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‘Food waste is quite a new phenomenon, and one I don’t experience,’ says cookery writer Vicky Bhogal. ‘To me it’s because people have lost the ability to truly cook, not just slavishly follow celebrity dinner party recipes.’ Her book, Cooking like Mummyji, tackles the latter by teaching people how to actually cook from scratch and focuses on the Punjabi food she grew up with that uses very few, inexpensive ingredients. Think dahls, marinades, stuffed flatbreads and all-in-one rice pilaus – all of which reduce food waste in their simplicity. ❒ £25, amazon.co.uk