A lucky dip of quirky picks, each recommended by a single contributor
Claudia Roden
Anthony Blake and Quentin Crewe
Roy Andries De Groot
Robert May
Apicius
Kit Chapman
F. Marian McNeill
Yan-Kit So
Ghillie Basan
Be-Ro Flour
Elena Molokhovets
Isabella Beeton
Phia Sing
Mary Taylor Simeti
Jean Troisgros and Pierre Troisgros
Peter Brears , Maggie Black , Gill Corbishley , Jane Renfrew and Jennifer Stead
Charlotte Jenkins
Carol Field
Louis-Eustache Audot
William Pokhlebkin
Betty Fussell
Ruth Gaskin
Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
Naomichi Ishige
Mary Norwak
Annette Yates
Joe Randall and Toni Tipton-Martin
James Trager
Barbara Ketcham Wheaton