 | The Cook's Companion: The Complete Book of Ingredients and Recipes for the Australian Kitchen by Stephanie Alexander
Buy used from: £72.87 Great & easy to use book. Recipes work well. Australian flavour.
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 | McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture by Harold McGee
Buy new: £17.97 / Used from: £16.47 Fantastic read - helps understand the raw material & chemical processes involved. Excellent!
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 | Pacific Northwest the Beautiful Cookbook: Authentic Recipes from the Pacific Northwest by Kathy Casey
Buy used from: £7.05 Beautiful! Together with California, Texas, Southwest & the South. Inspirational!
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 | The New Texas Cuisine by Stephan Pyles
Buy used from: £10.76 Interesting - worthwhile for the combinatinos. Unfortunately Texan ingredients are hard to find in Europe..
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 | The Silver Spoon
Buy new: £15.69 / Used from: £11.48 The mainstay of Italian cuisine (together with the now impossible-to-find Carnacina)! The place for classic Italian recipes!
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| The Oxford Companion to Food (Oxford Companions) by Alan Davidson
Buy new: £26.00 / Used from: £11.00 A classic - the place to find out about ingredients, etc. Always well-thumbed!
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 | The New Oxford Book of Food Plants by John Vaughan
Buy new: £12.50 / Used from: £10.90 Still using the 1970 edition! Useful - together with the van Wyk (ISBN 0881927430)
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 | The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy new: £18.91 / Used from: £15.96 Respectful of the animal - a reference textbook. You'll start looking for dry-aged beef, etc.
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| Professional Cookery: The Process Approach by Daniel R. Stevenson
Buy used from: £0.01 My textbook at Uni - every recipe worked! Standard recipes for a British catering establishment!
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 | Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Cookery Encyclopedia by Prosper Montagne
Buy used from: £60.00 A must for classic French recipes! A reference work - with interesting ideas & techniques.
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 | Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji
Buy used from: £36.61 Another reference work! Culturally important - helps in the long process of understanding Japanese ingredients and techniques.
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 | Oishinbo a la Carte: Japanese Cuisine by Kariya Tetsu
Buy new: £6.04 / Used from: £5.92 Pleasant surprise - a manga McGee! There are about 9 volumes being published in UK in 2009-2010.
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| The Robert Carrier cookbook by Robert Carrier
Buy used from: £17.45 A classic from a classic chef - the first celebrity chef in Britain!
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 | Jamie's Italy by Jamie Oliver
Buy new: £14.18 / Used from: £8.50 Italian food treated with sensitivity & respect by Mr Oliver! Contains good trusty receipes.
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 | The Man Who Ate Everything: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Food, But Were Afraid to Ask by Jeffrey Steingarten
Buy used from: £10.24 Great stories - no recipes but a good intro to ingredients and foodstuffs. Followed by "It Must've Been Something I Ate" and Chef Blumenthal's Search for Perfection books.
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 | Week In Week Out by Simon Hopkinson
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £7.50 Great articles on British seasonal dishes. Also refer to the author's Roast Chicken books.
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 | Action Cook Book by Len Deighton
Buy new: £6.46 / Used from: £0.94 A surprise - great fun! Historical value: Swinging Sixties in London & worthy of Austin Powers!
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 | Nose to Tail Eating: A Kind of British Cooking by Fergus Henderson
Buy new: £11.04 / Used from: £6.92 An important book... and an important restaurant!
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 | Gardener Cook by Christopher Lloyd
Buy new: £10.52 / Used from: £5.21 A gem from one of world's (late) great gardeners!
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 | Rick Stein's Food Heroes by Rick Stein
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £2.91 Good modern British recipes - with a view to sustainability and quality of produce.
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