 | The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters
Buy new: £16.22 / Used from: £14.96 Simple recipes for classic dishes - I love this cookbook
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 | The Prawn Cocktail Years by Lindsey Bareham
Buy new: £15.83 / Used from: £14.63 Re-discover the delights of 1970s classics ... I'm almost embarassed to admit how much I use this book ....
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 | Tom Aikens Cooking by Tom Aikens
Buy new: £16.22 / Used from: £14.63 For Classic French Bistro food and haute cuisine, Tom Aikens is top of my list
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 | World Vegetarian Classics: Over 220 Authentic International Recipes for the Modern Kitchen by Celia Brooks Brown
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £8.58 All the dishes are easy to make, and I challenge anyone to claim vegetarian food is boring after using this book
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 | Around the World in Eighty Plates by R.U. Singh
Buy new: £35.00 / Used from: £28.05 Vegetarian dishes from great chefs around the world
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 | Sauces: Savoury and Sweet by Michel Roux
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £8.53 Sauces are the key to cuisine ... master them, and you're well on your way
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 | The Food of China: A Journey for Food Lovers by Murdoch Books
Buy new: £10.19 / Used from: £8.50 The best Western cook book I know for Chinese food - real dishes, not 'fake' Western ones, and the book has recipes for sauces and dips too.
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 | The Food of Morocco: A Journey for Food Lovers (Cookery) by Murdoch Books
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £11.45 A simple to follow Moroccan cook book
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 | Jewish Cooking (Cooking for Pleasure) by Molly Lyons Bar-David
Buy used from: £2.04 A must for every Jew.
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 | Essential Asian Cookbook
Buy new: £8.41 / Used from: £7.95 A great selection of recipes for those who want a general introduction to the various cuisines of Asia
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 | New Larousse Gastronomique by Hamlyn
Buy new: £24.00 / Used from: £17.14 The Classic reference book for French food and recipes
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 | Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £2.38 The great Roman chef left us his cook book - the recipes are a little imprecise, but fun to try to re-create
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 | Tamasin's Kitchen Bible: The One And Only Book For Every Cook by Tamasin Day-Lewis
Buy used from: £4.93 It really is the bible for simple home cooking and comfort food
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 | Food and Feasting in Art (Guide to Imagery) by Silvia Malaguzzi
Buy new: £9.74 / Used from: £9.27 Food, art, feasting ... where can one go wrong?
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 | Complete Mushroom Book: The Quiet Hunt by Antonio Carluccio
Buy new: £9.22 / Used from: £5.47 I love mushrooms ....
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 | Pol Roger by Cynthia Parzych
I love their Blanc de Blancs and Cuvee Winston Churchill ...
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 | Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens by James Davidson
Buy new: £11.99 More history than cooking ... but lots of sex and food!
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 | Tastes and Temptations: Food and Art in Renaissance Italy (California Studies in Food & Culture) by J Varriano
Buy new: £14.93 / Used from: £11.30 Food + art + Renaissance = my idea of perfection!
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 | French Cheeses (Eyewitness Companions) by Dk
Buy new: £7.57 / Used from: £6.92 I went through a phase where I wanted to try all the AOC French cheeses, and this book proved to be invaluable - plus it got me out of the rut of buying the same cheeses again and again ....
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 | An Invitation to Italian Cooking by Antonio Carluccio
Buy used from: £8.57 I've had an edition of this for 20 years or so, and still use it regularly
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 | Turquoise by Greg Malouf
Buy used from: £41.20 Turkish food ... my mouth waters just thinking about it.
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 | How to Cook the Perfect... by Marcus Wareing
Buy new: £12.97 / Used from: £11.74 Great chef, clear instructions = great book
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 | Knife Skills by Marcus Wareing
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £7.19 Knife skills - essential for making stabbed lamb, and for expressing anger in an appropriate, constructive way
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| The Art of Dining (A History of Cooking & Eating)
Buy used from: £4.16 How and why we ate what.
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 | How to Eat: Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (Cookery) by Nigella Lawson
Buy new: £11.39 / Used from: £5.95 Destined to become a classic - the only Nigella book I like.
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