- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate (4 Mar 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007255500
- ISBN-13: 978-0007255504
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.4 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 507,254 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`Impossible to put down, elegantly erudite and often belly shakingly funny, this is one of the best books on food, cooking and, dare I say it, love, that I've read for years.' --Tom Parker Bowles
`I have always been charmed and hilariously delighted by Chris Hirst's musings on cooking and kitchens. Love Bites is brilliant.' --Simon Hopkinson
`I hugely approve of Mr Hirst.' --Jonathan Meades
'Christopher understands that the way to a woman's heart is through her stomach.' --Kathy Lette
`I have always been charmed and hilariously delighted by Chris Hirst's musings on cooking and kitchens. Love Bites is brilliant.' --Simon Hopkinson
`I hugely approve of Mr Hirst.' --Jonathan Meades
'Christopher understands that the way to a woman's heart is through her stomach.' --Kathy Lette
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Prompted partly by gastronomic curiosity and partly by sheer greed, Mr H entered the kitchen with Mrs H as his guide. The result is perhaps the most honest food book ever written. It is certainly one of the funniest.
While exploring culinary items both famous and obscure, from pizza to pancakes, Seville orange marmalade to blancmange, they made an important discovery - there are several important differences between men and women in the kitchen.
Women in the kitchen (according to Mr H)
• Women are very, very, very bossy.
• Women are very difficult to get out of kitchen shops. Their favourite reading tends to be the Lakeland catalogue.
• Women are obsessed with cleanliness to extent that it imperils our natural resistance to bugs and germs.
Men in the kitchen (according to Mrs H)
• Men want a huge amount of praise for anything they do.
• Men are reluctant to follow recipes in the same way that they are reluctant to ask for directions when they are lost.
• Men tend to overdo the ingredients in recipes. They think that if a little is good then a lot will be even better.
Many dishes in this perilous endeavour were seasoned with salty language and peppery outbursts. In the devastating heat of the kitchen, it was the most perilous of domestic adventures, but the marriage somehow survived.
Some couples climb Kilimanjaro, Mr and Mrs H made a pork pie.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Shuttling between South London and North Yorkshire, Mr and Mrs H seek out ways of producing the best hamburger, pizza, pasta, pancakes, pork pie, rhubarb pie, marmalade etc. They are notably assiduous on the unlikely topic of blancmange.
Prodding and testing the kitchen status quo there is an occasional hint that maybe one half of this relationship is more sure of her place in the pecking order than the other but praise and rebuke are meted out in equal portions by both sides and, on the whole, graciously accepted.
Reasons to buy this book: it is very funny; there is no other food book quite like this one; it is not celebrity poncing about in the kitchen; it's a refreshing mix of food, love, rivalry, sulking, pride before a fall and huffing and puffing; it is generously scattered with interesting references and musings on food; it has recipes and, like radio, it has no pictures.
One reason not to buy this book. You might find yourself in your pyjamas in the kitchen, at three o'clock in the morning, trying to make the perfect Welsh, Scotch, Irish or English rarebit. Or is it rabbit?
Prodding and testing the kitchen status quo there is an occasional hint that maybe one half of this relationship is more sure of her place in the pecking order than the other but praise and rebuke are meted out in equal portions by both sides and, on the whole, graciously accepted.
Reasons to buy this book: it is very funny; there is no other food book quite like this one; it is not celebrity poncing about in the kitchen; it's a refreshing mix of food, love, rivalry, sulking, pride before a fall and huffing and puffing; it is generously scattered with interesting references and musings on food; it has recipes and, like radio, it has no pictures.
One reason not to buy this book. You might find yourself in your pyjamas in the kitchen, at three o'clock in the morning, trying to make the perfect Welsh, Scotch, Irish or English rarebit. Or is it rabbit?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book should carry a Health Warning: Causes Uncontrollable Laughter: Do Not Read in Public Places. Brilliant, I loved every page. And totally inspiring; how is it that Mr and Mrs Hirst love all the same food as I do? I could not wait to get into the kitchen and make the best ever pancakes, scrambled eggs and hamburgers. This is food that really matters. And with a wealth of arcane and erudite food lore, it's utterly absorbing and fascinating. And no, not a teenage vampire in sight.
Format:Paperback
This is an extremely funny book. After regularly reading Christopher Hirst's 'The Weasel' in The Independent, I was looking forward to his book and I was not disappointed. His knowledge of different foods from various parts of the world is very impressive and his writing is always witty and original. I laughed out loud throughout the book.
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