 | The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller
Buy new: £21.22 / Used from: £12.99 Clean, flavourful dishes; everything that Californian cooking has come to represent
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 | Pierre Gagnaire: Reinventing French Cuisine by Jean-Francois Abert
Buy new: £14.87 / Used from: £14.42 A start to understanding the eclectic genius of Gagnaire, but only a handful of dishes are sufficient to demonstrate the depth of his cooking
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 | L'Encyclopédie culinaire du XXIe siècle by Marc Veyrat
Buy new: £235.00 Stunning in breadth and depth of the dishes and use of ingredients
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 | Recipes from a 3 Star Chef Limited Edition by Gordon Ramsay
Buy new: £25.00 / Used from: £17.78 Eventually a book from this chef that starts to demonstrate his real qualities
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 | The Big Fat Duck Cookbook by Heston Blumenthal
Buy new: £77.94 / Used from: £74.03 Includes both simple and complex dishes with background on their creation
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 | El Bulli: 1998-2002 by Ferran Adria
Buy used from: £160.00 Just an example of the magic of elBulli; the recipes in this volume are more accessible than in the other publications from this author
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 | Charlie Trotter's Cookbook by Charlie Trotter
Buy new: £25.24 / Used from: £20.00 Before Trotter got on the celebrity track, a top quality exposition of fabulous dishes
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 | Atelier of Alain Ducasse: The Artistry of a Master Chef and His Proteges (Masters of Gastronomy) by Alain Ducasse
Buy used from: £29.47 Concentrating on a limited number of ingredients; Ducasse & his disciples put the elements through their paces
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 | Gastronomie pratique: études culinaires ; suivies de Traitement de lobésité des gourmands by Ali-Bab
A fantastic alternative reference for classical French cooking
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 | Bocuse in Your Kitchen: Simple French Recipes for the Home Chef by Paul Bocuse
Buy new: £12.47 / Used from: £11.72 Workmanlike journey through a French kitchen
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 | World Cuisine - Italy (1) by Antonello Colonna - Carlo Cracco
Buy used from: £0.01 Little has been published of inspiring chef Carlo Cracco; we wait for a more complete work. If you read Italian, try getting hold of his book 'Sapori in Movimento'
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 | At the Crillon and at Home: Recipes by Jean-François Piège: Recipes by Jean-Francois Piege by Jean-François Piège
Buy used from: £50.61 Impressive - wonderful demonstration of clasical French cooking meeting the modernist style of presentation
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| Arzak, recetas by Juan Mari Arzak
Perhaps a little old-style in presentation, but solid world class dishes from the grandfather of Spanish modern cooking
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