This is a brilliant 'go to' book for any aspiring cook, with straightforward advice on cooking simple food. It no longer wears its cover on my bookshelf as it has been well loved over the years and is my substitute for learning simple recipes from my parents (having become a committed vegan as a teenager.) Now I am a vegetarian with a young family and use this book for baking cakes and for advice on how to avoid basic mistakes in cooking. Delia can occasionally be slightly long winded in her method so a highlighter pen is my top tip...