#7favouritecookbooks

Ever since I taught myself to cook as a university student from Madhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery, cookbooks have been important to me. I have long been someone who read cookbooks for pleasure – happily poring through them at night in bed – and, of course, through my work as a food writer I have also written them, so understand how much work they take. In May 2019, prompted by my affection for cookbooks, I tweeted ‘I love cookbooks and I know I am not alone, so am starting #7favouritecookbooks’. The response was remarkable; I had struck a chord.