 | The Cook's Companion by Stephanie Alexander
excellent recipes, inspiration filed by ingredient. the most ridiculously useful book.
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 | Bouchon by Thomas Keller
Buy new: £25.12 / Used from: £26.01 very do-able recipes, clever reworking of classic french recipes. start with the smoked trout salad. don't miss the variation on cauliflour cheese.
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 | Real Fast Food: 350 Recipes Ready-to-Eat in 30 Minutes by Nigel Slater
Buy used from: £2.00 no pictures, but full of ideas. pay attention to the little lists of variations: much wisdom hides there.
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 | Appetite by Nigel Slater
Buy used from: £79.72 more inspiration, with pictures! ideas to adapt, solid foundation recipes to build upon.
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 | Classic Bull: An Accidental Restaurateur's Cookbook by Stephen Bull
Buy used from: £50.00 full of great recipes: try the crab and cardamon salad, then the peanut butter hummus. recipes that never fail to impress.
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 | Delia's Complete Cookery Course - Classic Edition: Vol 1-3 in 1v by Delia Smith
Buy new: £8.37 / Used from: £4.59 the gospel according to St Delia, infallible recipes
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 | Four Seasons Cookery Book by Margaret Costa
Buy used from: £19.22 a lost classic of cookery back in print at last. good range, presented seasonally.
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 | Floyd on France by Keith Floyd
Buy used from: £1.60 wonderful book, brilliantly written - nothing to do with the muck he knocks together on tv. make your own tomato sauce. really. do!
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 | Elizabeth David Classics: "Mediterranean Food", "French Country Cooking" and "Summer Cooking" by Elizabeth David
Buy new: £10.53 / Used from: £7.64 blissful recipes. literate and informative. from an era when other people were eating avocado and ketchup and tinned pineapple marked the zenith of the exotic. recipes with a fresh and modern feel.
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 | Spices, Salt and Aromatics in the English Kitchen by Elizabeth David
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £6.05 a lovely little book from the most literate of food authors.
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 | Cafe Paradiso (Atrium Press) by Denis Cotter
Buy new: £16.76 / Used from: £14.77 bought to cope with a vegetarian dinner party, used countless times afterwards as the results were so good
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 | Paradiso Seasons by Denis Cotter
Buy new: £25.49 / Used from: £22.30 the sequel : worth it for the olive oil chocolate mousse alone, but plenty more to enjoy
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 | The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook: Where Asia Meets the Mediterranean (Mitchell Beazley Food) by Adrian Daniel
Buy used from: £9.97 veggie spice: superb fresh salsa ideas. the polenta corn cakes get made at least once a month.
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