Even with the vast number of recipes available on the internet these days, there’s nothing quite like leafing through a beautiful book full of recipes. It’s a medium that’s stronger than ever before, with cookbooks topping bestseller charts throughout the year. If you’re anything like us then you’ll have shelves upon shelves of them in your home – some kept in pristine condition, others earmarked, stained and scrawled over after years of use.
It’s this national love for cookbooks that has prompted us to start our very own cookbook club. Each month we’ll select a cookbook that we think stands out from the rest and ask you, the Great British Chefs community, to cook a recipe from it. We’ll publish a small selection of recipes on our site so, even if you don’t already have the book, you can still get involved and see how your cooking compares to everyone else’s. Apply to join the Facebook group here and take a look at this month's book (and recipes) below. We've also included the winning post from last month's book, as well as some of our other favourite entries.
While we all can't wait to say goodbye to the trials and tribulations of 2020, it seems like the first few months of 2021 at the very least will continue to upset the usual flow of normal life. So for January we're taking a look back at all the books we've featured over the years and giving everyone an excuse to open the tomes they've fallen in love with the most. Here's a list of all the books we've featured to date:
Mid Feb - mid March 2018 - Hong Kong Diner - Jeremy Pang
Mid March - mid April 2018 - New Classics - Marcus Wareing
Mid April - mid May 2018 - Planted - Chantelle Nicholson
Mid May - end
June 2018 - Little Viet Kitchen - Pham Thuy Diem
July 2018 - Eating Well Everyday - Peter Gordon
August 2018 - Happy Food - Bettina Campolucci Bordi
September 2018 - Great British Chefs Cookbook
October 2018 - Simple - Yotam Ottolenghi
November 2018 - 80 Cakes From Around the World - Claire Clark
December 2018 - Scandinavian Baking - Trine Hahnemann
January 2019 - Andina - Martin Morales
February 2019 - Asma’s Indian Kitchen - Asma Khan
March 2019 - Crumb - Richard Bertinet
April 2019 - Casablanca - Nargisse Benkabbou
May 2019 - Bazaar - Sabrina Ghayour
June 2019 - Moorish - Ben Tish
July 2019 - Island Kitchen - Selina Periampillai
August 2019 - Charred - Genevieve Taylor
September 2019 - Mandalay - MiMi Aye
October 2019 - Salt and Time - Alissa Timoshkina
November 2019 - The Book of St.John - Fergus Henderson + Trevor Gulliver
December 2019 - Adventures with Chocolate - Paul A Young
January 2020 - Wok On - Ching He Huang
February 2020 - Fire Islands - Eleanor Ford
March 2020 - Veneto - Valeria Necchio
April - June 2020 - Freestyle!
July 2020 – Falastin – Sami Tamimi
August 2020 – Cook For Charity
September 2020 – Vegetables – Great British Chefs
October 2020 – Under the Olive Tree – Eirini Tzortzoglou
November 2020 – Masala – Mallika Basu
December 2020 – The Pie Room – Calum Franklin
Last month you dusted countless work surfaces with flour and flexed your pastry skills with Calum Franklin's amazing book The Pie Room. Congratulations to Stuart Cooper who took the top spot this month – he wins a prize! Take a look at his dish and all the other honourable mentions below.
Make sure you post photos along with commentary of the dishes you cook from any of the previous booksin our Facebook group to be in with the chance of winning.