 Re: Cooks Books! good and bad
On the kitchen shelves:
Mastering the Art Of French Cooking-Bertholt, Beck & Child.
IMO just about the last word on it.
2x Nigel Slater
Madhur
David's French Provincial
Marcella Hazan's Classic Italian
Thane Prince Quick Cook
Sainsbury's Cooks Companion by Jocelyn Dimbleby-IMO the 'best' single volume reference to everyday stuff.
Pick from the Shelves under the Stairs (cookbooks only)
Jamie's stuff-can't really train under the River Cafe lot & fuck it up. Reads well & what I've tried works.
Assorted Delia. Can't really have the Good Housekeeping write your original recipes & fuck it up. Occassionally referred to, but not much.
Raymond Blanc & Sophie's Meat & Veg (crumbs-how severe does our little elphin look back then?!)
Ken Hom's Hot Wok
Ainsley (there's a twat in my kitchen) BBQ book. IMO as good as if not better than Floyd's. See below though.
A few Australian Women's Weeklies-mexican & BBQ are the most thumbed.
Sugar Club & Bill Granger's Sydney Food.
My favest from there: Memories with Food at Gipsy House-Felicity & Roald Dahl. Mainly because I adore Roald Dahl-& it's lovely & whimsical.
Worst Cook Books.
Dunno-most books have something of worth in them. Can't say that I've ever cooked much out of the Mossiman one's I have. Don't know why that might be. Moth-convince me otherwise. I think a lot of those supermarket recipe cards are a touch dodgy & some of the recipes in Waitrose Food Illustrated read through as untested.
Less than sure about the fatman's daughter too, but that could just be prejudice of some kind centered around peristent rumours that her recipes don't work.
Feck-I think I chucked my Floyd on India during a move. Still makes me chuckle though-hand scribbled illus of a meatball followed by one of 'this is a bullet'!!
NB No fish books (except Stein somewhere). Recc me one please. Ah, I'm sure I've a copy of Susan Hicks Fish Couse somewhere.
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