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Can anybody recommend a cookery book for my son?

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  • kazmeister
    kazmeister Posts: 3,359 Forumite
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    Jamie's minstry of food was written for people who've never cooked and it is a good book, but I also recommend Easy Cook magazine
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  • hamish222
    hamish222 Posts: 716 Forumite
    kazmeister wrote: »
    Jamie's minstry of food was written for people who've never cooked and it is a good book, but I also recommend Easy Cook magazine

    Was just about to suggest both of these. Easy to read for people who havn't cooked before.
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  • Penelope_Penguin
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    angel81uk wrote: »
    Can anyone recommend some good, basic books (preferably with step by step type photos)? I think we're going to need to go as basic as possible here

    I hope your mum's better very soon :A

    I'd recommend Delia's Complete Cookery Course - the earlier version of that taught me to cook over 25 years ago, and I'm still using it for basics as well as more adventurous things ;)

    We have an exisitng thread for cookery book recommendations for male beginners, so I'll merge this thread to that one :D

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  • angel81uk
    angel81uk Posts: 429 Forumite
    Thank you for all your recommendations. I ended up buying Delias How To Cook books 1-3 as they appeared to have the most illustrations. I know Mum already has a couple of Delia books that she likes so I'm hoping there will be some recipes she can use too once she's well enough.
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