Cooking with Fernet Branca - James Hamilton-Paterson > Reviews

Advantages: funny, highly entertaining, odd recipes
Disadvantages: none

...mainly for 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 ... Read review

Advantages: Comical, unusual
Disadvantages: None

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 ... Read review