From your interests in Animals, the "All Creatures Great And Small" series by James Herriot (memoirs of a 1930's-era British farm vet). "Heartwarming" they call it but uproariously funny while still sticking to your ribs.
From your cooking, if you want technical, try "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen" by Harold McGee, this book goes into the chemical composition of food and how cooking accomplishes what it does, with a lot of interesting history about the development of different foods and recipes from around the world.
For mystery novels, if you like intellectual puzzlers, go for Agatha Christie; and if you like English period pieces, go for Dorothy L. Sayers or Josephine Tey. Sayers is better .
For light fluffy humor, try P.G. Wodehouse for comedies; for outdoor humor columns, Patrick F. McManus.
For science, try Kip Thorne's work on black holes, or anything by the late Richard Feynman.
Political humor is covered by P.J. O'Rourke.
And of course, there's always Shakespeare.
Or you can just FReep.
Cheers! IS that enough for starters?
More than enough for starters, my head is spinning! I’m glad I made a profile page!