This page lists all the cookbooks on my shelf. There is a brief description of its content, how I feel about it and whether or not I have cooked anything from it. Having worked through my books it is surprising how many I have used rarely and more than I thought .... not at all!
The Cook Books
The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook by Paula H Deen
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We visited Savannah in Georgia many many years ago. It was a fantastic trip. The city is beautiful and we managed to walk everywhere, which seems to be rather unusual in my limited experience of the USA, where walking seems to be positively discouraged. Paula H. Deen had a very popular restaurant...
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Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cookbook
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This is the first Indian cookbook I ever bought. As a kid I hated indian food and my mum was quite an adventurous cook for the time and would cook us curry at home, but she would always have to take some of it out for me before adding the curry spices. My dislike for curry continued for several...
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Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery
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I discovered Ken Hom at the same time as Madhur Jaffrey and was going through my Asian cusine stage. It was the mid 1980's and I was living in London as a young girl in my twenties. I was intoxicated by Chinatown, having grown up in Lincolnshire I had never seen anything like it before. It was...
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Madhur Jaffrey's Far Eastern Cookery
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I have had this cook book for many years and bought it after the success of her Indian Cookbook which I thought of as my Indian bible. This is yet another book which accompanied a BBC TV series and this is a fabulous way to inspire us budding home cooks into trying the taste of something new and...
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Cooking the Mexican Way by Lourdes Nichols
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I really enjoy Mexican food and discovered it shortly after I left home in the early 1980s. There was a really cool restaurant in Cobham (as I recall) which was a Tex Mex style where we would go from work and drink cocktails, eat fajitas and thnk we were really cool. If we ignored the fashion of...
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The Cooking of Normandy by Jane Grigson
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I picked up both this cookbook and the following (The Cooking of Burgundy and the Lyonnais) in the 1990's at the same time as the Sainsbury's Mexican Cookbook. I have to confess that they have spent most of their time sitting idly on my shelf. I am not sure why and am at a loss to explain myself...
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The Cooking of Burgundy and the Lyonnais by Anne Willan
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I picked up both this cookbook and the previous (The Cooking of Normandy) in the 1990's at the same time as the Sainsbury's Mexican Cookbook. I have to confess that they have spent most of their time sitting idly on my shelf. I am not sure why and am at a loss to explain myself as I like French...
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The Taste of Japan by Lesley Downer
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I am really interested in Japan, both the food and the culture. I would love to visit there one day and imagine it would be a fantastic experience to immerse myself into a really different culture for a few weeks. I have been to a couple of Japanese restaurants and like Sushi which is surprising...
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Step by Step Mexican Cooking by Rosemary Wadey
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Another cheap and cheerful book which has been simply illustrated for Mexican cooking at home. One of my favourite Mexican recipes comes from this book and is the Enchilada layers on Page 51. The recipe is simple, you just layer flour tortillas with a chicken filling, tomato sauce and cheese and...
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Madhur Jaffrey Indian Recipies
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Yet another Madhur Jaffrey cookbook purchased as a follow up to her Indian Cookbook which is my Indian cooking bible. I purchased it through a book club, as I recall, quite cheaply alongside an Antonio Carluccio book from the same book series. I always resort to familiarity though and when we...
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