- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Collins (7 Nov 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007752024
- ISBN-13: 978-0007752027
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 19.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 420,285 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Food & Travel magazine, October 2005
acheivable and inspiring
You Magazine, The Mail on Sunday, October 2005
A reminder of a world where the gift of good food offers more than vanity and calories on a plate
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really liked this book. The recipes are excellent. It is a selection of recipes from the world's top chefs and includes interesting information about them as well as a photo of them off duty, such as Nigella Lawson in the bath. The recipes range from very easy to complex but it is a great gift for Xmas.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Nigella Lawson embodies this book's intimate nature, fetchingly photographed in her bath. She offers up a homey beef stew marinated in Guinness, with the reassuring comment, "If the stew looks like school dinner, it doesn't taste like it." There's the comfort of the familiar-a Wolfgang Puck wild-mushroom pizza, say, or a crab risotto from Jamie Oliver. Three-star chef Heston Blumenthal humbly delivers pea and ham soup, so unlike his scientific experiments at the Fat Duck in Bray, Berkshire; Alain Ducasse shows us his roast veal with vegetables, and Rose Gray and Ruth Rodgers of London's River Café reveal their classic sea bass with potatoes. But challenges abound, like Nobu Matsuhisa's salmon marinated in mirin and sake, or rock-star chef Gordon Ramsay's coffee panna cotta. Suspicious foam emulsion appears infrequently (do chefs really foam at home?), as do those odd towers of meat sliced like a Shanghai skyscraper. Endearing Briticisms abound: best-selling cookbook writer Delia Smith's recipe calls for "prime British gammon" (boneless ham, but with the skin remaining); courgettes are translated as zucchini, broad beans as favas. But the book's generous spirit is, not surprisingly, best captured in David Nicholls's own offering, My Anything Salad, which shows us that great chefs, just like the rest of us, "raid the fridge and make a salad using anything that's available." The book's dedication, "To Daniel, knowing that you will one day walk again," is reason enough to own it.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having read and written quite a few cooking books in my time I do believe that this one is fantastic. Great book, great ideas. Definately worth to buy.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
It's not about the recipes!
This book is an excellent gift for anybody who truely loves cooking and dining in award winning restaurants. Read more
Published on 29 Aug 2008 by L. Smith
Off duty... ha ha ha
The title is very very wrong..... But there are some excellent recipes in the book. These chefs dont cook theis stuff at home I can gaurentee you that. Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2006 by Mr. M. Randall
Great for ideas for dinner parties
I hope I am quite a good cook and certainly enjoy cooking but am sometimes lacking inspiration about what to cook for friends when they come round. Read more
Published on 10 April 2006
Good book, good cause
This is a wonderful addition to any cook book library, and an interesting insight into the lives of some of the world's best chefs. Read more
Published on 31 Mar 2006 by Elna
Off Duty, you must be joking!
I was very dissapointed in this book. You would have thought, from the title, that the recipes were , as promised, what chefs cook at home. Read more
Published on 23 Nov 2005 by Louise
Off Duty: The World's Greatest Chefs Cook at Home
The title of this book led me to belive that the recipies would be using common ingredients, more of a Jamies Dinners type of book, I was really disappointed. Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2005
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