Last updated 21 August 2026

Terms

This is a cookbook, not advice

Danny Vale is a cook. He is not a nutritionist, a dietitian or a doctor, and nothing on this site or in these books is dietary or medical advice. If you have a medical condition, are pregnant, or are managing your diet under supervision, talk to somebody qualified rather than to a cookbook.

The nutrition figures

Every figure is computed from the recipe’s own ingredient list against USDA FoodData Central and McCance & Widdowson’s Composition of Foods Integrated Dataset, and each book prints the exact database entry used for every ingredient. Nothing is estimated.

They are still approximations, and honestly so. Real ingredients vary between brands, seasons and suppliers. A tin of tomatoes is not a constant. Treat every number as close rather than exact, and if you are counting for a medical reason, weigh and calculate your own.

Food safety

Cooking temperatures, cooling times and storage windows follow UK Food Standards Agency guidance, cited in each book. Kitchens differ and ovens lie. You are responsible for cooking food properly, and where a recipe gives a core temperature it is there because it matters.

The free swap kits

The swap kits are free to read, free to print, and free to send to anybody. Use them at home, in a class, in a professional kitchen, we do not mind. Please do not republish them as your own work or sell them, which is the only thing we would object to.

The books

The books themselves are copyright Authentic-ish and are sold through Amazon. Buying one gives you the usual right to read it, not to redistribute it. Quoting a recipe in a review, a blog post or a conversation is fine and welcome.

Amazon links

Links to amazon.co.uk carry our Associates tag. If you buy after following one, Amazon pays us a commission at no extra cost to you. It does not change what we recommend, and the books tell you when to make the traditional version instead of ours, which would be a strange thing to write if we were optimising for commission.

What we do not promise

That every recipe will work in your kitchen first time. That you will like the lightened version better than the original: several of them you will not, and the books say which. That the site will be up. It is a cookbook site run by one person and it comes with no warranty of any kind.

Getting in touch

hello@authenticish.com. If a recipe didn’t work, we would genuinely rather know than not.

Law

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales.