The River Cottage Family Cookbook by Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall & Fizz Carr

Want to cook and eat healthily and have fun? Then this is the only cookery book you’ll ever need! Not just recipes but techniques, from basics such as rubbing in to scaling and filleting fish.

It is brilliantly written so that children can learn to cook from it, as well as adults do sophisticated dishes. It covers animal welfare and buying good food through to final presentation. Lavishly illustrated and full of the sheer joy of sharing good food. I just wish I’d read it earlier in my life! Do treat yourself.