 | Real Cooking by Nigel Slater
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £6.70 A very good starting point. Simple, no-nonsense cooking.
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 | Appetite: So What Do You Want to Eat Today? by Nigel Slater
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £5.56 This will teach you to improvise, a very useful skill when cooking.
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 | The River Cottage Family Cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy new: £16.25 / Used from: £12.97 This is supposed to teach cookery to children, but it is a good introduction for adults, too. The recipes are simple but v. good.
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 | Cupboard Love: How to Get the Most Out of Your Kitchen by Tom Norrington-Davies
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £3.00 This one teaches how to stock your kitchen cupboards so you always have the ingredients to whip out something tasty in a short time. Useful, and one of the most pleasant writers.
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 | Just Like Mother Used to Make by Tom Norrington-Davies
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £6.49 Confort eating, and very yummy! Your family will always thank you for cooking one of these classic recipes, but they are also simple and well-explained. This is maybe my all-time favourite cookbook.
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 | Tamasin's Kitchen Bible: The One And Only Book For Every Cook: The One and Only Book for Every Cook by Tamasin Day-Lewis
Buy used from: £10.99 This one is maybe optional, but again gives useful information about food and cooking, and has a good chapter on cooking for Christmas.
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 | Don't Sweat the Aubergine: What works in the kitchen and why by Nicholas Clee
Buy used from: £3.31 "What works in the kitchen and why". Not a recipe book, even if it contains some recipes, more about information and tips on how to execute recipes and improve your cooking. One of my favourites.
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 | Ainsley Harriott's Friends and Family Cookbook: Over 200 Reasons to Eat In by Ainsley Harriott
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £6.13 Ainsley is another no-nonsense cookery writer whose books I enjoy..I think he deserves more attention.
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 | Complete Cookery Course: Classic Edition by Delia Smith
Buy new: £12.34 / Used from: £8.03 I guess this list would not be complete without Delia, but I must confess her recipes do not inspire me much.. it's better to buy this in the 3 separate white books, I think it's a newer edition
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 | Pastry Cook: The Complete Guide to the Art of Successful Pastry Making with Step-by-step Techniques and Over 135 Sweet and Savoury Recipes by Catherine Atkinson
Buy used from: £44.52 I picked this up in a charity shop, and I love it! V., v. useful.
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 | Anthony Bourdain's "Les Halles" Cookbook: Classic Bistro Cooking by Anthony Bourdain
Buy new: £10.39 / Used from: £7.30 If you wanted to try some French cooking, this one is approachable and clearly explained.
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 | A Taste of the Far East by Madhur Jaffrey
Buy new: £10.00 / Used from: £0.01 This is a decent introduction to asian cooking, with explanations on ingredients and techniques, and regional differences.
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 | Italian Food by Elizabeth David
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £1.95 Elizaberth David's books, in the penguin paperback editions, are so cheap that every cook should have at least one. They may not be very simple but they are a great intro to mediterranean cooking.
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 | A Book of Mediterranean Food (Penguin Cookery Library) by Elizabeth David
Buy new: £6.74 / Used from: £0.47 This one should be useful too, and very cheap (£0.01).
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 | Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes by Tessa Kiros
Buy new: £12.49 / Used from: £8.00 Tessa Kiros' books are beautiful, and this one has a v. good collection of Greek recipes . Also other interesting international recipes - Danish, South-African, and others...Please ignore the "BK 2"
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