On and off, I've tended to read quite a bit. So, I thought I'd put up some reviews of books as I read them. In time, I may go back and add reviews of some of the books I read in the past. Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
Real Cooking - Nigel Slater
Nigel Slater does fantastic food writing. There's something terribly entrancing about his descriptions of simple food done well. This book is jam-packed with ideas and, well, motivation for plenty of fairly simple recipes that you're quite likely to want to cook and eat. His rallying against namby-pamby food rings a little hollow - delicate cooking can be truely excellent, but for the most part these are melas that are difficult to get wrong - perfect for beginners. He even emphasises that when he's not being exact, that's because the amounts really don't matter, and that if something's important, he'll tell you. How confidence-building is that? He worships the gooey and crunchy bits of fry-ups, and exudes a highly infectious joy of cooking and eating. The first cookery book I got was Delia's cookery course, and while it's been a steady recipe resource, there's just no comparison.
Permalink. Posted 16:03, Tue, 02 Jan 2007.
There is also a complete index of the books.
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