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This yoke's awesome. The only book I have, and might ever need. Loadza great Spanish recipes.

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But... is there an equivalent for French cooking?
 
Delia Smith's complete cookery course is excellent. It was the first one I ever got and it's really really useful.

Nigel Slater is my favourite food writer. I have nearly all his books and I'd highly recommend each one. If I only had to pick one though, it would be Appetite and Real Fast Food.
 
Nigel Slater is my favourite food writer. I have nearly all his books and I'd highly recommend each one. If I only had to pick one though, it would be Appetite and Real Fast Food.

ditto, and ditto.

other can't do without 'em volumes in the minka household:
- patricia wells: bistro and trattoria
what it says on the tin: bistro and trattoria recipes. top stuff. the pasta sauce recipes in trattoria are all awesome.
- the moosewood restaurant cooks at home
i have made almost everything in this book, and it's so well-used it's practically scratch'n'sniff. mostly veggie, some fish, everything is really simple, quick, and yummy.
- nadine abensur: cranks bible
vegetabley goodness.
- donna hay: off the shelf and, er, a couple of others whose names i can't remember
more super quick everyday recipes. also lovely food porn pictures of everything, so you can skim through the book and go "yummy! want that!"
- the eagle cooks: big flavours and rough edges
food from the london gastro pub - loads of nice pasta/grilled meat/stew recipes. i have a feeling this may be out of print...
- (unavailable in shops) a battered blue folder with all the recipes i've cut out of newspapers/got from friends/printed out from the internet.
 
yeah Nigel Slater books are top, have the diary one.
Got the Italian version of that Spanish book for a present last year, its called Silver Spoon, bloody enormous, brillaint stuff.
First book i bought was the Penguin one, simple, broad range of stuff and tastes, was a brilliant starter, and still use it loads.
I keep a scarp book too.
Another good Spanish style one is the Moro book, have the 1st one only. It deals with alot of North African/Persian foods also
 
Mastering The Art of French Cooking - Beck, Bertholle and Child

It's brilliant for learning techniques, and is my go-to book when I don't know how to do something and can't get my dad on the phone.
 
I picked up Vegan With a Vengeance recently from waterstones. Made me want to punch my fist in the air.

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Yeah, that Darina one is great too. It's fucking brilliant for every basic master recipe plus millions of variations. Really easy to read and plenty of pictures for most recipes. It's well worth the 35 quid.

Picked up the Vegetarian Bible in Marks and Spencers for my mother and had to double back to get one for myself too. It's a great book for any newcomer to the world of lentils. My parents recently "turned veggie" after myself and ddmurph's visit home for the xmas and I couldn't have found a better, clearer, and more beautifully photographed cookbook I feel.

I think Vegetarian Cooking Without is great because it manages to be dairy, sugar, yeast and gluten free... All the things I'm trying to keep a hould of. Plus, it's got a fantastic introduction that really turned me on to nutritional therapy and food energetics.

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I just made my first recipe from Julie Sahni's "Classic Indian Cookery" - minced lamb with a spicy yoghurty sauce - and it's lovely.

For French cooking, I have the Larousse des Cuisines Régionales, it's a mega-compendium of French regional cooking. So in Normandy it's all apples and butter, in the Périgord they put truffles and foie gras in everything, and in Marseille they love the fish. Highly recommended, if you can read recipe French.

I've mentioned Paula Wolfert's Moroccan Cuisine here before, but I'll do it a second time, because I really think it's the best cookbook I've ever read. Not just because Moroccan food is euphorically wonderful, but also because every recipe I've made from it has worked first time.
 

The Leith's is the only one of those I have, I wouldn't call it essential though. It's good on general cooking knowledge, but I don't think there's any recipe in it I've wanted to make twice. McGee on Food and Cooking is much better on the science side.

Of course, you can never have too many cookbooks...
 
The Leith's is the only one of those I have, I wouldn't call it essential though. It's good on general cooking knowledge, but I don't think there's any recipe in it I've wanted to make twice. McGee on Food and Cooking is much better on the science side.

It's not one for recepies - I'd have the Larousse Gastronomique as a dictionary and leiths as a basic manual. They both have their place but neither would be the place to look for a recipe.

That Harold mcGeee book is great.

Simon Hopkinsons books are good too - Roast Chicken and Other Stories and Second Helpings of Roast Chicken.
 
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Meals from under wheels.
How does "windshield wabbit" or "hushed puppies" grab you?

actually, that kind of reminds me of another top book - rose prince's the new english kitchen. it's sort of half a home economics book and half really good recipes - loads of stuff about buying good quality local food (and why a lot of cheap shit is false economy and generally bad) and getting the best/most out of it (you'll believe you can get about five meals out of a chicken!). and yes, the game chapter briefly mentions roadkill.

oh, and the author is the sister of one of the moro chefs. i suspect there's top scran round their place when they do family dinners.

i love that harold mcgee book as well. and i really must try some simon hopkinson.
 

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