In Print
When I first fell in love with cooking, I fell in love with cookbooks, and soon decided I wanted to write them myself. I self-published my first cookbook, a modest paperback collection of my early recipes called "Vegetarian Foodscape", with the support of Christiane Kubrick, wife of the film director, in whose kitchen I first learned to cook. This accomplishment landed me my first international publishing deal with "New Vegetarian" which went on to sell over 100,000 copies.
I have published a total of seven books worldwide, translated into nine different languages. The whole process gives me huge satisfaction: research, creating and perfecting the recipes, writing, and food styling for photography.
I love the immortality of books, but I am a food journalist as well. I currently write a column for The Times (London) online called "Urban Farmer", and a column for BBC Good Food Magazine called "Grow to Eat". I've also contributed to numerous other publications. I am a member of The Guild of Food Writers and The Society of Authors. My agent is Martine Carter at Sauce Communications.
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New Urban Farmer
By Celia Brooks Brown
Photographed by Jill Mead
Published by Quadrille, March 2010
ISBN 978 184400 817 9Buy online from Amazon.co.uk
or your local bookshop.
"I felt really inspired by this book."
Liz Dobbs, Gardens Monthly
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World Vegetarian Classics
By Celia Brooks Brown
Photographed by Gus Filgate
Published by Pavilion, Oct. 2005
ISBN 1 86205 677 3Buy online from Amazon.co.uk
"You'll never have a veggie meal crisis ever again"
olive magazine
"Making vegetarian food rock 'n' roll is no mean feat, but Celia is clearly the woman to do it"
Bath Chronicle
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Low Carb Vegetarian
By Celia Brooks Brown
Photographed by Tara Fisher
Nutritional analysis by Fiona Hunter
Published by Pavilion, Oct. 2004
ISBN 1 86205 676 5Buy online from Amazon.co.uk
or your local bookshop.
"Packed with delicious ideas - a blessing"
Anthony Worral Thompson, Express on Saturday
"These brilliant and simple recipes make dieting a treat"
Sri Owen, renowned food writer
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Entertaining Vegetarians
By Celia Brooks Brown
Paperback title: VEGETARIAN PARTY FOOD
US title: PARTY FOOD FOR VEGETARIANS
Photographed by Jan Baldwin
published by Pavilion, Sept. 2003
ISBN 1 86205 534 3Buy online from Amazon.co.uk
or your local bookshop.
"So glamourous you wouldn't notice the absence of meat"
The Daily Telegraph
"The art of showing both hard-core vegetarians and the merely veggie-curious in your life a good time... A flexible and relaxed approach to entertaining."
olive magazine
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New Kitchen Garden
By Adam Caplin and Celia Brooks Brown
Photographed by William Shaw
published by Ryland, Peters and Small, 2002
ISBN 1 84172 226 XBuy online from Amazon.co.uk
or your local bookshop.
"Makes fruit and vegetable growing exciting, fashionable, and above all, fun... The aim is not self-sufficiency or prize-winning crops, but the satisfaction of growing, harvesting and tasting your own organic produce."
Royal Horticultural Society - The Garden
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New Vegetarian
By Celia Brooks Brown
Photographed by Philip Webb
published by Ryland, Peters and Small, 2001
ISBN 1 84172 117 4Buy online from Amazon.co.uk
or your local bookshop.
"A gem"
BBC Good Food
"A lovely book by an inspiring cook"
Rose Elliot, renowned food writer
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Vegetarian Foodscape
By Celia Brooks Brown
Cover by Jessica Brown
published by Pen and Ink, 1998
ISBN 0 9534022 0 7Available directly from author
This was my first book, which I self-published. You can buy a limited edition signed copy directly from me.