- Hardcover: 192 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press (24 Feb 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091905575
- ISBN-13: 978-0091905576
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 19.6 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 460,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'What does it take to make a star chef? Ability, charisma, stamina, food knowledge and most of all passion.' John Torode"
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Do you have what it takes to become a top chef? Could you produce imaginative, attractive and delicious dishes under pressure? Could you learn the skills, tips and techniques you need to make it in the cutting world of food? Now you too can become a Masterchef in your own home with this lively book to accompany the major television series. All the help you need is here at your fingertips - the practical skills, Insider knowledge and indispensable hints for transforming the way you cook at home. Presenting 100 of the very best recipes from the series, the book is underpinned by expert advice and 16 masterclasses from acclaimed chef John Torode (as seen on 'This Morning'), plus tips on ingredients from popular food presenter Greg Wallace (as seen on 'Saturday Kitchen'). Illustrated with mouthwatering, full colour photographs throughout, and featuring a directory of specialist food outlets, this is the essential Masterchef guide for beginners and experts alike. Remember: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
'MasterClasses', by John Torode really make this book suitable for both beginners and more experienced cooks, in my opinion.,
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This review is from: Masterchef Goes Large (Hardcover)
'Masterchef is back but not in the way you might have expected. This time 'Masterchef Goes Large', with 100 contestants (amateur cooks) being put through their paces, tested and re-tested to find the ultimate Masterchef 2005'Durable board covers open to 192 shiny, well laid out and easy-to-read, high quality pages, split over chapters: 1. Soups and Starters 2. Fish and Shellfish 3. Meat Poultry and Game 4. Salads and Vegetarian 5. Desserts sandwiched between an introduction by John Torode and a List of Suppliers, introduced by Gregg Wallace. Concise index. Colour photography throughout. 'John Torode has cooked at many of the finest restaurants in the country and now runs his own. Gregg Wallace has grown and supplied produce to some of the top chefs in the UK. Both used their extensive knowledge and expertise in the kitchen to guide and test contestants as Masterchef judges, along with Peter Richards, the Masterchef Mentor, who is a respected chef and teacher at Westminster College, and taught Jamie Oliver, among many others, to cook.' As a book associated with a TV series it is typical of its type, but is greatly enhanced by written sections called: 'Masterclasses', by John Torode, which are slotted in between the recipes and are designed to provide a backbone of basic working techniques, including basic recipe/techniques for: * Basic Hollandaise Sauce * Risotto * Omelette * Egg Basics * Pastry * Mayonnaise * Pasta * Steak * Burger * Fish 'Masterchef Top Tips' are useful snippets of information dotted throughout, although Gregg Wallace can be a touch 'near-the-knuckle', at times: 'If like me, you enjoy a gamy flavour from your dead 'Bambi', ask your butcher if the meat has been hung.' In his introduction to the 'List of Suppliers', Gregg nudges the 'supermarkets' knowledge of its fresh produce: ' .....then why are you happy to buy food from nice, polite young men and women in supermarkets who obviously know nothing about food? Ask the man behind the meat counter, the one on his way to a fancy dress party dressed as a butcher, how long the beef has been hung. Ask the chap stacking cauliflowers on shelves his opinion of purple sprouting broccoli over calabrese. You will get hilarious responses.' So it is mildly surprising that Marks & Spencer, Sainsburys and Waitrose are the only 'supermarkets' to appear on the 3-page 'Supplier List', which is handy because, apart from a page and three quarters for London, it does also include names, addresses and telephone numbers of selected UK/Ireland specialists such as 'Fishworks' and 'The Fine Cheese Company, both of Bath', 'Langley Chase Organic Farm', 'Peppers by Post', 'Lewis & Cooper' of Northallerton to name just a few - truly useful bookmarks at your fingertips, for when that special or elusive ingredient is required.
20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great..but do be careful!,
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This review is from: Masterchef Goes Large (Paperback)
Great book with wonderful recipes all clearly explained. The only snag is that this is the book for the 1st series shown last year and NOT the new series which is currently being shown.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Masterchef goes Large,
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This review is from: Masterchef Goes Large (Hardcover)
This if definitely a cookbook that will never be out of date. Description of different
cooking techniques by John Torode cannot be improved upon, when followed properly they are fantastic. Also let me say that although we cannot see the Masterchef series directly in Sweden, it is equally fascinating seeing them with a delay of one or two years, as long as one does not look on the internet to see who has won that is.
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