Secondhand Cookbook Bargain Book Box SP4182

Secondhand Cookbook Bargain Book Box SP4182

Twelve TV-chef cookbooks, all hardback: Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant Cookbook, Nigella twice, Paul Hollywood twice, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall twice, Gordon Ramsay’s World Kitchen, the Bake Off Big Book of Baking, Nigel Slater’s Real Food, DK cake decorating and a Curry book from David Thompson, Sri Owen and friends. British kitchen royalty in one go.

1. The Seafood Restaurant Cookbook — Rick & Jill Stein — The Padstow restaurant’s recipes and the stories behind them, from the man who made British fish cooking fashionable. Fish pie, grilled lobster, and his cure for mackerel.
2. The Great British Bake Off: Big Book of Baking — Linda Collister — 120 recipes from the tent, with Mary Berry’s and Paul Hollywood’s own in it. The one with Mel and Sue on the cover.
3. Paul Hollywood’s British Baking — Paul Hollywood — Cornish pasties, Bakewell tarts, Eccles cakes and Welsh cakes, region by region, with the bread he’s famous for.
4. Nigella Express — Nigella Lawson — Good food fast, from the BBC series: the chocolate pear pudding, the mustard pork chops, the instant Mexican. Her most-used book.
5. Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds — Paul Hollywood — A hundred pies and puddings from the BBC series, pork pie to steamed syrup sponge. The pastry chapters are the point.
6. Step-by-Step Cake Decorating — Karen Sullivan — DK’s photographed guide to fondant, piping, sugar flowers and themed cakes. For the parent making the birthday cake.
7. The River Cottage Cookbook — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall — The original: the smallholding, the pigs, the vegetable garden and what to do with all of it. Glenfiddich Trophy 2002, and the book that started the whole movement.
8. Curry: Fragrant Dishes from India, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia — David Thompson, Sri Owen, Das Sreedharan, Vivek Singh and others — Six experts, one country each, in a lime-green hardback. Thompson’s Thai section alone is worth it.
9. River Cottage: Love Your Leftovers — Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall — Recipes for the resourceful cook, from bubble and squeak upward. The practical Hugh.
10. How to Be a Domestic Goddess — Nigella Lawson — Baking and the art of comfort cooking: the chocolate cloud cake, the clementine cake, the muffins. The book that put Nigella on the map in 2000.
11. Gordon Ramsay’s World Kitchen — Gordon Ramsay — Recipes from The F Word, country by country. Ramsay before he shouted for a living.
12. Real Food — Nigel Slater — Chips, sausages, chicken, chocolate and garlic: the six chapters of the book that said comfort food was serious. Glenfiddich Award winner.