want to cook old style/unprocessed

msb5262

I would second the recommendation of Cook with Jamie by Jamie Oliver - it's full of basic recipes and teaches the main methods you need to know. Don't forget to get recipe books from the library first, then when you find the right one you can buy it, preferably second hand!

hotcookie101

thriftlady wrote: »

Appetite by Nigel Slater is what you want. It has precisely this type of recipe in. Not particularly cheap but worth it. Try and borrow it first from the library.

one of my bibles! such a good book, he writes so well another of my bibles is river cottage meat-makes you appreciate your food, and I have been a FR organic chicken &pig girl since worked on pig and poultry farms as a student, so I never ate it!

Nigel is THE best food writer though, just brilliant for inspiration, no slavishly following recipes....

misskool

You want THIS one

It describes the history, the different types of techniques and is just plain great.
Cooking is about knowing what each type of food will work with the type of cooking. If it's good enough for Heston, it's good enough for me