A picture of cookbooks and a wooden spoon.

If you want to buy the cookbooks that I’ve cooked from or recommend, Amazon and Ebay are good places to start. I always buy second-hand where possible, I love the smell of a used cookbook and you often find some handwritten notes or scraps of other recipes. Charity shops are also a goldmine of cookbooks, and of course, support your own local bookshop where you can.

Currently cooking from

A copy of Nigel Slater's Real Food cookbook
The cover of Brutto cookbook.
Delia Smith Summer Collection book cover.
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Also on on my bookcase

Cover of Falling Cloudberries book.

Falling Cloudberries by Tessa Kiros

Cover of Barefoot Contessa at Home.

Barefoot Contessa at Home by Ina Garten

Cover of Domestic Goddess by Nigella.

How to be a domestic Goddess by Nigella Lawson

Cover of Simply the Best by Tamasin Day Lewis.

Simply the best by Tamasin Day-Lewis

Stanley Tucci book cover of Taste.

Taste by Stanley Tucci

Roast Figs, Sugar Snow by Diana Henry

Vintage Penguin Handbooks

These books are absolute gold mines of recipes.

Elizabeth Dvaid Spices and Aromatics book cover.

Spices, Salt and Aromatics by Elizabeth David

Jane Grigson Good Things book cover.

Good Things by Jane Grigson

Cheese cookery book.

Classic Cheese Cookery by Peter Graham

Elisabeth Ortiz Caribbean Cooking book.

Caribbean Cooking by Elisabeth Lambert-Ortiz

Chinese Food by Kenneth Lo book.

Chinese Food by Kenneth Lo

Bee Nilson Cookbook.

The Penguin Cookery Book by Bee Nilson

Pillsbury Bake-Off By Year

Pillsbury 1950 booklet cover.