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Cookbooks you will actually use and love🥘🍜
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items If you enjoy spending time in the kitchen trying new recipes and exploring different foods then this is the list for you.
I trained at Culinary school for nine months and have come across a plethora of cookery books, some are overly complicated and ...
Sections
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Home Baking
Cookery Skills
World cuisine
Savoury Cooking & Main Meals
Home Baking
A collection of home baking, cakes and desserts 🎂
Mary Berry is the Queen of baking, this book to me is such a resource that if baking anything from cakes, breads and bakes I would use as a guide. Her recipes are foolproof, they are well described in a step-by-step and is a timeless book to have.
Mary Berry's Baking Bible: Revised & Updated
Nigella is a famed home cook, but she also has a talent for cookery and food writing. Her methodology is easy to follow and the photography is also beautiful.
At My Table is a collection of warming and comforting dishes, alongside dreamy sweets and treats. My favourite recipe from this book is her white chocolate blondie pudding.
At My Table is a collection of warming and comforting dishes, alongside dreamy sweets and treats. My favourite recipe from this book is her white chocolate blondie pudding.
Nigella Lawson, At My Table
Cookery Skills
Useful step by step cookery books that you will use in a professional kitchen.
When I was at culinary school for nine months this book was our guide and food bible. The book shares methods, recipes and food preparation and knowledge. I frequently dip in and out of this book.
Learn about how to make sauces, prepare seafood, mea...
Professional Chef Level 2 Diploma
I mean who doesn't like potatoes? I came across Poppy Cooks on Tiktok for her in depth potato series. The book showcases the many different ways you can cook the humble potato. Poppy has Michilin fine dining experience and some of the recipes require...
Poppy Cooks The Potato Book - 101 Recipes
I have to admit I have a soft spot for Prue Leith, she was at my university graduation and I have always admired her foodie background and knowledge. This cook book is practical and fuss free and true to the TV show. Her recipes include helpful kitch...
Life's Too Short to Stuff a Mushroom: Prue Leith
This is a classic book in the world of food writing. If you are making a Sunday roast for the first time or hosting Chris dinner Delia's book will help guide you.
Complete Cookery Course: Classic Edition By Delia Smith
World cuisine
A collection of world travel cookery books.
If you have ever been lucky enough to get a table at Dishoom you will appreciate this cookery book. Dishoom have created incredible dishes in this book, I have been to India and this book showcases some of the best Bombay dishes on offer. The photogr...
Dishoom: First Cookbook from Indian Restaurant
I remember enjoying the accompanying TV show Rachel had “The Little Paris Kitchen” and I have to say the book is just as good. Rachel did indeed live in Paris, in fact Le Cordon Bleu, the world-famous cookery school. So if you are looking for a Frenc...
Little Paris Kitchen, Rachel Khoo
This book ties alongside his TV show "The road to Mexico". This book is filled with traditional Mexican dishes, beautiful photography and storytelling.
The street food section is great and you come across lesser known Mexican recipes too.
The Road to Mexico
Savoury Cooking & Main Meals
I am a huge Ina Garten, barefoot Contessa fan. I find her style of cooking relaxed and not pretentious, some cookery books tend to be the opposite. This book offers a great selection of party foods, starts, mains and desserts. Every christmas time I ...
Barefoot Contessa Foolproof Cookbook
Relax and enjoy slow, lovingly prepared foods.
This book is filled with slow cooker and stovetop or oven, so everyone can enjoy it. This style of cooking is designed to be 'set and forget', so it fits in around busy schedules.
Slow Cooking: Wholefood Recipes Book
From food critic and cookery writer, Tom Parker Bowles (Yes Queen Camilla's son) has created a collection of 140 of his kitchen staples; the dishes he cooks day in, day out. This is home cooking at its best – Fish Pie, Shoulder of Lamb with Pommes Bo...
Lets Eat: Tom Parker Bowles
I love any Covent garden soup books but this one is a well rounded one to use all year round.
I especially love their autumnal recipes and they focus on what's in season at the time.
Soup for All Seasons