Anna Thomas

Screenwriter, filmmaker and author

I had to include this old book in my list. In one sense I hardly use it now, but in another way it’s always with me: it was one of the first big, serious cookbooks I owned, when I was a poor college student and just teaching myself to cook. I learned so much from Robert Carrier. He was reliable. Years later, after I had written a successful cookbook myself, I was in London with my husband and we happened to go to Carrier’s for dinner (where we had a wonderful meal). It turned out to be the last night that it was open...

Patricia Michelson

Founder of La Fromagerie in London

The dinner party cookbook par excellence!

Henrietta Graham

Artist