Review
‘Floyd introduced an element of chaos, even danger to proceedings … The book is packed with tales of larger-than-life antics and wacky experiences. There are brilliant descriptions of coming of age in the 60s and 70s, subsisting on things like tripe, onions and tinned pilchard salad and encountering such exotic fare as Lurpack butter and spaghetti bolognase for the first time.’ Observer
‘The omnipresence of telly chefs was first foreshadowed and arguably made possible, by Keith Floyd. The author of this memoir, David Pritchard, was the television-maker who plucked him from his Bristol bistro and put him on telly. Floyd’s unbuttoned style made him an instant hit.’ Daily Mail
‘Heartening – as well as very funny – to read of the lick and stick pioneering days of late 70s and 80s food programme-making. David Pritchard is a dryly companionable narrator of those trailblazing years. His captivating memoir proves that – without his sense of culinary adventure, his artfulness of the apparent insatiability of his appetite – a generation of rich, starry television cooks might never have made it quite so far, or so fast.’ Daily Telegraph
Chosen as a Telegraph ‘Book of the Year’ by Kate Colquhoun
