What Cookbooks do you own? How about us all submitting Lists of our various Cookbooks?

Jane Grigson's English Food
Jane Grigson Fruit
Jane Grigson Vegetables
Claudia Roden A book of Middle Eastern Cookery
Classic book of 1000 Indian Recipes
Classic Book of 1000 Chinese Recipes
Claudia Roden The Food of Italy
Edward de Pomaine Cooking in Ten Minutes
Indian Vegetarian Cookery Jack Santa Maria
Nigella Lawson How to Eat
The Masterchef Cookbook
Otto Ottolenghi Plenty my first foray into Gourmet Vegetarian Recipes
Alistair Little Cooking for Friends
Delia Smith Complete Cookery Book Good for basics
Rose Elliot The Bean Book for classic wholefood Veggie Recipes
Chinese Food made easy Ching hua Chung
Claudia Roden Picnics an intriguing book to open eyes to what can be eaten outdoors
Good Food Magazine various 100 recipe books
Jamie Oliver The Naked Chef
Rick Stein Seafood Odydessy
Rick Stein Seafood Lovers Guide to Britain
Nigel Slater Real Food in 30 minutes

With the advent of TV Chefs and willful Product placement in Good Food magazine, I have made deliberate attempts to move my Library to the Old Gaurd, before Derivative Recipes, TV Chefs selling books on back of programmes etc. I am very skeptical about the value of them except in very rare circumstances: The Gaurdian does fabulous Food with Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, and Nigel Slater both offenders but fab Recipes none the less.

So I thought we could post up our Cookery Book Libraries with commentary and take discussion from there. Hello to all from the Qaulity Budget Cookery Department.

Tags: books, cookery, inspiration, recipes

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Permalink Reply by Kate Hillier on October 1, 2010 at 2:16pm

Hi folks sorry for the absence but I lost my LAN Connection but praise God have been able to restore it!

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Permalink Reply by Kate Hillier on October 1, 2010 at 2:17pm

Nice to see Veggies and Meat Eaters interacting. I have Veggie friends one in particular, good to be Veggie Friendly as one might say.