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All the treats needed for a perfect summer's day-out --The Times - 3rd July 2010 -
Alice Heart is a fun and funky new voice in food - and one we like -- Mail on Sunday - 11th of July 2010-
Easy-to-follow advice on everything from wholesome brunches to smart dinner parties, with inspirational seasonal recipes. --Country Life, 7th July 2010 -
A delightful first book from a fresh new breeze in the world of cooking. --BBC Good Food Magazine, September 2010
Uncomplicated, moreish and packed with good-for-you ingredients --Zest, September 2010
Alice Hart is a fun and funky new voice in food - and one we like --You Magazine (Mail on Sunday), July 11, 2010
Alice Heart is a fun and funky new voice in food - and one we like -- Mail on Sunday - 11th of July 2010-
Easy-to-follow advice on everything from wholesome brunches to smart dinner parties, with inspirational seasonal recipes. --Country Life, 7th July 2010 -
A delightful first book from a fresh new breeze in the world of cooking. --BBC Good Food Magazine, September 2010
Uncomplicated, moreish and packed with good-for-you ingredients --Zest, September 2010
Alice Hart is a fun and funky new voice in food - and one we like --You Magazine (Mail on Sunday), July 11, 2010
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Alice Hart is an exciting, authoritative new young voice on food who loves to share her culinary knowledge with friends. For her, food is about fun. In this, her first book, she aims to encourage her generation of 20- and 30-somethings to cook the original, modern food they enjoy to fit the lifestyles they lead. With chapters based around occasions - breakfast and brunches, suppers and shared lunches, laid-back parties, outdoor camping and picnic food - Alice is acutely aware of seasonal cooking, dividing the recipes into Frost and Fireside or Sunshine and Strawberries. Whenever you dip into the book - whether it be in January to find a New Year brunch, during August for a faded summer kitchen supper for friends, or in winter for ideas for a chic drinks party - you will find a selection of inspiring and memorable menus. Recipes are eclectic and varied, ranging from Boursin Omelette Baguettes (Portable Breakfast for a Crowd), Campfire charred mackerel with red chicory and pomegranate (Summer Camping), Lemongrass pork bun bowls (Autumn Supper), to Toffee Pears with Flaked Almonds (Winter Film Night). Alice shows how to make cooking for a crowd easier and cheaper, and her practical hints on timing a meal, making your storecupboard work for you and scaling quantities up or down will make life more easy for people who love to cook and eat. This book is above all cook-friendly, with quick ideas for packed lunches and recipes to get you out of a fix when time is really tight. As Alice says, it's not just about cooking, it's about enjoying life to the full.
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Alice's Cook Book. - Alice Hart.,
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I am a keen collector of cookbooks. My collection runs into the hundreds, and dates back nearly a century. However, I can say with some degree of confidence that I have never read in any of them that the use of a camper van is recommended by way of a cooking utensil. Never.I used to own a camper van just like Alice, so I am on her wave length (or band width for the younger reader). When she refers to it as "the ultimate in mobile kitchens" she scores a culinary hole in one with me. As a camper van girl hers is not the kitchen scattered with a dozen dirty bowls, a sink full of washing up and four burners and the oven firing flat out. A camper van kitchen is compact, utilitarian and compels the chef to cook in a minimalist way. If you saw the size of the sink inside them, you would understand - it is barely big enough to set a jelly in. It stands to reason then that camper tucker is going to have a pretty easy ride to the table. Like picnics and play away barbecues, she prepares things in advance to cut out unnecessary fussing when out and about. Indeed she bravely attempts damper bread cooked on a stick over an open fire, and suggests dry mixing the ingredients into a plastic bag at home. Also cakes to be baked at home to bring along too. All such sensible advice. Exotica such as grilled corn and sweet potato with lime dressing, rosemary farinata and Saigon salad rolls are effortlessly put together like ham and pickle sandwiches and a flask of tea. No prizes for working out which tastes better. Alice does operate from inside her house and domestic kitchen too. She extols the delights of a traditional family Sunday lunch, offering pleasant twists on the usual fare and arranges the recipes here as elsewhere into orderly menus to provide a complete and complimentary meal. Breakfast , lunch and parties all have their own chapters, and throughout the book she constantly offers sensible short cuts to avoid the last minute crush before the food arrives at table, leaving the cook to enjoy the meal along with others , be it family or friends, few or many. So, if you want to make lamb cigars, boozy lollies or learn how to cover your tracks after a camp fire, Alice's Cook Book is the one to buy.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic and Beautiful First Cookbook for Alice!,
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Alice's Cook Book is the ideal mix of easy accessible recipes, beautiful photography, non-coated paper. I carried it around in my bag for a few days and read it while commuting to work, and last weekend tried the brownies recipe, which Alice says is the best recipe ever. The person to whom I gave the tray of brownies after eating a few let me know they were the best brownies he's ever eaten, and offered four to his electrician as a bribe to get him to do some extra work in his home. ;-)I think Quadrille's idea to do a New Voices in Food series is a great way to introduce new-ish talent to the market that isn't your typical TV presenter or superstar chef. I say new-ish because Alice has an established track record-- which is why her recipes are good and her writing style engaging. Anyway, this is a great book, and I am going to be buying it as a gift for a few friends.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
+++ A fussy book with a few gems+++,
By Mr. Philip Harkins "If in doubt, Smile! :-)" (London) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Alice's Cookbook (New Voices in Food) (Paperback)
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I have a huge collection of cook books with just a few old faithfuls that I return to time and time again. This is not likely to become one of them. Very few of the recipes can be made from items in the cupboard and indeed I think I would struggle to find some ingredients in the average high street (though I haven't tried yet). If you want to know how to make Pomegranate Jelly or Oatcakes with Gruyere then this is the book for you. I have found it over fussy and actually a little intimidating. There are however a few little gems inside, The Spiced Pear Relish is fantastic (and just in season) and the Best Brownies are to die for! I am also looking forward to trying the Chilli Jam. These are the saving graces and earn it the three stars, otherwise the Bruleed Sabayon or Pan Fried Gurnard would, I am afraid, leave me cold. I though I was quite knowledgable about food, maybe I'm not, maybe this book is for someone with a degree in recipe names who may realise they are normal recipes with fancy titles. Or not. I think I spent more time referring to the Glossary to work out what I was reading!
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