sohn-mat is a master class in how to make this exceptional tofu soup at home, as well recipes for all of the other dishes you need to complete the meal, from banchan, to kimchi, to large-format dishes like bibimbap.

Beyond its loyal customers, Beverly Soon Tofu was highly acclaimed. The restaurant was written about by Jonathan Gold and Ruth Reichl, and profiled by Anthony Bourdain in Parts Unknown. Blending the technical expertise of a chef with the practical know-how of a home cook, Sohn-mat offers what no other Korean book on the market does: a level of sophistication that is still geared toward the home kitchen.

Sohn-mat is for fans of Beverly Soon Tofu and those interested in learning about Korean food and cultivating their own intuitive cooking skills.