Welcome to the Great British Chefs Cookbook Club! Find out how it works, how to get involved and what prizes you can win.
Welcome to the Great British Chefs Cookbook Club! Find out how it works, how to get involved and what prizes you can win.
Even with the vast number of recipes available on the internet these days, there’s nothing quite like leafing through a beautiful book full of recipes. It’s a medium that’s stronger than ever before, with cookbooks topping bestseller charts throughout the year. If you’re anything like us then you’ll have shelves upon shelves of them in your home – some kept in pristine condition, others earmarked, stained and scrawled over after years of use.
It’s this national love for cookbooks that has prompted us to start our very own cookbook club. Each month we’ll select a cookbook that we think stands out from the rest and ask you, the Great British Chefs community, to cook a recipe from it. We’ll publish a small selection of recipes on our site so, even if you don’t already have the book, you can still get involved and see how your cooking compares to everyone else’s. Apply to join the Facebook group here and take a look at this month's book (and recipes) below. We've also included the winning post from last month's book, as well as some of our other favourite entries.
For April we'll be cooking from Shu Han Lee's Agak Agak. This Singaporean cookbook was listed as one of the five best food books of 2025 by The Guardian, who called its recipes 'simple yet superb'. The name comes from a Malay phrase meaning 'roughly' or 'approximately', and is associated with the sort of casual home cooking Shu Han Lee is celebrating in this book. Singapore is rightly known as one of the best places in the world to eat, and this book shows you how to bring some of the joys of hawker centres into your own kitchen. We hope you enjoy cooking from it!
In March, you cooked dishes from The Changing Tides by Roberta Hall McCarron! Huge congratulations to March's cookbook club winner Gill who takes home a prize. Take a look at Gill's entry below, as well as those from our runners up!
Make sure you post photos along with commentary of the dishes you cook this month in our Facebook group to be in with the chance of winning.