 | Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes by Tessa Kiros
Buy new: £15.00 / Used from: £8.99 Lovely to look at, nicely written but also one of those cookbooks where you want to cook almost everything in it! Apples for Jam is good too, but more basic.
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 | Favourite Recipe From Books for Cooks 1,2 & 3 by Victoria Blashford-Snell
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £6.81 Compilations of favourite recipes from the Books for Cooks test kitchen/cafe at the back of their London bookshop with their favourite recipes from each year. Faves: Best of 1,2, 3 and # 7. (try ebay)
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 | Appetite: So What Do You Want to Eat Today? by Nigel Slater
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £10.10 Full of the kind of everyday food you want to cook everyday rather than restaurant or posh dinner party food, plus good advice on equipment, seasons. Each recipe is a 'template' with lots of ideas.
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 | Don't Sweat the Aubergine: What works in the kitchen and why by Nicholas Clee
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £3.05 Essential! Not really a cookbook but a great read, packed with tips, techniques and advice. I always use this when I am unsure about something and I usually find the answer!
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 | Arabesque: A Taste of Morocco, Turkey and Lebanon by Claudia Roden
Buy new: £19.47 I love this kind of food - full of flavour. Check out the Moro cookbook and Casa Moro too (by Sam Clark) and anything else by Claudia Roden.
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 | The River Cottage Meat Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £16.20 Hugh's huge book with some good recipes but also lots of interesting and thought provoking reading.
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 | New Food for Thought by Jane Noraika
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.69 From the wonderful Covent Garden vegetarian restaurant/cafe. To balance the Meat book above, this is my favourite vegetarian cookbook. Great soups!
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 | Roast Figs, Sugar Snow: Food to Warm the Soul by Diana Henry
Buy used from: £56.23 Lots of tasty warming winter food from Northern Europe.
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 | Something for the Weekend: With Eight Around the Table by Ruth Watson
Buy used from: £1.54 Amusing, well written and good recipes and tips on cooking for a crowd without getting too stressed out!
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 | Good Tempered Food: Recipes to love, leave, and linger over: Recipes to Love, Leave and Linger Over by Tamasin Day-Lewis
Buy used from: £23.98 Lots of robust flavours in this one, some nice ideas. Check out her 'Kitchen Bible' too.
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 | Exploring Taste & Flavour: The Art of Combining Hot, Sour, Salty and Sweet in 150 Recipes by Tom Kime
Amazing combinations of flavours, great book especially for the more adventurous cook. Try the Vietnamese pork with aubergines.
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 | Soup Kitchen by Thomasina Miers
Buy used from: £11.90 'Bubbling under' my top 10 - this is a great book of soup recipes contributed by well known chefs and divided into seasons. + it's for charidee!
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 | The Divertimenti Cookbook by Camilla Schneideman
Buy used from: £13.63 Excellent - one of those rare cookbooks where you want to make almost everything in it. Have tried several recipes and all have been great.
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 | Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook by Sarah Raven
Buy new: £18.76 / Used from: £15.49 Wonderful book - whether or not you grow your own. Arranged by seasons.
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 | Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes: The Best of Anna Del Conte by Anna Del Conte
Buy new: £6.92 / Used from: £4.99 If you love Italian food then you will love this book! Check out her Food of Northern Italy book too and Marcella Hazan as well.
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