Top 5, desert island cook books?

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I'm a bit of a cookbook collector, I love them and read them like novels. I've been given Amazon vouchers and to me that means free cookbooks.

So, for ideas as to what books to buy, i'm hoping to get some gems from you lot

My current top 5 (though this changes at the drop of a hat)

1. Nigel Slater kitchen diaries
2. Nigella how to eat
3. Sara Lewis slow cooker easy
4. Rick stien coast to coast
5. Bill grangers everyday Asian

What are.yours?

Ooh me too. Nigel Slater also in there, others a bit more specialist but even Nigella Christmas used all year round. Moro comes tops as it's the source of my most special "wow" dishes.

1. Moro
2. Nigel Slater Kitchen Diaries
3. River Cottage Baby and Toddler
4. Nigella Christmas
5. Elizabeth David Classics

1. Canadian Living 'Everyday Favourites'.
2. Eat, Drink and be Vegan -Dreena Burton (not vegetarian...just like it)
3. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone - Deborah Madison - ditto
4. Apples for Jam - Tessa Kiros
5. my recipe binder, which has all my treasured magazine clippings etc.

Ooh good thread.

1. Nigella How to Eat
2. Cooking like Mummyji by Vicky Bhogal - brilliant every day Asian
3. Ottolenghi
4. Ottolenghi Jerusalem (yes, I am obsessed)
5. Delia online - first port of call when I want to check something, particularly baking/method/if I add x to y, roughly what will happen.

Delia smith complete cookery course
Nigel Slater Appetite
Leith's Cookery Bible

Can't imagine needing anything else! But the Delia could count as three separate books

Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook

You really don't need anything else

Tana Ramsey -family kitchen
Tana Ramsey- home made
Nigella - Christmas
HFW-veg
Robin Robertson- vegan village

Good thread!

For me it's...

Ottolenghi
Plenty (also by Yotam Ottolenghi)
Leith's Cookery Bible
Gourmet Food for a Fiver by Jason Atherton (great for entertaining)
River Cottage Everyday

I will have to get hold of Jerusalem, wilson!

oooh I love my books

Nigella How to Eat
Fay Ripley Fay's Family Food
The Intolerant Gourmet by Pippa Kendrick
Cook Now Eat Later by Mary Berry
Delia's Winter

I have over 3000 cookbooks so love this thread. (They're on my pinterest page under my MN name if anybody wants more suggestions of what to buy)

My go to books are-

Nigella Lawson How To Eat / Feast/ How to be a Domestic Goddess

Nigel Slater - Fruit and Veg books/ Kitchen Diaries 1 and 2

Rebecca Rather- The Pastry Queen

Sue Lawrences Book of Baking

Diana Kennedy- Mexican cooking

Juniors Cookbook

David Thompson - Thai Food

James Villas Southern Cooking / My Mothers Southern Kitchen

Fuschia Dunlop's Sharks Fin & Sichuan Pepper/ Every grain of Rice

Paul Prudhomme - Chef Paul's Louisiana Kitchen

I'm sorry but i cannot narrow it down more but I guess if i had to choose just one I'd take Nigel Slater's fruit/veg or Kitchen Diaries but if it was an island near the Far East I'd take Fuschia or David Thompson!

Delia - Summer
Delia - Winter
Nigel Slater - Real Food
Nigella - How to Eat
Good Housekeeping Baking Bible

Schmalex it's both a brilliant cook book and a really interesting read.

And worth the cover price for the lamb shwarma alone.

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking
Nigella Lawson - How to Eat
Rose Prince - Kitchenella
Mallika Basu - Miss Masala
Simon Hopkinson -Roast Chicken & Other Stores