Rebecca Seal

Food and drink writer and TV presenter

https://www.rebeccaseal.co.uk

Biography

Rebecca Seal is a food and drink writer and TV presenter. She has published two cookbooks with her photographic collaborator, Steven Joyce. The first was Istanbul - recipes from the heart of Turkey, and the second is The Islands of Greece - recipes from across the Greek seas. She is currently planning their next project. Rebecca is also resident food and drinks expert on Sunday Brunch, a weekly TV show on Channel 4, plus she has a bar and restaurant column every Friday in the Evening Standard and a breakfast recipe column every Saturday in the Guardian.

Moro: The Cookbook

Samantha Clark and Samuel Clark

The first of their delicious books, this is one I return to over and over again. My copy is filthy, splattered and sticky.

Forgotten Skills of Cooking: The Time-Honoured Ways are the Best

Darina Allen

A hugely comprehensive book, focusing on traditional skills and methods - a book to have on hand if you have a garden glut to preserve, need foolproof pastry, or want to try your hand at cooking game or wild foods.

Wahaca: Mexican Food at Home

Thomasina Miers

A gentle and slightly Anglicised introduction to the flavours and techniques of the Mexican kitchen.

Leiths How to Cook

Leiths School of Food and Wine

Another excellent standby book, for those moment when you need to make hollandaise or bisque. It's not the most beautiful book I own by a long stretch, but it's one of the most useful.

Perfect: 68 Essential Recipes for Every Cook's Repertoire

Felicity Cloake

I know she's a panel chair but I really do use this and her second book, Perfect Too, all the time. Many's the time I've stood, blow-drying a piece of pork for crackling, thinking of Felicity and how ridiculous she is making me look.

A Change of Appetite

Diana Henry

I've just started a year-long project where my partner and I cook from just one book for a whole week. This book was the first and every recipe was a delight.

Jerusalem

Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi

Choosing between Yotam's books is like trying to choose between children - I love them all. This one perhaps inches ahead because (as the author of books which aspire to this style) I love cookbooks which are firmly rooted in the places that their recipes evolved in.

The Ethicurean Cookbook

The Ethicurean

I'll admit that I don't cook from this that often, but it's so inspiring and so lovely to look at.

Honey & Co: Food from the Middle East

Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer

Left to my own devices, this book is full of the delicious flavours I naturally gravitate towards.

The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook

Deb Perelman

Long before everyone started making cauliflower 'rice', this book got me making pesto with cauliflower. It could be prettier - it's all shot on a black background - but it's full of great things to try, especially brunch-y, breakfast-y dishes.

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Radio 4 - does that count?!