Presents an observation of the British and their food, their cooking, their eating and how ... more
they behave in restaurants, with chapters on - amongst other things - dinner parties, funeral teas, Indian restaurants, dieting and eating whilst under the influence. This book highlights our idiosyncratic attitude towards the fine art of dining.
Advantages: Seasonal food at its best accompanied by beautiful photographs. Disadvantages: None that don't sound far too picky!
One of the many problems I have with supermarkets is that they try to persuade me that any fresh fruit and vegetable I want is available all year round. I can eat fresh raspberries in January, green beans in February, leeks in June, asparagus in October and strawberries for Christmas dinner. The problem is that they'll have been flown half way round the world and taste of little more than wasted money. What I needed was a book to flag up when food is at its peak and give me some hints as to how it can best be used.
NigelSlater is an obliging man. For more than a decade he's written a food column in The Observer. I've read him slavishly and he's had more influence on the way I buy and prepare food than anyone else. I think I've read just about everything he's written and when I thought of a book I needed he wrote "The Kitchen ...
Why on earth did I buy this book, I don?t really know. It could have been because in the back of my mind I had read an excellent review or two about the author in general, and combined with the fact that it was under offer as part of Ottaker?s 3 for 2 deal, it seemed too tempting by half NOT to pick up. So another misspent lunchtime, a purse a few £££ lighter once again; and I began to read NigelSlater?s TOAST.
Now, reading for sheer pleasure is something that I struggle with enormously at the moment having spent 3.5 years having to analyse every book or article that I ever read for my degree. But it was with considerable delight that I started to read this book, and chuckle out loud at some of the similarities regarding upbringing and food between the author and my own upbringing. In fact, even flicking to the front page ?Mother was ...
Advantages: Good instructions, great variety Disadvantages: Very fattening!
I have had this book for a couple of years and I have cooked quite a few of the recipes with great success.
NigelSlater's approach is to demistify cooking by cutting down on unnecessarily pretentious ingredients and methods, as wells as faddy diets and rules. One thing this is NOT is a healthy eating book. In fact, you have to be really careful - I'm almost certain that if you eat exclusively from these recipes for a month you will gain a stone. They all invariably involve cream, starchy carbs, and fatty meats, and more often than not a combination of the three. Something to watch out for is the portion sizes - I always tend to be overly generous and increase portions slightly when using other recipe books (eg, making a recipe for 3 for only 2 people), whereas with these books you can safely assume there is more than enough ...
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