Tom’s food books of the year
If there’s ever been a year to appreciate a glut of food titles, it’s 2020. It was difficult whittling down to a shortlist of just eight . Good recipes are essential, but so is good writing, and a distinctive voice. I want a book I’ll return to until the spine is creaking and pages splattered with oil.
Nigella Lawson’s Cook, Eat, Repeat is intensely personal, gloriously readable and lyrically written. It’s festooned with Post-It notes, thanks to endless recipes I want to cook. Who could resist chapters such as ‘A is for Anchovy’. My book of the year.