Prawn vol-au-vent, anyone?
70s Dinner Party by Anna Pallai (Square Peg, £9.99) If you remember the Smash aliens or the Ready Brek glow then, like me, you'll almost certainly remember coming downstairs on a 1970s Sunday morning to the smell of stale cigarette smoke in the dining room, waterlogged towers of mushroom vol-au-vents and the whey-faced ruins of a cheesecake. And if you do then this book is all your teatimes come at once. Harking back to a time when foreign food was 'très ex-ot-ique' and curry
