More cookbooks

If you like reading about food there are thousands of books to choose from.

Judy recommends:

How to cook without recipes - Glynn Christian

On Food and Cooking- Harold McGee (Science in the kitchen)
Appetite - Nigel Slater (irresistable food)
How to Eat - Nigella Lawson (more ideas than pictures)

Ottolenghi, The Cookbook Ottolenghi, The Cookbook-  (fresh and fabulous)
Patisserie - the Roux Brothers - The Roux Brothers  (translated by Kate Whiteman)

and two more serious ones:

Toast  - by Nigel Slater (a story of a boy's hunger)

Angela's Ashes  - by Frank McCourt (famine and families in Ireland)