What cookery books do you recommend?

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Love to snuggle up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a good cookery book to read.

I know quite sad.

What cookery books can anyone recommend as a good and informative read?

Jamie Oliver The Naked Chef and Return of the Naked Chef.

Anything by Nigella (can't watch her on tv, but love the books) or Nigel Slater. I only work with Nigel based chefs

Anything by Jamie or Nigella.

We've got a good sushi one too.

Also like the 'innocent' smoothie books

Good Housekeeping does a fabulous cookbook.

nigella's domestic goddess is a good read

dh loves the heston blumenthal's family food one,quite radical new ways of cooking meat.

nigel slaters realfood

but we always falll back on good old delia

Nigella - all of them - great to read but I've not had much luck with many of her recipes.

Madhur Jaffery's "World Vegetarian" - lovely - a huge block of a book, with lots of anecdotes about herself and her family; truly lovely.

The 2 "World Food cafe" books - veggie, loads of gorgeous photographs and info about the places they've travelled to in order to get recipes.

Real Fast Food by Nigel Slater - essential reading for anyone who's not confident about cooking / too busy.

Agree with anything Nigella or Jamie, also Moro, especially if it is reading you are after.

I like How To Eat by Nigella it's a good read, not just full of recipes
Agree, Real Fast Food is good by Nigel as is The Kitchen Diaries.

Well, I think Elizabeth David is interesting reading, but I also loved the cookbook by Felicity and Roald Dahl. Nigel is interesting and I get some good use out of him. I have a real liking also for The Joy of Cooking, an American classic with proper recipes for american pancakes, cookies, hoppin john and the like.

Feast by Nigella. I love reading that.

The Dairy Book of Home Cookery - I learnt to cook using my Mum's copy, and she got me my copy when I got a place pf my own. Absolute classic, and should be on everyone's bookshelf.

Anything by Nigel Slater, I love him.

to read I love Nigella and Elizabeth David, also Claudia Roden's(?) one about Jewish cookery

Agree - Elizabeth David is great - not so much cookery books, but books about cookery, and eating.

nigel slater - all excellent
good house keeping book is great for basics
jamie's Italy v good

Another vote for the Dairy book of home cookery
Used it loads
Also any Nigel Slater.....mmmmmmmmm yum

does anybody rate Tana Ramsey's new cookbook? am tempted but ahve so many other cookbooks just gathering dust.

confession:
I wrote to him and he wrote me a LOVELY postcard back sigh.... Italic, tasteful, lovely. I love Nigel. In a platonic way.

Any Good Housekeeping ones
The Cookery Year - it's seasonal

Another vote for Nigella. Cookery Year is a wonderful cookbook, but not that great for reading in bed IMHO. Dear Francesca is great for that - cookbook come memories of Italian family recipes.

Wow,thanks for all the replys.

Some great ideas will search on Amazon and e bay.

Trying to update my cookery book collection.

Skyler-someone bought me Feast by Nigella and have yet to read it.
I also have How to eat which I love reading.Nigella makes it all sound so appertising.

I have some of the old paperbacks the Times did which are interesting reading.
LOve looking round the secondhand bookshops for old cookery books.
The national trust properties near me both have good secondhand bookshops where you can get some great cookery books .