Gizzi Erskine

Chef and food writer

This is the book that first got me into cookery in the early 80s. It was a series of collated magazine works, published in one volume in the 1970s by Marshall Cavendish. Supercook was way ahead of its time and always felt slightly special. Mum used to cook from it often. I used to leaf through and think everything always looked so aspirational. Carrier was a legend and his chilli con carne from this Supercook series is still the base for my own.