Do you have dozens of cookbooks you never use? Are you defeated by interminable lists of exotic ingredients, or downhearted because nothing you try ever quite looks like it does in the picture?
Will yet more lavishly-illustrated works by trendy chefs be waiting under your Christmas tree? Perhaps it's time you had a cookbook cull.
Food writer's Rose Prince and Christopher Hirst join Jenni to discuss what distinguishes the cookery books that stand the test of time.