Can you recommend a good cookery book please?

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I want to buy a cookery book for a friend. She is a good cook, and prefers good, fresh, healthy and simply put together food. She is Italian and has that ability to effortlessly put together the most wonderful meals.

So, do you have any recommendations please? I would prefer to stay away from tv chef writers with umpteen pictures of themselves and family.

Also doesn't have to be newly published.

I would go for one of Diana Henry’s, Ottolenghi or Sabrina Ghayour

There is a wonderful book Rose Petal Jam that is written by Polish writer

www.bookdepository.com/Rose-Petal-Jam-Beata-Zatorska/9780956699206

Otherwise I agree Ottolenghi or Nigel Slater

Nigel Slaters Kitchen Diaries are an interesting combination of recipes and notes, very readable for a cook, as is Five Quarters; recipes & notes from a kitchen in Rome by R. Roddy, looking at traditional dishes with a fresh eye.

Ottolenghi 'Simple' has just come out
Diana Henry 'How to eat a Peach'
Honey and Co (several)
Any of the Moro cookbooks
Tamasin Day Lewis Kitchen Bible is excellent

I got a Thomasina Miers book out of the library and then just had to buy it. I very rarely buy cook books these days but I've made several dishes already and it's great.

It's called Home Cook.

Thanks everyone. I adore Nigel Slater. Leaning towards Ottolenghi.

Claudia Roden's Mediterranean Cooking (contains only vegetarian and seafood recipes), Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian (not really so much "vegetarian" as "vegetables"), or Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz's The Food of Spain and Portugal. All extremely reliable and with a broad focus on fresh, good quality ingredients and with lots of delicious but lighter, non-stodgy recipes.

I love Jose Pizarro, Basque: Spanish Recipes from San Sebastian and Beyond. So many surprisingly good recipes.

I have the new Ottolenghi book 'simple' it's just out past week or so so would be a lovely present as hopefully she won't have it. There are some really great recipes in it.

Made in India. I recommend this to everyone. It will be s bit different from the Italian she is used to, the food is pretty healthy and is about flavour rather than spice. Lot of vegetarian too.

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Thank you for the cookery book recommendations, I’ve reserved some from the library to try. They all look very good from the Amazon reviews.

I saw the new ottolenghi Simple in Sainsbury's the other day - I think that's the one thanks @twoundertwo54321

Ooh, some nice suggestions here. I've got £20 of Waterstones points I was planning to spend on a cookery book so I will look at these. My contribution is the Leon vegetarian one - I got it out of the library and cooked loads from it.