- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Jonathan Cape (14 Feb 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0224077961
- ISBN-13: 978-0224077965
- Product Dimensions: 15.5 x 2.6 x 23.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 354,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Most amusing,
By First time buyer (london) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Doing without Delia: Tales of Triumph and Disaster in a French Kitchen (Paperback)
I loved the book - it really made me laugh and the author's enjoyment and fulfilment in doing the course shone through. It's also a book that I've re-read in parts quite frequently for sheer enjoyment, and the author comes across not only as the ideal dinner party cook but also as guest. That said, the recipes were a bit unnecessary, and the book would have benefited from providing more of a critique of the school and its approach to cooking. The "manifesto" at the end could also have been expanded, although that might have sat rather uneasily with the light-hearted nature of the rest of the book.Anyone tempted to follow in the author's footsteps should realise that taking the same courses would incur tuition fees of over 22000! That's on top of living costs, and at the end of it you are qualified to work in a kitchen on the minimum wage!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Make sure your lobster doesn't escape!,
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This review is from: Sacré Cordon Bleu (Paperback)
From the first page of this book I was hooked. Imagine giving up everything including your cookery book collection and taking your family to live in France whilst you learn to cook at the best cookery school in the world - Le Cordon Bleu. Michael Booth spoke very little French when he moved to Paris but he wanted to learn to cook from the best in the world. Read about his fellow students from all over the world, the eccentric chefs and the escaping lobsters. The sentence that sticks in my mind is a description of a lobster wriggling like 'a knight with ants in his armour'. If you're even vaguely interested in cooking or Paris - read this book. There are some recipes as well, but it's the tips you pick up which are useful - for example always let meat rest for half as long as you've cooked it for. If you love chocolate you'll drool over the short course he did in chocolate making. Brilliant
16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Let's all go to Culinary School and write a book,
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This review is from: Sacré Cordon Bleu (Paperback)
It's not a bad read and he sums up his feeling about cooking in a professional kitchen very well, but I don't need a lesson in stock-making or the Maillard reaction from someone at a cookery school. The recipes are pretty useless. but that's not the reason to buy this book.The one reason you would not buy this book is that it has to be the most shoddily put together publication I have ever read. Doesn't anyone proof-read the book before it goes to press. There were times when I literally had to decipher what had been written. I'm sure that this isn't Michael Booth's fault, but someone at Jonathan Cape needs to learn their job.
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