- Hardcover: 247 pages
- Publisher: John Lehmann (1952)
- Language English
- ASIN: B0007E5E8M
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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42 of 46 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As with all of Elizabeth David's books, this is not a list of weights and measures, but of ingredients and expected results.
This is not a book for kids in a hurry, as you need to read it as a gastronomic autobiography first, and then go back and try the recipes.
In style it has the prose style of a "Miss Jean Brodie" with the "chuck in a bit of this and that" of Jamie Oliver! Above all she perfectly describes the robust tastes and smells of rural French cuisine.
This is not a book for kids in a hurry, as you need to read it as a gastronomic autobiography first, and then go back and try the recipes.
In style it has the prose style of a "Miss Jean Brodie" with the "chuck in a bit of this and that" of Jamie Oliver! Above all she perfectly describes the robust tastes and smells of rural French cuisine.
27 of 35 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Elizabeth David's books have this incredible ability to send you to the supermarket.The recipes in French Country Cooking are exactly as the title proclaims simple peasant style country dishes.Yet as ever David wrote in a vivid but impatient style,almost demanding to know why we didn't eat in this hearty flavoursome style and what we were going to do about it.Do what i did ,buy the book and start cooking.
Format:Paperback
I first saw this book at my mother-in-law's and she paid 5 shillings for it. The price has now increased, but the book is full of really great, sensible and packed full of flavour recipies - cannot recommend enough.
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Elizabeth David's Gift to Posterity
French Country Cooking complements her four major works as available in splendid Folio editions. For anyone genuinely interested in the culinary arts will discover in this book a... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Michael
Outstanding cookbook
This is one of the best cookbooks I have bought for a long time - and buying cookbooks is almost an addiction with me. I am reading every word, and salivating as I go. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Rose
family cook book
Quite a pleasant cookery book to add to my collection. I see lots of old family favourites here, and shall enjoy trying the variations of a few more.
Published 8 months ago by Imp
UK's answer to Julia Childs?
This book is outdated now and unlike Julia Child's and Julie and Julia it is hardly comparable. She seems content to pick the French selection of offal recipes more than the... Read more
Published 17 months ago by rhosymynydd
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