 | The French Laundry Cookbook by Thomas Keller
Buy new: £20.63 / Used from: £22.76 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: £16.87 / Used from: £16.95 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
Stunning in breadth and depth of the dishes and use of ingredients
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 | Recipes from a 3 Star Chef by Gordon Ramsay
Buy new: £21.88 / Used from: £15.27 Eventually a book from this chef that starts to demonstrate his real qualities
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 | Further Adventures in Search of Perfection by Heston Blumenthal
Buy new: £11.85 / Used from: £7.97 Closer to restaurant dishes; complex flavours & novel ideas
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 | El Bulli: 1998-2002 by Ferran Adria
Buy used from: £288.14 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: £26.26 / Used from: £19.00 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: £28.75 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: £12.97 / Used from: £8.66 Workmanlike journey through a French kitchen
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 | World Cuisine: Italy (1) by Antonello Colonna
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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