Cooking with Fernet Branca - James Hamilton-Paterson

...cooking. Ah, at last, Cooking With Fernet Branca! When Marta invites Gerald for dinner he agrees to come (good manners!) but only to discourage her from intruding on his secluded life again, he thinks of a prezzie which surely won't make her want to see him again: Garlic and Fernet Branca Ice Cream. Ingredients: 15 large cloves of garlic, 150g granulated sugar, 4 tablespoons cold double cream, ¼ pint Fernet Branca; he abstains from adding a dash ...
...the other ingredients, 'Such excesses will be held in abeyance for use only when the situation has degenerated considerably.' Does he succeed? You'd like to know, would you? Gerald is a gifted cook and spends lot of time on his hobby although he cooks mainly only for himself; he's invented a new way of preparing food called 'sampering' (his surname is Samper), he's also very inventive when it comes to choosing and mixing exotic ingredients. How ...

MALU 14.12.2006 · Read full review
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I first came across this book during book club. It was in the first round of the Man Booker Prize a few years ago and our reading group had decided to read all the books nominated. I didn't pick this book - was given something else - but when the book was put back on the table I picked it up and found it highly enjoyable. Some of the recipes in this book that is anything but a cookbook, although it does contain some recipes of the rather unpalatable ...
...(made with cat), but his reasoning behind them and the way that the two main characters, Gerald and Marta, come across is enough to make you root for them both in their own separate yet connected lives. Pick up a copy of this book and sit down and read with a nice glass of wine (or two) and a classy box of chocs, you won't regret it. ...

Raye0274 15.03.2007 · Read full review
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