 | Larousse Gastronomique: The World's Greatest Cookery Encyclopedia by Prosper Montagne
Buy used from: £60.00 A mighty volume of useful learning. I have an old 60s edition that belonged to my parents, but it's still the definitive reference
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 | The Silver Spoon
Buy new: £15.69 / Used from: £12.50 Every Italian recipe you will ever need and a lot you won't
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 | Anthony Bourdain's "Les Halles" Cookbook: Classic Bistro Cooking by Anthony Bourdain
Buy new: £10.36 / Used from: £4.44 Quick and dirty French bistro cooking. Delicious
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 | Bouchon by Thomas Keller
Buy new: £23.62 / Used from: £17.06 Classic French bistro cooking. You don't need the French Laundry Cookbook - you and I can't cook like that. But we can cook like this
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 | French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David
Buy new: £9.22 / Used from: £7.64 A mine of wonderful hints and some fab recipes. She knew what she was on about
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 | The Wiseguy Cookbook: My Favorite Recipes from My Life as a Goodfella to Cooking on the Run by Henry Hill
Buy new: £8.21 / Used from: £9.36 Italian-American cooking at its most criminal. Seriously tasty, especially his meatballs
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 | Two Cooks and a Suitcase: Recipes from Lupe Pintos Deli by Douglas Bell
Buy used from: £5.59 Sinfully good Tex-Mex recipes from a Scottish couple who toured the States looking for the good stuff
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 | The Book of Jewish Food: An Odyssey from Samarkand and Vilna to the Present Day by Claudia Roden
Buy new: £16.22 / Used from: £8.50 Wonderful recipes but an even better encyclopedia
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 | Jacques Pepin's La Technique Complet by Pepin
Buy new: £13.42 / Used from: £17.78 The stuff you need to know to be a flash cook
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 | The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Cuisine by Judith Choate
Buy new: £40.00 / Used from: £24.12 The stuff you need to know to cook decently and reliably, all the time
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 | Cooking in Ten Minutes: The Adaptation to the Rhythm of Our Time by Edouard de Pomiane
The stuff you need to know to eat like a king or queen quickly and on no money, provided there's an OK deli nearby
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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: £0.01 A sensible food writer, enthusiastic and geekishly keen to try out recipes for himself
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 | Le Repertoire De La Cuisine by Louis Saulnier
Buy new: £14.00 / Used from: £9.86 1000s of classic recipes condensed into one line. Provided you can cook anyway, there's a lifetime of inspiration here
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| The Cookery Year by Reader's Digest
Buy used from: £19.97 Long out of print but a wonderful encyclopedia of British food, and a very handy guide to techniques. Some of the recipes are fearsomely 70s but a lovely book
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 | White Trash Cooking (Jargon) by Ernest Matthew Mickler
Buy new: £9.71 / Used from: £5.89 No home should be without it. Stodgy, fatty, indigestible weirdness from the Deep South. You won't believe the things some people will do with mayonnaise.
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