The Virtue Cookery Book by Irene Aldred is a delightful dose of nostalgia and a lovely gift for you or your favourite foodie. ‘To provide well-balanced, nourishing and sustaining meals that are interesting and inviting to the palate should be the goal of every cook’. This book has chapters on nutrition, the kitchen, its equipment, hors d'oeuvres soup, fish, meat, vegetables, etc.