No glossy photos in this one, we told you it was a classic. ‘The most useful cookbook of all time’ reads the tagline of this 1999 classic, and we can’t help but agree. Unpretentious and ...

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we struck the balance between classic and modern. After all, a spag bol will never go out of fashion!” You Can Cook Everything is the kind of cookbook that bridges the gap between the familiar ...

Leaving home for the first time at age ... of your friends). From classic street food recipes to fragrant curries, Meera Sodha covers it all in her critically acclaimed cookbook Made in India.

Recipes are like magic potions. They promise transformations,’ says Bee Wilson in her introduction to Sylvia Plath’s Tomato Soup Cake (Faber, £12.99), a collection of classic authors’ recipes.

Once in a generation, a cookbook appears that aims to do more ... Other times, they are simply not needed, and classic is best – so I suppose by focusing on making each recipe the most tasty it could ...