Elizabeth David French Provincial Cooking (1960) Through her articles and books, David ushered in a new era of home cooking in the UK, bringing French, Italian and Mediterranean cuisine to dreary postwar British kitchens unused to fresh vegetables, pasta and olive oil.
Len Deighton's Action Cookbook (1965)
The writer whose thrillers helped launch a young Michael Caine's film career also made it acceptable, even sexy, for "real men" to step into the kitchen with his pictorial cookery column, which ran in the Observer for two years before being collected into a bestselling book.
Madhur Jaffrey Eastern Vegetarian Cooking (1981)
Following the success of her 1973 An Invitation to Indian Cooking, Jaffrey's 1981 tome launched a new wave of vegetarian cooking worldwide, revealing the lentil's full potential.
Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery (1984)
The man who sold a thousand woks, Hom's bestseller made Chinese cuisine a cook at home option, introducing specialist ingredients such as lemongrass to UK kitchens
Delia Smith's Christmas (1990)
Already a TV star, Smith's bestseller came to define the 1990s Christmas.
Nigella Lawson - How to Eat (1998)
The first book by Lawson, who became the figurehead for the "food porn" age. It featured time-saving tips, and showed us that food can be a pleasure to prepare as well as indulge in.
Jamie's Dinners (2004)
Stepping from his Naked Chef shadow, Jamie Oliver's fourth recipe book focused on real, affordable meals that could be prepared easily at home with high street ingredients, re-energising dinner as a family event.
Winner of the Observer Food Award's cookbook competition, worldwide bestseller Plenty, based on Ottolenghi's Guardian recipes column, has become a bible for the new vegetarian movement.
Richard Rogers
The Observer,
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