In 2003 Grub Street published Julie Duff s first book, Cakes Regional & Traditional. The book was short listed for the prestigious Glenfiddich Award and was highly praised in the press especially by Nigel Slater and Tom Parker Bowles and has established itself as the classic work on British cakes. Julie now follows that comprehensive work with an equally thorough and entertaining bible which has taken four years to research and write, by gathering together all the great cake recipes from around the world. You will find no other work which collects together cake recipes from Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East, the USA, the Caribbean, the Far East, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, there are even recipes from Iceland, South Africa, Patagonia and the Gulf States. You ll be hard pushed to find a country she hasn t included. There are large cakes, small cakes, plain cakes, fancy cakes, light cakes, rich cakes, fruit cakes, spicy cakes, apple, orange and lemon cakes, coffee and chocolate cakes, iced cakes, layer cakes, sponge and Madeira cakes, and yeasted cakes. She has included recipes for brownies, cupcakes, muffins, macaroons, cheesecakes, parkins, pound cakes, streusels, gingerbreads and shortbreads. In fact you won t need another cake cookbook when you have this on your kitchen shelf. Julie Duff runs her business, Church Farmhouse Cakes from her home in Croxton Kerriel, Lincolnshire and supplies some of the country s foremost shops with her highly praised confections. Since her first book was published she has been much in demand on TV, radio and in the press for her cake making tips and her recipes. Last year she presented a series of regional cake recipes on Woman s Hour for five weeks.