 | The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day by Claudia Roden
Buy new: £16.22 / Used from: £11.50 Asuperb book, not only for the recipes, which are wonderful, but for the historical content too..
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 | Secrets of a Jewish Baker: Authentic Jewish Rye and Other Breads by George Greenstein
Buy used from: £19.00 recommended by nigella Lawson...it's a fantastic book...difficult to get hold of, but do try...
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 | How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: £10.33 / Used from: £8.99 A Treasury of wonderful recipes combined with her seductive writing...a useful book to use for reference and her recommendations are spot on
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 | A New Book of Middle Eastern Food (Cookery Library) by Claudia Roden
Buy new: £12.31 / Used from: £8.05 Another fantastic offering from Claudia Roden...none of her books disappoint me...
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 | Jim Fobel's Old-Fashioned Baking Book: Recipes from an American Childhood by Jim Fobel
Buy new: £8.23 / Used from: £5.11 good authentic American recipes....a good read on a cold winter's evening..
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 | The Great Scandinavian Baking Book by Beatrice Ojakangas
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £10.72 Great for cakes and pastries...my copy is a bit dog-eared now, but the recipes are fab...
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 | The River Cottage Year by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy new: £12.48 / Used from: £6.20 This man is wonderful..he writes beautifully and in a way we all understand...
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 | The River Cottage Cookbook by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy new: £12.96 / Used from: £10.77 This one spends more time in my bathroom than the kitchen...so much information, and he's not afraid to admit to not knowing some things...
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 | French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
Buy new: £6.70 / Used from: £2.70 Any of Elizabeth David's books would feature high in my list...I have a collection of all of her's in their original 'penguin handbook' editions, all very well-thumbed...
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 | The Village Baker by Joe Ortiz
Buy used from: £80.95 Another recommendation by Nigella Lawson, and she wasn't wrong!!
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 | Delia's Complete Cookery Course - Classic Edition: Vol 1-3 in 1v by Delia Smith
Buy new: £8.36 / Used from: £6.75 I was given this for my 21st Birthday, 21 years ago...it still gets used on a weekly basis, and her Christmas cake has yet to be surpassed...
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 | Robin McDouall's Cookery Book for the Greedy by Robin McDouall
This is fantastic if you can get hold of it...my father has a copy and I tracked one down in a charity shop...
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| Venus in the kitchen, or, Love's cookery book by Norman Douglas
Buy used from: £30.00 This has been recently republished so should be easier to get hold of now..there's something about the original though...maybe the smells...my Mother and Father got it as a wedding present...
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 | The Joy of Muffins: The International Muffin Cook Book by Genevieve Farrow
Buy used from: £3.27 the recipes in this book give you good street cred with your childrens friends!!
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 | A Cook on the Wild Side (A Channel Four book) by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy used from: £15.99 wonderful, if, like me, you like to work at gathering your ingredients...
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 | The Ballymaloe Cookbook by Myrtle Allen
Buy new: £7.66 / Used from: £1.85 This is THE definitive irish cook book...I've had my copy for almost 20 years and haven't found one to beat it...don't expect gloss...this is good down-to-earth Irishness.....
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