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Our pick of the best French cookbooks

Learn how to recreate one of the world’s most respected cuisines at home with our pick of the best French cookbooks from trusted experts.

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5 of the best cookbooks for kids

Get your kids excited about cooking with one of these 5 cookbooks. Between them, they cover quick and easy midweek meals, to lunchbox ideas, to fun, rainy day bakes. Your budding chefs will be spoiled for choice.

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Cookbooks for beginners

From one roasting tin dishes to recipes from Jamie Oliver using only 5 ingredients, these are the best cookbooks to buy beginners this Christmas.

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Our favourite East and Southeast Asian cookbooks

The vast and diverse region of East and Southeast Asia is home to some of the world’s most revered cuisines, from Chinese to Malaysian, Thai to Japanese. In this collection, we’ve rounded up some of our favourite East and Southeast Asian cookbooks, so you can master a mohinga, recreate your favourite ramen, or level up your laksa skills at home.

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The best plant-based cookbooks

Whip up quick midweek vegan meals, learn how to layer and build flavour like a pro, get to grips with seasonality, understand the real science behind plant-based eating, or simply cook flavour-packed meals that will quickly become firm favourites, with this collection of plant-based cookbooks.

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Best cookbooks for Chinese food

Recreate the diverse dishes of China in your own home with these cookbooks from the UK’s best Chinese chefs, cooks and food writers.

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The best Indian cookbooks

Here at The Happy Foodie, there’s nothing we love more than a really great curry. Here we pick out some of our favourite Indian cookbooks and some of our most-loved recipes.

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The Middle Eastern cookbooks you need on your bookshelf

Bring the flavours of the Middle East into your own home with the best Middle Eastern cookbooks from our favourite authors, including Claudia Roden, Ottolenghi and Tony Kitous.

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The family cookbooks you’ll want to cook from every day

Running out of midweek dinner inspiration? Need more help with meal planning? On the lookout for failsafe recipes to please both kids and adults? These family cookbooks show how easy it is to put food on the table quickly, simply, cheaply, while never compromising on flavour.

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10 vegan cookbooks for beginners

Inspired to cook more vegan this year? If you’re rehauling how you eat but you don’t know where to start, these cookbooks will teach you how to do it.

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6 slow cooker recipe books

Slow cookers lend a helping hand in the kitchen, doing most of the hard work for you. Here are the best slow cooker cookbooks to get you started. 

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Christmas 2023 Gift Guide: Books for serious cooks

Whether they love to recreate the food of their favourite restaurants at home, explore new cuisines, delve into the history of food or even if they’re the cook that already has every book, this gift guide features our pick of the best books to buy the expert cook in your life this Christmas.

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