If you don’t wish to eat out at the moment, you can continue to support restaurants as well as solve a last minute present problem. The cookery books listed here, all by chefs included in the 2020 edition of The Good Food Guide, are for sale via their websites.
Nathan Outlaw, Outlaws New Road, Cornwall
Capturing a Year at Restaurant Nathan Outlaw
£45; outlaws.co.uk
Paul Foster, Salt, Warwickshire
How to cook meat properly
Sat Bains, Restaurant Sat Bains, Nottingham
Too Many Chiefs Only One Indian
Asma Khan, Darjeeling Express, London
Asma’s Indian Kitchen
Ravinder Bhogal, Jikoni, London
Jikoni – proudly inauthentic recipes from an immigrant kitchen
£26; jikonilondon.com
Ben Crittenden, Stark, Kent
Stark
£30; starkfood.co.uk
Hawksmoor, London
Hawksmoor: Restaurants and Recipes
£30; thehawksmoor.com
Simon Bonwick, formerly at The Crown at Burchetts Green, Berkshire
Cooking in Pubs
£40; simonbonwickchef.com
Selin Kiazim, Oklava, London
Three: Acid, Texture, Contrast
£25; call 01256 302 699 to order and see The Good Food Guide Weekly for an exclusive reader offer
Dan Keeling and Mark Andrew, Noble Rot, London
The Noble Rot Book: Wine from Another Galaxy
£30; noblerot.com