Take a moment to savour our fresh curation of cookbooks – a round-up of 2023’s gourmet greats. It’s a truly global mix, serving up recipes from all corners of the earth… perfect fodder for worldly tastemakers and first-time foodies alike. Now tuck in!

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Cooking The Books

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Julius Roberts The Farm Table £27.00 First-generation farmer and chef Julius Roberts shares honest tales of farming life and easy, thoughtful dishes to reconnect us to nature and the seasons. Making the most of simple ingredients, this is food to comfort and inspire. A few good things on a plate, assembled with joy and ease. Beginning in winter, recipes include: an elegant, fuss-free dinner of roast pumpkin, mozzarella, hazelnuts and sage, and a hearty sausage stew; in spring baked fish with herbs and asparagus, chicken roasted over lemon, fennel and potatoes, and a lamb stew with pearl barley; summer brings courgette pasta, a ratatouille galette, and a steamed apricot sponge; finally autumn arrives with smoked haddock and leek rarebit and pan-fried trout with mash and spinach sauce.

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'A gorgeous and enticing marriage of styles and flavours that is uniquely Ravinder's.' ― Claudia Roden

Comfort and Joy: Irresistible pleasures from a vegetarian kitchen

Anything You Can Cook, I Can Cook Vegan is a guide to truly creative plant-based cooking with zero sacrifices. With over 100 innovative recipes, along with tips, techniques and ingredient guides, this book will teach you how to feel more confident than ever in a plant-based kitchen.

Anything you can cook, I can cook vegan

Both exquisite recipe guide and evocative travelogue of Florence, this sumptuous cookbook from the celebrated chef and winner of the inaugural Waterstones Book of the Year Polpo makes a ravishing adornment to any kitchen bookshelf.

Brutto: A simple Florentine cookbook

Amy Newsome is a cook, gardener and beekeeper – and this is her homage to honey and its deliciously distinct varietals from around the globe. Marvel at the floral intricacies of honey’s terroir and all its wonderful flavours, before getting stuck in with 80 sweet and savoury recipes that celebrate the magic of cooking with honey; from honey ferments, fancy fritto misto and Honeyed Chipotle Lamb Tacos, to Saffron & Apricot Honey Buns, Eucalyptus Honey Granita and a Bergamot Bee's Knees to wash everything down.

Honey: recipes from a beekeeper's kitchen

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Featuring family-friendly dishes and stunning photography THE TUCCI TABLE will captivate food lovers' imaginations with recipes from Stanley's traditional Italian roots as well as those of his British wife, Felicity Blunt. Each dish is introduced by Stanley and he offers an insight into why each recipe is so special to his family. Recipes include Pasta Al Forno, Roasted Sea bass, Pan Seared Venison and British classics such as Shepherd's Pie and Sausage Rolls.

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Atelier September: A place for daytime cooking is the first cookbook dedicated to the renowned Copenhagen restaurant, featuring recipes from owner Frederik Bille Brahe, who grants exclusive access to Atelier September’s most iconic dishes. Eighty-six recipes offer mostly vegetarian takes on breakfast, lunch, sweets, and A.S staples, including the ‘Avocado mad’, all with a focus on fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Atelier September: A place for daytime cooking

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The first cookbook from London’s cult favorite restaurant BAO offers a taste of Taiwanese food culture with 100 signature recipes for steamed buns, noodles, xiao chi, fried chicken, and more. Authors: Shing Tat Chung, Wai Ting Chung, Erchen Chang

The new collection of simple, delicious, crowd-pleasing recipes from the bestselling Middle-Eastern chef.Over 100 fabulously flavourful recipes with a Middle-Eastern twist.

Flavour: Over 100 fabulously flavourful recipes with a Middle-Eastern twist

A feast of recipes that bring elevated pub food into the home kitchen . . . Tom Kerridge has gone back to his heartland with over 100 recipes that celebrate modern British cooking

Pub Kitchen: The ultimate modern British food bible

Mob are back with their much-anticipated simplest cookbook yet: ultra-tasty recipes made with six affordable ingredients, without ever compromising on flavour or originality.Find food for every craving with 115 new recipes, including:Chorizo Mac 'n' Manchego,Crispy Chilli Cauliflower,All-the-Onions SmashburgerHarissa Sausage Orzotto.Finishing off with Sweet Things, such as Negroni Jelly, Tangerine Tiramisu and White Chocolate Tahini Cheesecake.

Tasty 6 ingredient meals

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This book is the story of 20 years of cooking, love, friendship, and community told through food, with each recipe taking a particular moment in time as its inspiration. Chapters include: Brunch, Soups, Snacks, Salads, Vegetables, Pasta, Meat/Fish, and Desserts, along with dozens of ‘building block’ recipes and ‘classic’ signature dishes.

The Lula Cafe cookbook: collected recipes and stories

The Pasta Man is back, and this time he's going BIGGER and BETTER. In Pasta Masterclass, Instagram-sensation Mateo Zielonka reveals how you too can make his eye-catching, delicious creations. With “how to” sections guiding you through every shape, including recipes for his famous coloured doughs, step-by-step photos and QR codes linking to videos on every pasta shape included in the book, he then offers over 40 delicious recipes in which to fill or coat your creations.

Pasta Masterclass: recipes for spectacular pasta doughs, shapes, fillings and sauces

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A love letter to one of humanity’s most ancient flavourings, Sea Saltshows how to really master seasoning your food - from making sweet tomatoes sing or turning chocolate torte even more chocolatey with a sprinkle of salt.

Sea Salt: A perfectly seasoned cookbook

From critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning author, Diana Henry, a new edition of the hidden gem at the heart of her cookbook repertoire. An irresistible collection of cold-weather recipes that celebrate the unique pleasures of autumn and winter, featuring seven new recipes and a foreword by Nigel Slater.

Roast figs, sugar snow: food to warm the soul

A playful and accessible guide to fermenting at home. James Read is on a mission to smuggle bacteria into our kitchens. In Of Cabbages & Kimchi, he takes the ten greatest 'living' ferments - fermented foods that are neither cooked nor pasteurized - and places them under the microscope, before cooking with them in all their delicious versatility.

Of cabbages and kimchi: A practical guide to the world of fermented food

The Pepperpot Diaries is Andi Oliver's long-awaited first cookbook. Showcasing both traditional and new recipes, cherished ingredients and vibrant flavours from across the Caribbean, let Andi Oliver take you on an exploration of identity and heritage as she shows you how to create simple yet sensational dishes that will bring the unbeatable flavours of Caribbean cooking to your table.

The Pepperpot Diaries: stories from my Caribbean table

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When Iranian writer and food photographer Saghar Setareh moved to Italy at the age of 22, she was enchanted by the rich food culture of her adopted country, and this inspired a curiosity in the cuisine of her homeland and the surrounding countries of the Levant and Eastern Mediterranean. Pomegranates & Artichokes is the story of Saghar's own culinary journey from Iran to Italy, in which she describes the many parallels that link Middle Eastern and Mediterranean food cultures, and shows how ingredients and recipes - unconstrained by borders - are shared and transformed through the immigrant experience.

Pomegranates & Artichokes: recipes and memories of a journey from Iran to Italy

'Nadiya dishes up easy but delicious meals. All the recipes use the same eight spices, making cooking highly flavoured dishes a doddle. Its also easier on the pocket during the cost of living crisis' DAILY EXPRESSWhen it comes to spice Nadiya's family cooking is never complicated and always delicious. Now Nadiya wants to share with you how to use the 8 readily available spices she uses at home daily to cook her most-loved meals. The same spices that her Mum uses and her Nani used before her!

Nadiya’s simple spices

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Maria Bradford’s recipes, inspired by her grandmother’s cooking, seek to recreate the traditional meals of Maria’s childhood, introducing delicious Afro-fusion dishes and flavours. Characterised by key ingredients including tamarind, beans, sesame seeds, mango, chilli and pineapple, in Maria's hands these ingredients become something truly special. Moreover, she tells the story of the cuisine and the people, shedding light on everyday life through exclusive location photography.

Sweet Salone: recipes from the heart of Sierra Leone

The Korean Cookbook celebrates traditional regional dishes and everyday food found in home kitchens from Seoul to Jeju Island. This stunning collection features more than 350 recipes organized into traditional Korean meals, including pantry staples, fermented foods, rice, vegetable dishes, raw food, noodles, stir-fries, grilled meats, soups, stews, hotpots, noodles, dumplings, porridges, rice cakes, and desserts.

The Korean cookbook

Inspired by the dishes that Si and Dave loved to eat growing up and that they cook with their families now, this is comfort food at its best. Recipes that are guaranteed to deliver on flavour, even when you're short on time, all made with readily available and affordable ingredients. Real, everyday food to enjoy and share.

Ultimate Comfort Food: The perfect Christmas gift for every food lover in your family

Rice Table | bap sang is a collection of 80 recipes showcasing modern, Korean home cooking. A Korean living in the UK, Su Scott was thrown into a crisis of identity when motherhood dawned, one which she only found her way out of by cooking the dishes of her Korean childhood, seeking out the flavours and textures of memories that she hopes to pass on to her daughter.

Rice table: Korean recipes and stories to feed the soul

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Featuring recipes from the hit Channel 4 show Jamie Cooks the Mediterranean, this cookbook has everything people loved about the first '5 Ingredients' book, but with the added va-va-voom of basing it on Jamie's lifelong travels around the Med.

5 Ingredients Mediterranean cookbook

Table for Two is food writer Bre Graham's first cookbook, showcasing recipes to cook for the people you love. Food to make your heart beat faster, things to risk looking silly eating like spaghetti twirled straight from your fork onto your white t-shirt, super quick to whip up things, and alcohol-infused everything. These dishes are for the days when you want to set the table for two and focus on someone special.