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The best cookbooks for restaurant lovers

We’ve rounded up our favourite cookbooks from the UK’s best restaurants and Michelin-starred chefs for anyone wanting to recreate restaurant-style food at home. 

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Our top 12 Italian cookbooks

We’ve delved into our cookbook collection to bring you our top ten Italian cookbooks, each one brimming with recipes to take you one step closer to la dolce vita.

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3 fish and seafood cookbooks you need on your shelf

Love fish but not quite sure how to cook it properly? Fancy yourself a seafood pro but keen to expand your repertoire? These fish cookbooks will sort you out.

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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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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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10 easy vegan air fryer recipes

Discover delicious plant-based recipes for the air fryer, including easy mid-week dinners, choc chip and pistachio cookies, and loaded fries.

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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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