Your favorite recipe books?

[Glaucus]

So what are your favroite recipe books?

Mine has to be

Great foods of the world -ISBN 1-84038-930-3
It's actually a collection of 10 books (Italy, Mexico, Greece, India, Morocco, Thailand, Spain, Japan, Ireland, china)
At the front it has a couple of pages of common ingredients and a little bit about each, then a double page per recipe, with a nice colour photo. I detest recipe books without photos.
Not many recipes per book, but the ones I've tried have been great.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Recipes-World-globe-trotting-collection/dp/1840389303/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1236275906&sr=11-1
Well worth the £2.85 cost



The Moroccan cookbook -ISBN 9781844764303
Again not a huge number of recipes, but again very good.
A great introduction to Moroccan cuisine, followed by several pages explaining the various flavours and ingredients. Then photo packed recipes.
A must try is the serpent cake.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moroccan-Cookbook-Easy-make-Step/dp/1844764303/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1236276208&sr=11-1

The world of spice - ISBN 1856264726
Fantastic recipes, although not every recipe has a picture. but it makes up for this with great description and the best spice and flavour guide I have ever seen. With each spice having a hole page with a picture.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Spice-Complete-Historical-Inspirational/dp/1856264726/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1236276394&sr=11-1

As you can tell I like cook books with introduction to that countrys crusine, pictures and ingredient guides. So what are your must have recipe books

[iCraig]

Internet. ;D

[Glaucus]

Internet. ;D

The reason I still don't use the internet for game reviews. You have to know what you are searching for. Books are great for just browsing. I use the internet a lot, but only if I know what I'm looking for, or at least roughly.

[Jonny69]

Yup, I like books for that reason too.

My faves are as follows:

Jamie's Italy, Pat Chapman's Curry Bible (Indian), Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible (all Eastern and African food), We'll Eat Again (WW2 and rationing cookery),

Pat Chapman's Curry Bible is out of print now but it's the ultimate ultimate Indian cookery book.

[Glaucus]

have you got the isbn for pat chapman. I need an awesome curry book.

[Danny]

I used to buy a lot of cookery books. Nigel Slater is by far the best cookery writer I've bought.

These days though I just have a sub for Good food mag for £16 a year gives me everything I ever need without buying books and much more variety.

Delicious is also a very good mag.

[Jonny69]

have you got the isbn for pat chapman. I need an awesome curry book.
You can get it second hand on Amazon. It's heavy going and requires a lot of prep stuff that you sling in the freezer. If you want a more everyday book I recommend the Madhur Jaffrey one:)

[Rich_L]

http://pages.prodigy.net/johnmariani/031124/bbq.jpg

Some good recipes and stories about where the recipes come from. :D

[Flibster]

Cooking for Blokes
Flash cooking for blokes
Foreign Cooking for blokes

Great for quick and easy food.

[Fayshun]

Foreign Cooking for blokes

The Thai Peanut Chicken recipe in this book is awesome.

[Flibster]

The Thai Peanut Chicken recipe in this book is awesome.

Sadly, the peanut bit takes it off the menu for me.

[Slinwagh]

I got this yesterday.

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb43/Slinwagh/IMG_0023.jpg

He came to the table and signed it for me!!!!

I have a selection of books, Nigel Slater, Gordon Ramsay, Angela Hartnett and Aiden Byrne to name a few!