River Cottage Cook Book
The first cook book that opened my eyes to real food and cooking.
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Gill Meller
Chef
https://www.gillmeller.comGill Meller is a chef, food writer, author, food stylist and cookery teacher.
He has been part of the River Cottage team for 11 years, working closely with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Gill appears regularly on the popular channel 4 series, cooking alongside Hugh, produces recipe videos for The River Cottage food tube channel and teaches at the River Cottage Cookery School. He has contributed to many of the River Cottage cookbooks and has written and contributed to The Guardian, Waitrose Food, Delicious, and BBC Countryfile magazine and Country Living to name but a few.
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Gill's favorite cookbooks
Real Cooking
For its honesty.
Nose to Tail Eating
Incredibly inspiring.
The Cookery Year
Pure class, my mum gave me her copy which fell apart so I bought another.
Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery
Because it makes me want to be French.
Bread Matters
All I need to know.
The River Café Cookbook
Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray
I bought this book for my wife 1 day before she gave birth to our first daughter. Bad move, good book though.
Jacques Pépin, Charmaine Solomon, Beatriz Fernandez, Afnan Rashid Al-Zayani, Esther B. Aresty, Miriam Ungerer, William Kitchiner, Maggie Green, Austin de Croze, Luigi Carnacina, Good Housekeeping Institute, An Old Lady Resident, Édouard Nignon and Henri-Paul Pellaprat
For recipes like curing bacon, rook pie, mock goose (cow heart) and bitter rowan jelly.
Moro: The Cookbook
When this came out it felt like a very genuine honest piece of work from a husband and wife.
Roast Chicken & Other Stories
Unique and inspirational for everyone who loves real food.
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