- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Collins; 1st Edition edition (2 May 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007219431
- ISBN-13: 978-0007219438
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 19.6 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 742,200 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Think you have to resort to packaged foods to get a meal on the table quickly? Think again. The Working Cook understands the demands of today’s busy lifestyle and shows how, with a minimum of time and effort, you can still eat well.
The Working Cook is a fantastic collection of speedy recipes based on Carina Cooper’s daily food column in the Evening Standard. Stressing easy but tasty food for busy people, it offers delicious meals for the way we live now.
Time-poor cooks are guaranteed to find a recipe to suit in here, whether they want to entertain friends with a minimum of fuss, or are shattered and need to get a meal on the table as quickly as possible at the end of the day. All recipes include cooking and prep times.
Chapters include:
• Ultra-fast
• Feeling Virtuous
• Veggie
• Indulge
• Friends Coming Round
• It’s the Weekend
The Working Cook finally offers an answer to that frustrating daily question, “What shall we eat tonight?”
About the Author
Carina Cooper is food columnist for the Evening Standard, where she has gained scores of followers with her quick and simple recipes for busy cooks. She lives in London with her four daughters.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I bought this book having slowly drifted away from cooking at home. After some self annalysis I was simply bored with what I was eating. This book had a tough job to do - get me eating properly and allow me to enjoy my kitchen again!
Firstly, it's beautifully printed and presented and would sit happily on your coffee table. More importantly however is the authors ability to produce restaurant quality food with very few ingredients that look, taste and provide constant interest to your diet.
The recipes will never overwhelm you and as they require so little planning you can do them after work when you're tired. This book really has done its job and I would thoroughly recommend it.
Firstly, it's beautifully printed and presented and would sit happily on your coffee table. More importantly however is the authors ability to produce restaurant quality food with very few ingredients that look, taste and provide constant interest to your diet.
The recipes will never overwhelm you and as they require so little planning you can do them after work when you're tired. This book really has done its job and I would thoroughly recommend it.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have never previously felt the need to write a review before, but after reading all the positive reviews on this book I bought it. And was then highly disappointed as it did not meet my expectations.
The book itself has a nice feel to it. The photography is brilliant and makes the food look inviting. In fact a few of the recipes sound delicious, but not what I was expecting. However I now notice the subtlety of the very appropriate title - 'quick recipes' and not 'quick meals'. This in fact says it all. The recipes are quick for a reason - a lot of them are salads. Most of the them would thus make great starters or lovely lunches, as opposed to 'quick meals' to enjoy at the end of a busy day, which is what I wanted/thought I was buying. So for readers looking for light meals (grilled cheese/soup/salad), this could be the book for you. Those looking for quick, yummy, nutrionally balanced and filling family meals should look elsewhere.
The book itself has a nice feel to it. The photography is brilliant and makes the food look inviting. In fact a few of the recipes sound delicious, but not what I was expecting. However I now notice the subtlety of the very appropriate title - 'quick recipes' and not 'quick meals'. This in fact says it all. The recipes are quick for a reason - a lot of them are salads. Most of the them would thus make great starters or lovely lunches, as opposed to 'quick meals' to enjoy at the end of a busy day, which is what I wanted/thought I was buying. So for readers looking for light meals (grilled cheese/soup/salad), this could be the book for you. Those looking for quick, yummy, nutrionally balanced and filling family meals should look elsewhere.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The same thoughts as 'Busy working mum' from Surrey, I was truly disappointed when after reading such positive comments I found the book itself to be of very little use to me.
The book itself is beautiful and the recipes do indeed sound delicious, and I'm sure the cooking times are accurately low, however to shop for all the unusual ingredients would take hours per day. I expected this to be full of easy to prepare recipes using ingredients that normal working people would either have around or would find easy to purchase, however unless you work in an international and fully stocked delicatessen most of the recipes will only be possible after several hours of searching and shopping.
It also seems that an oddly high number of recipes use fish (which I don't particularly enjoy eating or having the smell in my kitchen for days).
Overall a very poor choice, and not one I would recommend to anyone.
The book itself is beautiful and the recipes do indeed sound delicious, and I'm sure the cooking times are accurately low, however to shop for all the unusual ingredients would take hours per day. I expected this to be full of easy to prepare recipes using ingredients that normal working people would either have around or would find easy to purchase, however unless you work in an international and fully stocked delicatessen most of the recipes will only be possible after several hours of searching and shopping.
It also seems that an oddly high number of recipes use fish (which I don't particularly enjoy eating or having the smell in my kitchen for days).
Overall a very poor choice, and not one I would recommend to anyone.
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