A cook book for students

Advantages: easy to read
Disadvantages: not appealing

...I was bought this when I went to university. My auntie bought it me thinking that it would suddenly turn me into the next Deliah Smith or something but it didn't really have this effect on me at all! I didn't really use it and it was a good job it was quite a cheap buy so I didn't feel guilty for the fact it sat on my book shelf, hidden by all the huge text books I had to buy! Who is it for? This book is really very obviously aimed at students as you can tell by the title; "The New Students' Cook Book". When I first saw it I presumed that a cook book for students would contain very quick and simple recipes. When I was a student I didnt have much time for cooking and if I did want to cook something instead of order the usual pizza I didn't want to spend hours reading a recipe or fiddling around in the kitchen. This, isn...

lorriellah 26.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of The New Students' Cook Book - Carolyn Humphries

Book with the Cook

Advantages: Good holiday company and very helpful
Disadvantages: None

...I must admit, I had never booked with Thomas Cook until a couple of years ago. Reason being is I had always been told they were expensive. It appears nowadays one holiday firm is the same as any other so it blows that theory clean out of the water. They are always very busy when I go in there so that too is a good sign! Recently I booked the holiday of a lifetime for my honeymoon. To make it a bit different, we wanted to spend a bit of time talking it through with someone, have it taylored for us and most of all, plan it properly. This is where the Thomas Cook service took over. We booked an appointment with their "long distance and faraway destination" specialist. This lady was very helpful and lead us off to a room downstairs to sit, drink coffee and deal with us on a 1 to 1 basis away from the masses. She was...

andycharger 23.02.2001 · Read review
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Review of Thomas Cook

Brilliant cook book for beginners

Advantages: Easy to follow, great recipes, not too many ingredients.
Disadvantages: None

...I really enjoyed this book, I never saw the TV series, but the idea of one of the best chef's in the country creating a book to help anyone cook using normal ingredients rather than some of the more expensive ones really appealed to me, so I bought the book, at the time I got it for £8 in Tesco's. It actually retails for £25 but you can generally buy it for £12.50 in most high street retailers. The idea of the book is that Jamie was disillusioned with people buying ready meals or take aways and wants to empower the nation to be able to cook filling healthy meals for the whole family, to tackle obesity and the unhealthy lifestyles we face. He wants everybody to pass on a recipe to a friend or family member and therefore develop a network where everyone in the country can cook at least one or two meals really well. Published...

paulie1975 24.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours - Jamie Oliver

Great book for people with varying cooking skills

Advantages: excellent pictures and instructions
Disadvantages: bit pricy at face value

...Review of Jamie Oliver - Ministry of Food Jamie Oliver is a cooking phenomenon who usually gets on my nerves, especially in the sainsburys adverts where I feel patronised by his "eat for a fiver" range, like I want/need to spend £140 a month on cooking food. Does he know there is a credit crunch on? However, personal differences aside I received his 'Ministry of Food - Anyone can learn to cook in 24 hours' book for christmas and was plesantly surprised with it. The book is well produced with high quality pictures throughout and well thought out sections. ***KEY FEATURES The start of the book has Jamie's speel with hopes of getting you to teach a recipe to someone (pledge) and the usual pictures and info about kitchen equipment to use. Then it moves onto the various chapters which covers just about every range of needs...

dtait07 30.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Jamie's Ministry of Food: Anyone Can Learn to Cook in 24 Hours - Jamie Oliver

Cook Bookery

Advantages: It's Delia!
Disadvantages: It's Delia.

...it?s best that people prepare their own. The truth is that I wouldn?t have had the first idea where to start were it not for books like ?Delia?s How to Cook?. Picture the scene if you will. Delia is deep in conversation with her priest. They muse upon the fact that young people have been seduced away from the delights of cooking with fresh ingredients by the easy availability of convenience foods. What was needed, it was agreed was a book (and naturally a television series and then another book and a television series. etc...) which would teach people the basics of how to cook and particularly how to cook with fresh ingredients. An idea is born. Well, reborn actually. You see Delia has used this formula once before. It was her ?Complete Cookery Course? (or rather the television series of the same name) which first brought...

SueMagee 03.07.2002 · Read review
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Review of Delia's How to Cook: Book 1 - Delia Smith

Some Good Home Cooking

Advantages: Very varied recipes; good photographs
Disadvantages: none

...Having lived for over twenty years in Cairo, where home cooking was the norm, on returning to the UK I gave in to the temptation to try out quite a few of the ready meals that I came across in the supermarkets. I was often short of time, and that was my excuse for not going overboard on home cooking. I did think it might be useful to have a recipe book just in case, and bought The Good Housekeeping Cookery Book for as little as one pound as part of an introductory offer when I joined a book club. It went up on the top shelf of the bookcase, and there it stayed until I thought I would check its advice on roasting the Christmas turkey. It was some time before the book was opened again. We always used to buy ready-made pizza bases and put our own toppings on. Then we wondered if perhaps we could make our own pizza dough as well. I...

denella 15.10.2006 · Read review
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Review of Good Housekeeping Cookery Book (The Cook's Classic Companion) - Good Housekeeping Institute

The Ultimate Cook Book For Blokes

Advantages: It Easy To Use And Understand
Disadvantages: none

...I have always been keen to learn how to be able to cook and when I got this book as Christmas present off my parents I thought that they were taking the Mickey out of my cooking skills. My inability to produce anything that was edible and that didn?t look like something my cat had produced after eating my left over take-away , was the main floor in my success and this book was a real help for me. This book spent the first few weeks of its life at the back of my kitchen cupboard behind all the tins of baked beans that were the main part of my diet. One day my parents decided that they wanted me too make them a meal and boy did I need the book. I looked through the book and saw that it contained all the information that I could possibly require. The book starts with the basics such as how to boil an egg and how to cook dried...

martint1983 21.10.2004 · Read review
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Review of Cooking for Blokes - Marian Walls, Duncan Anderson

Classic cooking

Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: none

...Good house keeping cookery book the cook sclassic companion Good housekeeping has had a magazine going for many years with tips and ideas and cookery recipes. There are several good housekeeping recipe books published. I have the standard good housekeeping cookery book its years old, first published 1948! (My copy only 10 yrs old) I assume the recipes and contents have changed and are different in the copy I have. This book is a big fat book 590 pages. I have other books but often use this one. It is an excellent book one which would be good to give someone starting up cooking for him or herself. In fact Sally has a copy an older one of mine I gave her when she started uni. This book starts with a chapter on eating for health this gives information on vitamins, fats cholesterol, carbohydrates, sugar, salt minerals. Advice...

mumsymary 08.02.2004 · Read review
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Review of Good Housekeeping Cookery Book (The Cook's Classic Companion) - Good Housekeeping Institute

David Cook

Advantages: Current American Idol winner, a musician
Disadvantages: None

...This...... is the current American Idol Winner. David Cook is the American Idol that nearly never was. He actually was not initially going to try out for the television talent show, he was at the auditions to support his brother but, after some pushing from his brother, decided to audition too. A good decision, because he became the winner of the seventh season of American Idol in 2008. David Cook is classified as a Rock, singer-songwriter. His sound is definitely very rocky, but in my opinion quite soft rock. He has a very deep, raspy voice that lends itself very well to this type of music. What I really like about him is that he can actually play an instrument, unlike a lot of the new pop stars out there today who are just manufactured. He plays the guitar and actually used it quite a lot when he was performing on Idol. If you look...

Spottydog11 05.05.2009 · Read review
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Review of David Cook - David Cook

What is your favourite book

Advantages: You will want to read it
Disadvantages: You may have to read it over and over agin

...My little girl had learnt her alphabet so as a treat I thought I would get her a little present too say well done. So offer take myself to Waterstones to get her some new books, they had offer of 3 for 2 on picture books so picked up three books. I just love Julia Donaldson books, as I find her book easy to read and the kids always enjoy them she always gets it spot on. They had three that she did not have yet with this offer so I picked them for her. One of the books I picked was Charlie?s favourite cook book. What is about? Charlie settles down to read his favourite book and he reads you the first page of his book, the first page of his book is about a pirate who walked the plank, swam to an island, dug for treasure and he finds his favourite book. The next page in the story is a section out of the pirate?s favourite book...

ldvda 15.06.2007 · Read review
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Review of Charlie Cook's Favourite Book - Julia Donaldson