 | An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (Cook's Classic Library) by Elizabeth David
Buy used from: £7.16 Simply the most evocative collection of food writing of the 20th Century. Nigel Slater clearly had some great sources.
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 | Appetite: So What Do You Want to Eat Today? by Nigel Slater
Buy new: £13.99 / Used from: £10.81 I want to eat NOW Nigel - chop to it with your ideas. Just reading the line about how he refuses to teach any reader how to cook a steak well done is enough to get my interest.
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 | Roast Chicken and Other Stories (Ebury Paperback Cookery) by Simon Hopkinson
Buy new: £7.26 / Used from: £0.94 Whimsical and delightful - written in handy bite-sized segments if you're busy.
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 | The River Cottage Fish Book by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Buy new: £21.49 / Used from: £10.00 The title tells the story. So much love, devotion, time, energy and fun has clearly gone into compiling this tome. No wonder it won a Food Writers Guild Award.
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 | Planet Chicken: The Shameful Story of the Bird on Your Plate by Hattie Ellis
Buy new: £14.24 / Used from: £0.01 Modern food comes with a hidden cost. Hattie, with a little nudge from HFW gives us the grisly detail. Reading this is akin to cleaning out the hamster's cage - when it died in there months ago.
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 | Delia's How to Cook Book One by Delia Smith
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £0.01 Much as I loved Rory Bremner's send-up of these books, I can't help but have some quiet respect for the great lady. She recognised the same trend which lead to Jamie's ministry of food a decade early.
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 | The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen by Nigel Slater
Buy new: £11.02 / Used from: £10.13 I know it's Nigel again but this is the man who taught me to throw caution to the wind, roll-up my sleeves and know how and when to put in 'enough'.
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 | Grub On A Grant by Clarke
Buy used from: £0.01 Its recipes read somewhat simply (and a bit skanky) to me now but at the time, having something so compact and discreet to tell me how to knock-together those early sauces was a godsend., Thanks mum.
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 | The Silver Spoon
Buy new: £21.21 / Used from: £14.18 Bellissima! (Sorry). It may be short on imagery and fluffy description but its size, weight and sheet breadth of recipes which have kept the Italians going always helps out with obscure ingredients.
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 | Further Adventures in Search of Perfection by Heston Blumenthal
Buy new: £12.98 / Used from: £3.07 His recipe for a burger runs to about seven pages but you don't have to actually cook it! It's how he gets there which makes for fascinating reading - and handy tips for when you're in NY.
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