Advantages: A book of sumptuous recipes many of which are used in Rhodes' own restaurants. Disadvantages: Recipes are generally for more people than you find in the average family.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Gary Rhodes right from his first series for the BBC back in 1994. No, it wasn’t the spiky hair (which I hated) or the puppyish charm (which grated) it was the fact that it did seem that the man could actually cook and his love of the food shone through in everything that he prepared.
It didn’t even worry me that he’s thin when no chef has the right to be thin. He’s a cook; it’s what his life is about, whether he’s ... ...books. They are all part of a seamless whole. Go into the kitchens of his brasseries and you could well find that the chefs are working from photocopied pages from my latest find: his “New British Classics”.
First published in 1999 “New British Classics” is not just a cook book; it’s a work of scholarship too. Gary Rhodes looks at the background to the food we eat, how it has evolved over time and how traditions such as Sunday lunch have affected ...
SueMagee 21.01.2003 (06.04.2003)
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