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Review Queen of Curry Madhur Jaffrey offers the definitive guide to this diverse cookery form. Not just Indian curries but South East Asian, African, West Indian and anglicised versions from the UK and USA. Curry's popularity is so great that it has crossed the globe, manifesting itself in every culture imaginable. Meat-based or vegetarian its range covers every taste and appetite from mild kormas, spicy madras' and the notoriously hot vindaloos. ...
...Beeton's curry sauce with tomato, Madhur offers a comprehensive range of delicious curries to cook in your own home. This is a culinary celebration of curry from one of the top Indian chefs today, lavishly illustrated, clearly explained and entertainingly written for a fascinating read. - Lucy Watson Product Description This is the most comprehensive book ever published on curries, written by Madhur Jaffrey, the world's bestselling Indian cookery ...

ishagarg 12.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible - Madhur Jaffrey

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Delia complicates my Christmas

Advantages: Every dish you could ever want to cook
Disadvantages: Probably a few you'll never want to cook

...blunder through it I bought Delia Smith's Christmas Recipe book. It's very distinctive as you can see from the picture above as they have made the book look like a Christmas present with a red bow around it and the gift tag is a picture of Delia. It's bright, inviting and would almost beg to be picked up from the shelf in a bookshop. I however bought mine from Amazon so I wasn't enticed by the picture at all but Delia was a name I knew and trusted. ...
...starts with an introduction from Delia and then swings straight into the book. You get a helpful list at the start of the book for all your Christmas essentials. Not that helpful if like me you want to delve in a pick out a recipe or two but a useful addition to ensure you haven't forgotten anything obvious - like the Turkey Foil!! The chapters are laid out as follows 1) All kinds of Christmas Cakes 2) Christmas Puddings and Mincemeat 3) Preserves, ...

couscous 06.11.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Delia Smith's Christmas - Delia Smith

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Slimmer,are you dreaming,my girls?

Advantages: a healthy way to lose weight
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...long-term method of weight control. I suggest that readers open mind and strict adherence to the book given the recommendations of experts. This method requires you to be hard work, and for those who long for people to combat obesity, as long as you persevere on the ultimate success will be a better body weight and maintain funding. ...

jessie5241 09.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of I Can Make You Thin - Paul McKenna

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The River Cottage Meat Book

Advantages: This book is the closest thing I have to a food bible.
Disadvantages: Not a quick reference cook book - but nor was it intended to be.

...to cooking meat. As the title may suggest, the book focuses purely on meat (of all kinds). What the book is really about is really about is where meat comes from, how it is raised, slaughtered and butchered. If that sounds a bit extreme then this really is the book for you. What people see in the supermarket is the end result. This book focuses on the fact that that piece of meat was once an animal. As such we should ensure that the meat we eat ...
...best possible quality. The stance this book takes has won the support of many vegetarians, not turning them to meat eaters but promoting everything that vegetarians stand for. Yes, this is a book full of meat recopies, but really it's much more than that. One word of advice. If you are not willing to spend a few pounds more on your meat, to ensure it has come from an ethical background, then this is not the book for you. Read it and you will be ...

steve_swinburne 18.10.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The River Cottage Meat Book - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

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The best £10 i have spent this year!

Advantages: Full of very good information
Disadvantages: none that i could see

...book "Grow Your Own Veg". Grow Your Own Veg was shown on BBC 2, and is part of the Gardener's World Series. The series follows Carol Klein on her mission to start growing vegetables in her garden, the series had some wonderful moments including Carol actually hand feeding a robin that has been nesting in her garden for some years. The series showed Carol right from the beginning, planning her vegetable garden, making the soil right for growing and ...
...you once you start to grow your own, you will hopefully never go to the supermarket for vegetables ever again. The book is a 224 page masterpiece in my eyes. There is a small introduction from Carol telling you the advantages of growing your own, and also advice on growing the whole year round. Imagine potatoes for the Christmas dinner taken from what you grown; trust me there is nothing better. Also if you have young children, get them involved ...

the_enlightened_one 02.03.2007 · Read full review
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