 | Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Cookery Encyclopedia (Larousse) by Prosper Montagne
Buy new: £39.00 / Used from: £22.48 Let's start here - sure it has a French, westernised slant, but still the best for short, succint explanations of most cooking recipes and techniques and where it all originated.
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 | Paris in a Basket (Cookery/Food and Drink) by Nicolle Meyer
Buy used from: £11.99 Showcases the soul, the heart and most of all the stomach of the city. All great cities of the world should have a guide like this.
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 | Culinaria: European Specialities
Buy new: £14.67 / Used from: £18.21 All Culinaria Editions are the bees-knees of all Food / Travel guides. Well reserached and authentic. 10 out of 10! Best of the Best.
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 | Traditional Portuguese Cooking by Maria de Lourdes Modesto
The real deal - unadultared, authentic Regional Portuguese Cuisine
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 | Ingredients by Loukie Werle
Buy used from: £32.73 Great Place to start. A visual feast of what we eat. Get it in different languages and presto , you have a literal foodie translation
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 | Love Food Love Rome by Diane Seed
Buy new: £12.34 / Used from: £5.84 Gourmets often categorise Roman food as peasanty and unimaginative. This guides recommends some eating places which could well change their misconceptions. The eternal cities secret haunts. Magnifico!
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 | Rick Stein's Food Heroes by Rick Stein
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £5.18 British food get a real bad wrap. But with good, honest products, the flavour of the ingredients really showcases the simplicity. This is just an example: would also consider Nigel Slater and Hugh FW.
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 | Culinaria USA: The USA - A Culinary Discovery (Culinaria) by G. Chassman
Buy used from: £78.06 Even manages to lift most fast food, which the USA is so infamous for, into a heavenly, albeit guilty, pleasure. It ain't all about the fussy French!
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 | Falling Cloudberries: A World of Family Recipes: Bk.2 by Tessa Kiros
Buy new: £16.25 / Used from: £12.50 Her books take you on a culinary journey through Italy, through Tuscany, South Africa, Cyprus & Greece, etc, etc. Amazingly it just all gels together.
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| The Pasta Machine Cook Book by Gabriella Mari
Many simple pasta dishes, yet many others taken to another level.
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 | Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible by Madhur Jaffrey
Buy new: £16.25 / Used from: £12.99 A Cultural insight into another way of cooking. Fascinating and exotic for all foreign to this part of the world.
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 | Real Italian Food: The Regional Recipes of Italy's Cucina Tipica by Paul Lay
Buy new: £8.00 / Used from: £3.34 Some off the beaten track food producers, real unsung heroes which abound all over Italy. Who needs Jamie!
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 | Culinaria Spain: A Literary,Culinary,and Photographic Journey for Gourmets
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £12.12 |
 | A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain
Buy new: £1.50 / Used from: £0.01 Exotic enough for you? The ultimate guide on why we should travel and savour the local specialities. A genuine adventure of the taste buds and the senses.
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 | Culinaria Germany by Konemann
Buy used from: £20.75 |
 | Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa by Matthew Fort
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.44 See, feel and taste how someone else beat Jamie withy his campervan,... oops, sorry a Vespa with their food travels in Italy.
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 | Culinaria France: A Literary,Culinary,and Photographic Journey for Gourmets
Buy new: £14.46 / Used from: £12.93 |
 | Medina Kitchen: Home Cooking from North Africa by Fiona Dunlop
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £10.00 North Africa. oh how it is so close to all that is familiar to the Medittaranean palate, and yet - so original, so different, Makes me want to just pack and fly off to Tunis, Cairo or Marrakesh
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 | Eating England: Why We Eat What We Eat with Over 500 Special Places to Eat and Shop by Hattie Ellis
Buy used from: £0.01 Shhhsh! Don't tell the snooty foreigners and especially the French. The Brits just do not know their food and how to cook! it
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 | Culinaria Greece: Greek Specialties by Marianthi Milona
Buy new: £13.00 / Used from: £17.45 |
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