Filled with humour and almost real-time practical advice about the weekly price movements of supermarket food, it is a plain-speaking, practical austerity cookery guide – quite literally how to feed yourself and your toddler on £10 a week, in ways that are healthy, tasty and, importantly (to relieve the tedium of baked beans), varied.
More than 150 varieties grown in the traditional manner, with cookery demonstrations, guided tours, growing tips and juicy tastings.
Katharine Whitehorn's bestselling guide to cookery without a kitchen, Cooking in a Bedsitter (1961), is about to return in a Radio 4 comedy drama starring Beattie Edmondson as a lonely girl in London rescued by cunning recipes and a young Indian medical student who lives across the landing, played by Nikesh Patel.
A Taste of Asia weekend, which includes two nights' B&B accommodation, a guided tour, cookery demonstration, bus tour, and discounts at selected Asian restaurants, costs £175 per couple.
"Those traditional cooks knew what they were doing," said Bruce Aidells, the meat expert, who is revising his classic guide to meat cookery to reflect modern ingredients.
Champignons à la crème has magical powers, Jane Grigson intimates in her invaluable guide to fungi cookery, "The Mushroom Feast," published in 1975.
But instead of turning to the Prozac, she seized upon cookery writer Julia Childs as her guide back to the brighter shores of life.
It would be hard for me to choose between Ada Boni's "Italian Regional Cooking" and Auguste Escoffier's "The Escoffier Cookbook and Guide to the Fine Art of Cookery," as both have been equally influential for different reasons.
A search by the BBC for other apps made by the same developers revealed dozens more apps, including video games, a psychology guide, wedding planning software and cookery tips - all of which have now been blocked.
In the later chapters, Hancock includes a rough guide to present-day Romani life, language, cookery and customs.
During the journey, I had scoured travel guides and brochures offering bungee jumping, trekking, shopping, fishing, cookery lessons, health spas and monasteries.
