Good question. I have a bunch of books which are more for the restaurant history and philosophy than their recipes. Favourites are The Book of St John, FREA (a zero waste restaurant and bakery in my neighborhood which riffs off Silo - formally of Brighton now Hackney) and Black Axe Mangel by Lee...
Antony Bourdain is one but I think my favourite would be Michel Roux Jr…..mainly because I witnessed my wife get a bit “hot under the collar” when she met him; I have teased her ever since.
I have actually been to Ramsay’s Royal Hospital Road restaurant myself, it was the first ever starred restaurant I went to and a gift for my 40th. Whilst I have always been a foodie type I’d never eaten at that level before and it was a total game changer for me; it opened a new world. I cannot...