Books by Elizabeth David
“Elizabeth took a look at loaves and said, ‘All those times you thought you were eating traditional loaves, they were probably quite modern. There is a better way of doing it. There are better breads to be made.’ She was perhaps the most prominent champion for real bread in Britain during the depths of the white sliced years.” Read more...
The best books on Baking Bread
Chris Young, Cooks & Food Writer
” Lots of cookery books, I find, are concerned with all manner of measurements and making sauces very carefully in double saucepans – and all that kind of stuff. Elizabeth David never talks about that, she just talks about the basic things that you need to make things delicious.” Read more...
Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks
Clare Morpurgo, Children's Author
“Eating is fundamental to life and to some extent defines you. You don’t look good if you live off McDonald’s and Diet Coke.” Read more...
Helena Frith Powell, Journalist
Italian Food
by Elizabeth David
She loved to travel and live in other places, and she was a great writer. You can take any of Elizabeth David’s cookbooks to bed and read them as you would a novel.
“Elizabeth David’s recipes give you a sense of place: I feel as if I am in France with her.” Read more...
Nigel Slater, Cooks & Food Writer
Interviews where books by Elizabeth David were recommended
Best Cookbooks of All Time, recommended by Nigel Slater
Which is the one cookbook the cookery writer can’t do without? Who writes the best recipes? Who is the best writer? Who does he turn to for a breath of fresh air? Nigel Slater picks his all-time favourite cookbooks.
The best books on Food Writing, recommended by Giles Coren
The London Times award-winning food columnist takes an irreverent look at the world of food writing, from restaurant critics to celebrity chefs
The best books on Italian Food, recommended by Ruth Rogers
A culinary tour of Italian food, with co-founder of the acclaimed River Café restaurant Ruth Rogers. She tells us about the books that have inspired her, including the one she asks all her chefs to read!
Mary Berry recommends her Favourite Cookbooks
Mary Berry has written over 70 books—but what are the cookbooks she returns to, time and again? Here she shares her top five with us.
The best books on Glamour, recommended by Helena Frith Powell
The author of Two Lipsticks and a Lover explains what it takes to be glamorous. Relax, it’s not about being beautiful or perfect
Clare Morpurgo on Penguin Paperbacks
Penguin paperbacks were a publishing revolution: lightweight, affordable editions that brought high-quality fiction and non-fiction to all. Clare Morpurgo, daughter of the Penguin Books founder Allen Lane, discusses the five Penguins that she loved most as a young reader—and why it’s down to her that her father never published The Hobbit.
The best books on Favourite Cookbooks, recommended by Jojo Tulloh
The best cookbooks according to food editor of The Week. Raves especially about the Chez Panisse cookbooks. Says she’d like “it was my pleasure” carved on her gravestone
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The Handmade Loaf: The Book That Started a Baking Revolution
by Dan Lepard -
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Bread Matters: The State of Modern Bread and a Definitive Guide to Baking Your Own
by Andrew Whitley -
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English Bread and Yeast Cookery
by Elizabeth David -
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Modernist Bread
by Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco J. Migoya -
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The Staffordshire Oatcake: A History
by Pamela Sambrook
The best books on Baking Bread, recommended by Chris Young
The best books on Baking Bread, recommended by Chris Young
All you need to make bread is flour, water and salt. It’s knowledge, skill and time that turns those basic ingredients into the delicious staple we call bread. Chris Young, coordinator of the UK’s Real Bread Campaign and editor of True Loaf magazine, recommends the best books for baking bread—and explains why ‘real bread’ is the only bread we should be eating.
