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Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours

Jamie Oliver
Nigella Christmas: Food, Family, Friends, Festivities

Nigella Lawson
Nigella Express

Nigella Lawson

The accompaniment to her new 13 part prime-time series for the Autumn which will be perfect for those of us who need instant culinary gratification! Fast foods, ingenious short cuts, terrific time-saving ideas and easy, delicious meals for all the family.
Cooking for Friends: Food from My Table

Gordon Ramsay
Jamie at Home: Cook Your Way to the Good Life

Jamie Oliver

This book is very close to my heart. It's about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When I began writing it, I didn't really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly... my vegetable
Gordon Ramsay's Healthy Appetite

Gordon Ramsay
Spilling the Beans

Clarissa Dickson-Wright
Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking

Delia Smith
Rick Stein's Coast to Coast

Rick Stein
Cook with Jamie: My Guide to Making You a Better Cook

Jamie Oliver
A Taste of My Life

Raymond Blanc
Delia's Complete Cookery Course - Classic Edition: Vol 1-3 in 1v

Delia Smith
How to be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking

Nigella Lawson
Pastry

Michel Roux
Gary Rhodes 365: One Year. One Book. One Simple Recipe for Every Day

Gary Rhodes
Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food: Recipes from "The F Word"

Gordon Ramsay
The River Cottage Fish Book

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Nick Fisher

More than just a cookbook, this beautifully produced volume in three parts promotes a total understanding of British fish, from their natural habitats to what sauce they go best with to how to respect their seasonality, in keeping with the River Cottage e
Recipes from a 3 Star Chef

Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay: Chef has to be one of the most sumptuous cookery books ever produced: massive and imposing, with a silver-embossed cover encased in a silver case. And the book itself, rather like its controversial author, represents something new in cookery books. Ramsay has, of course, made a reputation for himself not just for his considerable abilities as a chef, but as a short tempered martinet, tearing into his luckless students with expletive-filled rage. But that spleen is crucial to the man's philosophy (born out of a desire for perfection), and it is conveyed between the delicious-looking recipes presented here (cooking, as Ramsay forcibly reminds us, can't be made up as you go along -- you've got to work, work, work). The recipes themselves look absolutely amazing, such as pan-roasted fillet of John Dory with Cromer Crab, crushed new potatoes and a basil vinaigrette (and it should be noted that Quentin Bacon's beautiful photographs are a massive asset to the book, doing full justice to the visual appeal of the food).
In deserts, too, the aspirational appeal here is impressive -- perhaps most of us would not be able to turn out (without trial and error) a raspberry, lemon and basil millefeuille with milk ice cream that looks quite as breathtaking as it does here, but Ramsay's book is calculated to inspire us. Perhaps reading Chef is the perfect way to help us try to cook like Gordon Ramsay; for most of us, a spell in his restaurant kitchen would mean blood on the floor -- here we can learn from his cookery genius without having to put up with the tirades. What more could any aspiring chef want? --Barry Forshaw
Mary Berry's Ultimate Cake Book: Over 200 Classic Recipes

Mary Berry

Over many years, Mary Berry has perfected the art of cake-making and her skills have earned her a reputation as the queen of cakes. Now she has updated her classic home baking bible, the Ultimate Cake Book, and once again shares with you the secrets of he
Delia Smith's Christmas

Delia Smith

In this collection of the very best of her Christmas recipes, Delia Smith demonstrates how you can easily cope with the whole gamut of Christmas entertaining while still having plenty of time to relax with your family and friends. Whether this is the firs