We've had a great selection of cookery writers choosing their favourite cookbooks for us on the Five Books site, including Ruth Reichl, Nigel Slater, Ruth Rogers, Yotam Ottolenghi and Madhur Jeffrey. Have a look at all their cookbook choices on one page here.
A few highlights:
1. A book that came up again and again (chosen no less than 3 times): Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Italian Cooking
2. Was Nigella Lawson's best cookbook her first?
3. I can't vouch for the outcome of the recipes, but here's a book that's extremely tempting to busy people.
4. The book I intend to buy next, because I haven't got it and Nigel Slater is one of my favourite cookery writers.
I have to confess I'm a little disappointed that no one we have asked to select their favourite cookbooks has yet picked one of my own favourites, Katie Stewart's Times Cookery Book, or what I consider The-Most-Useful-Cookery-Book-Ever. Fortunately, Diane Seed, the author of the latter, has at least done an interview herself for us, on Mediterranean Cooking.
