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Jerusalem by Ottolenghi and Tamimi is excellent, as is the Polpo cookbook.
For classics, River Cafe or Moro are hard to beat.I contend Larousse is smug, blokey bookshelf willy-wave. It's like having a leather bound version of the encylopedia Brittanica ... useful once or twice a century when google is down, but about as inspiring as a packet of fish fingers. #couldntaffordLarousse
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It's always in the cheap book shops, I bought my very posh boxed version for ~£15... Don't use it much as I've gone Asian now... Western food is shit apart from BBQ... And Italian... And Spanish... And Greek... And Portuguese...
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i contend that the dudebro bbq scene is the worst thing to happen to cooking in recent times.
don't @ me.
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Anyone got any good recipe book suggestions? Due to the new bab we sort of missed out a few Christmas presents that we need to catch up on and bro-in-law is big into cooking as well so was thinking of getting him a new book.
I think he's got a couple of Ottlenghi books, and his wife just got him a book on stews and tagines so not too similar to those.
Adventurous is fine, he's not averse to spending 2 days in the kitchen prepping for one meal.