QUICK QUICK! must have COOKERY BOOKS - DH is doing an Amazon order and my mind is a blank

[suzywong]

come on what shall I order? Non faddy, non trendy just sturdy and essential

thanks

already have Larousse etc

NO tv chefs, please

Simon Hopkinson "Roast Chicken and other stories" gets my vote
Nigella Lawson "How to Eat" for general reading and drooling

How to Eat was pre TV for Nigella if this helps?

Prue Leith?

Claudia Roden on middle eastern cooking
Definitely Simon Hopkinson
Lindsey Bareham's new one, Dinner in a Dash, is beyond fab
Have you discovered Trish Deseine? Although from NI, she was married to a Frenchman and originally published in French. Now some of her stuff is appearing in translation

so far I chose 1080 recipes

what else what else

( I'm so excited because books are very expensive here in Australia and this is Amazon UK, we don't even have Amazo here, just a peddler who comes around every rainy season with a handcart of withered paperbacks)

and the Simon Hopkinson - thanksfor hte recommendation

I find Nige somewhat unsavoury ever since I read the chapter in Toast about the walnut whips and the Lover's Lane. Shudder

The Moro Books, by Sam + Samantha Clark?

silver spoon is here

god they're all tv chefs these days. anna del conte?

Nigel Slaters Real Food
Rachel Allens ones (I use these A LOT), Rachels favourite food or rachels favourite food for friends
lindsey barehams The Fish Store (adds Dinner in a Dash to shopping list)
Agree Nigella How To Eat - the original and best
Verdana for fab italian veggie cookign

moro cookbook fab. and how to eat by nigella.

french bakery i tried to order it but out of stock.

also want (but have not yet got) the giorgio locatelli italian food one, published about 15-18 months ago.........
am also a fan of nigel's real food, and jamie's original one (what's the name?)

loathe delia

i think you could do a lot worse than look at 'who else bought this book' on amazon, choose a few and come and ask us what we think.

I like Nigella's Feast.

delia has totally lost it

chocolate cake made with aunt bessies mashed potato

wtf

HAHAHAHAHA

I thought that said SHARON OSBOURNE not Shane Osborne

yes, I am a chef , what of it, pray?

A little random, but someone recently recommended to me Knife Skills Illustrated

I'd suggest Thai Food by David Thompson, but given you're in Oz (I think?) it's a little bit "coals to Newcastle". Elizabeth David?