Secrets of A Scholar's Kitchen Recipe Book

What do history's greatest minds have in common? An apparently impressive appetite.

Secrets of a Scholar's Kitchen is a cookbook with a difference, combining tasty recipes with fascinating stories, food history and curious facts inspired by famous thinkers and writers. Across 128 pages, it's part recipe book, part trivia collection and part conversation starter.

From mushroom fettuccine to dishes inspired by some of history's most interesting characters, it's a brilliant way to make cooking feel a little more cerebral. Whether they're actually planning dinner or simply enjoy collecting oddly fascinating facts, there's plenty here to get their brain and appetite going.

A smart and entertaining gift for curious cooks, foodies, history buffs and trivia fans, it's particularly good for the person who has already received quite enough socks, mugs and novelty gadgets. Because apparently, intellectual nourishment is best served with dinner.