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"Enchanting, entertaining and easy to follow, each recipe explains how the dishes were discovered and the recipes have evolved. Bright, funny and charming, Daisy makes you want to cook everything and convinces you that you can." --Easy Living, October 2008
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"Daisy Garnett's experiences as a novice ships cook were the beinning of a livelong love of food. Her recipes and anecdotes are full of really useful tips."
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Some thoughts from the most appropriate person I know my mum, SA Sayer:
What a delightful book to read, entertaining, funny and informative. It's about a young women and how she fell into cooking and how her passion for food grew. She draws you in, in a relaxed fashion, giving recipes for food in such a way that you just want to try it for yourself.
It's a down to earth book, as she says "...nothing, but nothing, beats a good crumble, and the best crumble of all is an apple crumble." In a number of cases it is not so much a recipe as an explanation of how to make something work, often missing from a more traditional cook book. Many readers will find this book reassuring in that what they are doing is probably right and if not there are useful suggestions as to how to get it right.
The book would make a lovely present, both to give or to receive.
What a delightful book to read, entertaining, funny and informative. It's about a young women and how she fell into cooking and how her passion for food grew. She draws you in, in a relaxed fashion, giving recipes for food in such a way that you just want to try it for yourself.
It's a down to earth book, as she says "...nothing, but nothing, beats a good crumble, and the best crumble of all is an apple crumble." In a number of cases it is not so much a recipe as an explanation of how to make something work, often missing from a more traditional cook book. Many readers will find this book reassuring in that what they are doing is probably right and if not there are useful suggestions as to how to get it right.
The book would make a lovely present, both to give or to receive.
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My wife's a real cooking enthusiast - here's her review:
This is a beautifully presented and illustrated book which I curled up in an armchair and read from cover to cover on a chilly January weekend. I enjoy cooking and eating, and like Daisy I love to do this in the company of family and friends. The best things about this book are her infectious enthusiasm for using fresh ingredients and wasting nothing; her emphasis on thinking about what tastes YOU like and how they will marry together; and the importance of having enough time to experiment and try things out in your kitchen. That is not to say that all the recipes take ages to make: on the contrary there are lots of quick and tasty ideas for pasta, rice and salad dishes that anyone can rustle up for lunch or supper, as well as complex all day affairs like the perfect fish stew...
However, you may feel either captivated or annoyed by the descriptions of Daisy's fabulously well-connected life and times, including a long stint in New York working for American Vogue, which provide the background anecdotes for her journey towards the kitchen. I felt both emotions, and overall would have preferred more cookery and less lifestyle.
Dotted throughout her story, Daisy takes recipes from a range of other cookbooks and friends, and they are always scrupulously attributed. She talks you through the "how to make" each recipe with lots of useful tips along the way such as new potatoes go into boiling water but old ones for mash should start in cold with their skins on; and also explains some crucial "whys" - don't skip the slow sweating in butter of your vegetables for any soup if you want the best flavour, the heaviness of chocolate means it needs special treatment in soufflés and so on.
She writes about food with some of the exactness of Delia, mixed in with the "can do" of Jamie, a dash of Nigella's lust, and the occasional profanity from Gordon. It is not a straight forward cookery book where you can look up a recipe for the ingredients you have in the fridge, but it has inspired me to make a list of must tries - we have already enjoyed the Omelette Arnold Bennett and her way with a lamb chop - next I need to get an ice-cream maker to make the intriguing Pine Nut Ice Cream , and I cannot wait to have a go at Blotkake from Norway which sounds deliciously like my favourite Fraisier cake available at great expense from the best French patisseries: featherlight sponge, cream, strawberries, marzipan mmmm!
This is a beautifully presented and illustrated book which I curled up in an armchair and read from cover to cover on a chilly January weekend. I enjoy cooking and eating, and like Daisy I love to do this in the company of family and friends. The best things about this book are her infectious enthusiasm for using fresh ingredients and wasting nothing; her emphasis on thinking about what tastes YOU like and how they will marry together; and the importance of having enough time to experiment and try things out in your kitchen. That is not to say that all the recipes take ages to make: on the contrary there are lots of quick and tasty ideas for pasta, rice and salad dishes that anyone can rustle up for lunch or supper, as well as complex all day affairs like the perfect fish stew...
However, you may feel either captivated or annoyed by the descriptions of Daisy's fabulously well-connected life and times, including a long stint in New York working for American Vogue, which provide the background anecdotes for her journey towards the kitchen. I felt both emotions, and overall would have preferred more cookery and less lifestyle.
Dotted throughout her story, Daisy takes recipes from a range of other cookbooks and friends, and they are always scrupulously attributed. She talks you through the "how to make" each recipe with lots of useful tips along the way such as new potatoes go into boiling water but old ones for mash should start in cold with their skins on; and also explains some crucial "whys" - don't skip the slow sweating in butter of your vegetables for any soup if you want the best flavour, the heaviness of chocolate means it needs special treatment in soufflés and so on.
She writes about food with some of the exactness of Delia, mixed in with the "can do" of Jamie, a dash of Nigella's lust, and the occasional profanity from Gordon. It is not a straight forward cookery book where you can look up a recipe for the ingredients you have in the fridge, but it has inspired me to make a list of must tries - we have already enjoyed the Omelette Arnold Bennett and her way with a lamb chop - next I need to get an ice-cream maker to make the intriguing Pine Nut Ice Cream , and I cannot wait to have a go at Blotkake from Norway which sounds deliciously like my favourite Fraisier cake available at great expense from the best French patisseries: featherlight sponge, cream, strawberries, marzipan mmmm!
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The casual, easy style of the writing, the charming illustrations and the enticing recipes ensure this book will spend more time on my kitchen table than it will on the shelf.
Tracing a meandering path from a childhood where eating food equals refuelling to an adult's realisation that making food equals unending delight, Ms Garnett shares some entertaining moments and some very delicious meals. Some of her ingredients are expensive and some are not; most of the recipes are simplicity itself and some are a little more complicated. In short, there is something to please most readers and much to encourage the reluctant or nervous cook.
Her Pasta with Broccoli using anchovies and garlic seems unlikely but I found the combination of flavours shockingly good. This sounds almost a ridiculous response but I had half-prepared myself not to like it. I scraped the serving dish clean. Berry ice cream, sea bass in banana leaves, braised red cabbage, gingerbread: a jewellery box of tastes and adventures awaits!
A slight downer is the occasional lapse into Ramsey-style language; it doesn't contribute to the book one jot and it doesn't do the author's ability justice, either. You can always tippex out the offending words if you want, because the rest of the book is too good to sacrifice.
Tracing a meandering path from a childhood where eating food equals refuelling to an adult's realisation that making food equals unending delight, Ms Garnett shares some entertaining moments and some very delicious meals. Some of her ingredients are expensive and some are not; most of the recipes are simplicity itself and some are a little more complicated. In short, there is something to please most readers and much to encourage the reluctant or nervous cook.
Her Pasta with Broccoli using anchovies and garlic seems unlikely but I found the combination of flavours shockingly good. This sounds almost a ridiculous response but I had half-prepared myself not to like it. I scraped the serving dish clean. Berry ice cream, sea bass in banana leaves, braised red cabbage, gingerbread: a jewellery box of tastes and adventures awaits!
A slight downer is the occasional lapse into Ramsey-style language; it doesn't contribute to the book one jot and it doesn't do the author's ability justice, either. You can always tippex out the offending words if you want, because the rest of the book is too good to sacrifice.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Cookery book with a difference
This is a cookery book with a difference loads of stories behind each and every recipe.
Great read and learn loads of general tips all the way through. Read more
Great read and learn loads of general tips all the way through. Read more
Published on 25 Mar 2010 by David A. Nash
Good gift for a foodie
I gave this to my mother as a gift and she has been slowly working through it since. She often mentions it to me - the stories have very much captured her and she is even thinking... Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2009 by Ms. J. Anne Lees
Cookbook or diary?
This book is more of a diary of the authors travels than a traditional cookbook, with recipes inbetween the stories. Read more
Published on 19 Sep 2009 by Harry Parsons
Memoir and Recipes together should work...
... but I'm afraid this just doesn't work for me. The recipes are a little overly pretentious and probably too complex for all but the most ardent cooks. Read more
Published on 3 Sep 2009 by Paul Robinson
Style over substance
My first impression when I saw this book is that it would make a lovely gift. The book looks expensive (with beautiful thick paper) and stylish. Read more
Published on 27 Aug 2009 by TheLibrarian
An enjoyable way to cook
I got this book for my wife and ended up using it myself. The recepes are fairly easy to follow and you don't need a degree in rocket science though it might help. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2009 by David
Ok cook book
This is by no means your traditional cook book. The receipes are interwoven with stories of the writer's life. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2009 by Dove2224
Cooking, Not Waving
I opened this book thinking I was going to learn some new recipes. I discovered quite quickly that the easiest way to learn to cook was being thrown in at the proverbial deep-end... Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by J. Grundy
Pretty revolting book.
This book is so bad, that I was a little bit sick in my mouth. The recipes are so-so at best, certainly nothing that get you running into the kitchen, but the fact that they're... Read more
Published on 1 July 2009 by Dean Wanless
Rambles a bit, but is entertaining and has some great recipes
This book really looks the part - nice cover, really olde worlde in it's appearance. I quite enjoyed Daisy's stories, although some of the details could have been left out to... Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2009 by Jimbo
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