 | The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day by Claudia Roden
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £12.15 This is the best cookbook of all time! I adore this book. Brilliantly researched, every intricate detail brings the recipes to life. Memories of times past and cuisines from every corner of the world
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 | How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Cookery) by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: £12.34 / Used from: £6.94 Not many pictures, but who needs pictures when the writer can convey the flavours and the smells of the meals she creates in words? Recognition that food is not simply nutrition, it is about life.
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 | Jane Clarke's Bodyfoods Cookbook: Recipes for Life by Jane Clarke
Buy used from: £7.71 Simple ideas that finally made me understand that food is not simply for eating. Food provides the building blocks of life and has great relevance in psychological and emotional well being.
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 | Delia's How to Cook Book Three by Delia Smith
Buy new: £12.29 / Used from: £5.55 Why? Because I had to include Delia somewhere!!! I couldn't cook anything with beans or pulses before I read this! Step by step fool proof cookery. I can't even get it wrong! Great hoummus recipe too!
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 | Apricots on the Nile: A Memoir with Recipes by Colette Rossant
Buy used from: £2.31 Included here because of the tone in which it is written, a beautiful story, lovingly told that coincidentally contains some unusual but fantastic recipes.
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 | Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £6.25 I had to include this because I adore the salmon fishcakes in the chapter regarding comfort food! Never use breadcrumbs again! I've seen the future and its much crispier with matzo meal!
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 | Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
Buy new: £2.58 / Used from: £2.39 Now, if you can't tell by now. I happen to like Nigella Lawson's cookery books, so much so that I've now taken to buying books that inspired some of her recipes. Black Cake is delicious!
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 | How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: £19.80 / Used from: £15.00 Well, it's Nigella's and it contains recipes for cheesecake and cheese and potato pies!! What can I say? Fantastic!!
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 | River Cafe Cook Book Green by Rose Gray
Buy new: £19.80 / Used from: £10.50 Well, for some reason this always reminds me of summer even though it contains a chapter relating to every month of the year and the fruits and vegetables associated with that particular month.
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 | More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen by Laurie Colwin
Buy new: £2.92 / Used from: £2.64 Because my mum likes this book and who can argue with that? Mother knows best, as usual.
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