Delia's How to Cook Book Three
Delia Smith, Miki Duisterhof (Photographer)
Delia continues and completes her journey through the fundamentals of cooking, revisiting traditional areas that are often overlooked, as well as exploring more contemporary concerns for the modern cook. The recipes, all beautifully photographed, range from neglected classics such as Old English Apple Hat, English Potted Crab and Smoked Collar of Bacon with Pease Pudding to exciting new flavours such as Teriyaki Grilled Marinated Salmon..

Rick Stein's Food Heroes
Rick Stein
What a likeable cook and writer Rick Stein is. Tirelessly generous, Food Heroes salutes those people who work hard, in the face of market pressures and often widespread indifference, to make available the very best British produce.....

Happy Days with the Naked Chef
Jamie Oliver
... some interesting additions from his travels to Australia, New Zealand, America and Japan.

Nigella Bites
Nigella Lawson
... the hair, the postmodern penchant for trailer trash, the eerily intense gaze, the Kim Novak eyebrows, all are present in this lavishly illustrated accompaniment to the TV series. To these may now be added the Playboy-bunny T-shirt and the lilac pashmina worn recklessly and negligently at the barbecue

How to Be a Domestic Goddess
Nigella Lawson
... large quantities of butter, cream, eggs, sugar, chocolate, nuts, cream cheese and all the other foodstuffs to which with dreary inevitability attaches the deadly word "sinful". But in Nigella Lawson's hands these dangerous, even feared, substances are transmuted alchemically into the healing balms of the goddess

Rick Stein's Seafood
Joy McKenzie, Janet Reger
... a technical manual and an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of recipes; and the tone throughout is correspondingly sober and professional

Gary Rhodes Cookery Year: Spring into Summer
Gary Rhodes
... flounder, lamb and asparagus in spring; beetroot, broad beans and soft fruit in summer. Rhodes is first and foremost a restaurant chef, which, as he says, means that he is accustomed to an unlimited supply of fresh food from around the world all through the year: returning to the real world seems to have been a bit of a revelation.