Marisa Leaf

Founder and co-CEO of Hubbub

https://www.hubbub.co.uk

Biography

Marisa Leaf is Founder and co-CEO of Hubbub.co.uk, the online grocery service that delivers the very best food from small shops. Marisa started Hubbub.co.uk to make it as easy for people to buy from brilliant small food shops as it is to shop from the big supermarkets. In her previous career as a human rights barrister, she worked long hours and struggled to buy the quality of food she wanted to eat from the businesses she wanted to support. Hubbub.co.uk allows customers to stop compromising on convenience, quality or their values and order one easy delivery of the very best food from dozens of small shops, producers and markets stalls right to their doorstep. So they can stop making do and start eating the best food in town.

French Provincial Cooking

Elizabeth David

Beautifully written and evocative of France in the 1950s and 60s. We cook from this book all the time; daubes, coq au vin, leeks Provencale.

River Cottage Meat Book

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Lots of well-written, easy to follow, delicious recipes and great accompanying material on everything from provenance and seasonality to cooking times. Hugh's passage on the ethics of eating veal is especially eye opening.

River Cottage Fish Book

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Really well-written, simple recipes that turn out brilliantly and fascinating accompanying material on the different fish characteristics, sustainability and sourcing.

Every Grain of Rice

Fuchsia Dunlop

A gift from a dear friend, this book just has brilliant brilliant recipes. Makes it possible to recreate some of my favourite dishes at home.

The Greek Cook

Rena Salaman

A classic which is no longer in my possession and sadly out of print or I'd buy it again! Her fasolakia (Greek bean stew) is unbeatable.

The Book of Jewish Food

Claudia Roden

A gift, this book is as much social history as it is recipe book. Packed full of the classic Jewish Ashkenazi recipes that remind me of my grandparents' cooking, and have delighted in discovering many less familiar Sephardi dishes too.

Feast: Food that Celebrates Life

Nigella Lawson

Always a brilliant source of inspiration when I'm feeding a crowd, especially at Christmas time. I love the tone of Nigella's books; personal, relaxed intimate, never intimidating.

Bocca

Jacob Kenedy

Simple, well-chosen, beautifully photographed recipes.

Jerusalem

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

Fantastic recipes, accompanied by fascinating anecdotes for context.

The Kitchen Diaries

Nigel Slater

I love that it's organised by month; a great source of seasonal inspiration any time of year. Stand out dish: pork meatballs with lemon and anchovies.