Right then all you foodistas, what's your favourite recipe book?

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The one you refer to again and again, and wouldn't be without.

Nigel Slater - Real Fast Food.

nigella how to eat

Nigella how to eat...and then Nigels Real Fast Food

nigella - how to eat
my Hamlyn all colour recipe book - full of old favourites which always work (i have had a copy for years)

The Good Food magazine if I'm allowed to include that?
If not, then yes Real Fast food.

[1] Moro Sam and Sam Clarke

[2] Feast by Nigella

[3] Obserber Food Montly magazine

cooks companion - stephanie alexander

Complete Cookery Course (Delia - patronising but good) and How to Eat (though I start reading and forget about cooking at times!)

Nigella and Nigel are great. Another one I use week in, week out, is 'Good Food for Busy People' by Sarah Woodward. It is a cheap paperback, no pictures, just recipes but contains many fab everyday recipes. I'm on my 3rd copy - the others wore out from overuse.

def 'Floyds India' (Keith Floyd) - hhhhmmmmmmmm so gorgeous as have tried a few recipes and they are FAB!!

we use it when we have friends come round for Tea and they said "That is GORGEOUS!!"

Cheap and Easy by Rose Elliott. Then her Bean Book.

Then probably Delia's Complete Cookery Course, Farmhouse Kitchen and oh, I don't know, I've got over 200 cookery books so it just depends what mood I'm in and what I'm flicking through. I read them for pleasure!

Any by Bill Granger, ohh how I could trade my DH in for a man who loves to cook

For reading I love Nigella. For cooking, it has to be Rose Elliot or The World Food Cafe, although tbh I don't really follow recipes, just use them for inspiration.

Mary Berry's Complete Cookbook, published by Dorling Kindersley, and has over 1000 recipes in it. For a special occasion, usually reach for Delia and Nigella cookbooks.

Leiths vegetarian bible.

I like Nigella's How to Eat and Nigel's Real Food/30 minute suppers and I love reading recipe books for fun so I have Leith's vegetarian bible, lots of Jamie, Rick Stein, some Madhur Jaffrey, Elizabeth David, Ruth Watson.

Claudia Roden because it's practically a historical novel and makes fantasticreading, as well as beinginspirational for flavours and international dishes.
Delia Smith (the original one, not her more recent cookery couse) for good advice and fundamental stuff.