Bought a cookbook recently

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I really don't need any more books, but that is not the point! I'm getting itchy fingers and have been browsing Amazon.
Has anyone bought a book recently that you've been impressed with? Or disappointed with?

Little Paris Cook book is fab!

www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Paris-Kitchen-Classic-approach/dp/0718158113

I love the Leiths books, particularly the Baking Bible and the Simple Cookery one.

Dan Lepard's Short and Sweet. The best baking book I have ever read. And I have many baking books!

I have Lorraine Pascales Fast, Fresh & Easy Food and I am loving it. Quite simple, but every thing has turned out fab.

I like Gok cooks Chinese and Jamie's America.
Also 50 Great curries of India.
One of my most used, but not new is Rick Stein's Far Eastern Odyssey.
I have my eye on Hairy Biker's pies next.
Oh, just bought Great British Bake off if you like baking, and a Bollywood cookbook, but not used that yet.
Valentine Warner's writing is brilliant, as is every dish of his I've tried, his food is interesting too, ditto Simon Hopkinson.

I haven't got it yet but the one I'm slightly lusting after it's Claudia Roden's new book on Spanish cooking. Also volume 2 of Nigel Slater's kitchen diaries is due out some time soon I think.

Just bought Rose Elliott's 30-minute vegetarian as i was running out of ideas. First experiment this evening!

I quite fancy the new Lorraine Pascale, or the James Martin Slow Cooking, or Jamies 15 minute meals, but the last 2 are only on pre order

Not a cookbook but DH just got the flavour thesaurus by niki segnit which is amazing. It may not have recipes as such but it is making us much better cooks.

Thats on my wishlist Xia!

And mine too, but I need Chris Badenoch's first.

I second Dan Lepard's Short & Sweet. I've made loads from it, with only one disaster (which I asked him about when he did a webchat here last year). If it's cooking rather than baking, try Plenty by Ottolenghi if you like veggie stuff. I believe he's bringing out a new book soon called Jerusalem. It looks great too. So many cookbooks, so little time...

saint claudia roden and her newish spanish book
paula wolfert's moroccan book
ottolenghi (money for old rope but lovely nonetheless)

I second "Gok Cooks Chinese". If you don't do a lot of chinese cooking you'll need to invest in some items that he uses in practically every recipe (including rice wine, sesame oil, light and dark soy sauce, fish sauce etc etc) but I got all this stuff really cheaply at my local chinese supermarket. Then you're good to go for tons of recipes, since most of the basics are store cupboard items that keep for ages. You just need to remember to buy meat and some bits of veg. I've mixed and matched across recipes as well - you don't have to be really precise in the fresh ingredients for a lot of them as long as you stick to the right spices and marinades.