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Christmas with the Domestic Goddess

Advantages: Offers a wide-range of ideas for use all year round
Disadvantages: Expensive, and if you follow it to a tee, you'll have a very stressed and expensive Christmas

...delicious, whether Lawson is in them or not. At £25, I would not have bought this book, but was pleased to receive it as a gift. Regardless, whether you have a traditional Christmas or a Nigella Christmas, I would like to wish you all best wishes for the festive season. ...

kevindye 16.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Nigella Christmas - Nigella Lawson

Delia is the reincarnated Mrs Beeton

Advantages: Wonderful cookery course that can teach even a seasoned cook a trick or two
Disadvantages: Not enough on special dietary needs

...as it covers almost everything that you would ever need. There are various Delia books on Amazon (I have the Cheat book, which I recommend also) but this Complete Cookery Course is still selling, and the hardback copy is on there at £16.25. Well worth it!! ...

orlando 13.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Complete Illustrated Cookery Course - Delia Smith

Charlie Brooker's War

Advantages: Funny, entertaining, well-written
Disadvantages: Repetitive, occasionally meandering

In Dawn of the Dumb, Charlie Brooker makes it very clear that he is angry. About television, about celebrity culture, about politics, about your children and, frankly, about you. His anger is not remarkable in and of itself; every third blogger on the Internet is attempting to rail against the world for various reasons. Brooker's distinctive streak is that he is genuinely laugh out loud hilarious in the expression of his rage. Dawn of the ...
...rage and scorn at humanity into a single volume so trenchant that it must be kept open at all times. If its covers were to be closed too tightly, it could collapse under the weight of its own compressed wit and suck your bookshelves into a black hole of rude words and pithy observations about contestants on Big Brother and The Apprentice. Covering 2004 - 2007, the book moves in chronological order. That is the only order on display in the book, ...

Olly_Plimsoll 11.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dawn of the Dumb - Charlie Brooker

Don't know about 24 hours but pretty damn quick.

Advantages: Easy to Follow, Wide range of Recipes
Disadvantages: You want more, Some of the Dishes aren't Beginners level.

I am one of those people who have never cooked. I'll fix the Computers and paint a wall but not cook. This book was given to me when I moved away and I love it. For a beginners book, it is a bit overambitious. There is a list of 'Kitchen Essentials' in the front of which I own the top two; the rest of it is just a comic list of things I will never own. Also there are a number of dishes in there which I would not class as beginners dishes: Roast Dinners ...
...there are many dishes which are extremely tasty and easy to make. It is a real joy to cook from this book. There is an extremely good curry section all of which taste amazing. The recipe doesn't involve hundreds of unheard of ingredients as I know some cook books do and the instructions are well laid out and easy to follow. Most of the dishes in this book are the sort of things that are impossible to get wrong. Everything is delicious and it makes ...

DrJBox 09.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Jamie's Ministry of Food - Jamie Oliver

A change of lifestyle

Advantages: If adhered to strictly does give good weight loss
Disadvantages: Nasty taste in your mouth is only down side

I am forever a critic of diets as I feel that a lot of these are just fads and are not healthy to maintain for any length of time. I took this new diet on board after doing my homework and reading many articles both good and bad and decided that I would put this to the test. At first this is quite a strange diet and difficult to fit around a busy working schedule as everyone's staple food of cereal and sandwiches if a total no no! You start the ...
...a small quota of carbohydrates from your diet. What I have to say is that if you stick to this strictly you really do not feel at all hungry at any time if anything it slightly puts you off. After the first two weeks you can start introducing some carbs back in but very slowly. I have to say I lost over a stone within 4 weeks and up to yet (6 months down the line) I have kept this off. One thing that I had problems with was introducing the carbs ...

Blister123 09.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution: The No-hunger, Luxurious Weight Loss Plan That Really Works! - Robert C. Atkins