:: Favourite Cookbooks....

Here are some of mine. I actually probably have one hundred and seventy two favourites.  But here is a good cross-section.  I like a bit of French technique. I like a bit of simple home cooking. I like a bit of spice. I like a bit of nonna.  I like a bit of Australian storytelling.  In a nutshell my likes are as mixed up as my blog.  But that is okay.  There are many other cookbooks that I cook from regularly, and with the advent of le internet it is so easy to source almost any recipe you choose online.  And then there are all those ace food magazines to contend with too. Wowee.  A feast, it is.  Here is why I chose these books....

• Mastering the Art of French Cooking : because I love Julia
• Stir : because I love the curry pastes in this book
• The Kitchen Diaries : because I adore Nigel Slater's books and love his buttery approach
• Sarah Raven : because I love the photography and this book is an ode to vegetables and fruit
• River Cottage : because it has all the great basics you would want to cook
• South East Asian Food : a classic in print since 1970 : the best Asian almanac, I think.
• Marcella : for real, simple, elegant Italian food
• Maggie : because I love her.  And she cooks so intuitively and generously.
• Jake : A lovely book chock full of stories, recipes and life in general
• Market Vegetarian : for the sort of modern vegetarian food we all want to eat
• Jamie : the very first step in Jamie's astonishing, far reaching empire
• Elizabeth David : because her stern tone are just the thing when I want to be told how to cook something
• Claudia : because she knows all about spices and her food is full of oomph and love

I would love to know some of your favourites!  Do tell!

xx Pip

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