WELL SEASONED A delicious selection of classic cookbooks

Classic recipes republished for Christmas

Consider the Oyster by MFK Fisher (£9.99, Daunt Books) The celebrated American food writer and Bazaar contributor pays homage to the enigmatic mollusc in this enchanting classic.

How to Eat by Nigella Lawson (£14.99, Vintage Classics) Jeanette Winterson praises How to Eat’s ‘combinatory flair of the practical and the imaginative, the philosophical and the everyday’ in her introduction to the 20th-anniversary edition.

Elizabeth David’s Christmas (£14.99, Michael Joseph) A festive collection from another of Bazaar’s writers, whose 1950s recipe columns evoked the warmth of the Mediterranean in post-war Britain. helena lee