Top ten cookery books

Does the prospect of the cookery section in Waterstones make you rub your hands with glee or retreat in panic to your local takeaway? Either way, we’ve done the hard work so you don’t have to and put together a rundown of the best cookbooks available.

If you’re a die-hard carnivore, why not expand your repertoire with Tim Wilson and Fran Warde’s Ginger Pig Meat Book or Gabriel Rucker’s Le Pigeon: Cooking at the Dirtybird. There’s plenty for vegetarians too, with David Frenkiel and Luise Vindahl’s The Green Kitchen, and Florence Knight’s One Cook and Her Cupboard is our pick for the cash-strapped London renter.

Whether your soufflés are good enough to earn you the title of Masterchef champion or your best efforts inevitably all turn into a Bridget Jones-style blue soup, there’s a cookbook for you. Here are ten of the best.