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 Buy this F***ing book big boy! March 7, 2009
A. Jackson (Suffolk)
35 out of 39 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic book of British favourites with the Ramsay touch. It has easy to follow recipes for everything from crisps pork scratchings (Michelin starred pork scratchings???)to roasts, with tradional comfort food like hotpot etc, steak in ale pie, pates etc. I've only had the chance to try one recipe so far in my first 24 hours but it has turned out wonderfully.
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br /I have quite a few Ramsay cookbooks and would reccomend this one to anyone. Whereas some (like 3 * chef) are almost "food porn" - looks great but little chance of doing it at home, this is easy to follow with everyday ingredients, no special equipment but great wholesome food.
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br /The print is clear, some great photos of the food and of Ramsay Sarge, a nice retro feel to some of them too.
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br /I don't have a Ramsay pub within about 100 miles so this is the next best thing. Buy it, read it, use it to make something to impress your family and friends, you and they will be glad you did
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You can pull me a pint anytime, Gordon March 13, 2009
Scottish Footie
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
Love Gordon and love this new book. There are some real classics here which I'd sort of forgotten about but never should have. It's a real celebration of good, honest, simple food which is what any good pub should focus on. Good bangers and mash will beat hand-massaged Iranian goose burgers with a side of organic kale roasted by monks any day of the week.
Really good book of traditional British Pub Food July 9, 2009
Simon Beer (Wirral, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I have really enjoyed reading through this and trying some of the excellent recipes. The book covers a large number of dishes most cooks will already make my their version off, but don't take that as a bad thing. Instead I think of it a bit like the Cook Off's on the F-Word where Gordon shows the celebs his take on their signature dish, mainly resulting in a really good alternative.
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br /I have tried the bangers and mash and the chicken and bacon pie to great success. I am sure the others will be just as easy. Compared to Jamie Oliver's random mutterings on a page that sometimes leave vital decisions to the imagination, Gordon's recipes are easy top read and follow. For a nice change these ones are very realistic midweek home fayre too. You don't have to throw a dinner party, scour oriental supermarkets or any of the other nonsense many cookbooks result in. Instead the vast majority of recipes are best serviced by a herb garden, a trip to the butcher, the greengrocers and some store cupboard essentials, my kind of cooking.
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br /My only wish with this book is that some of the bloomin awful pubs around my house go buy this and take on some of the recipes. It is near impossible to name one that provides what I class as good pub food, instead it is either carveries or menus so big there isn't a cat in hells chance of anything being fresh. A simple mixture of some nice grill basics and 4-6 specials for the week should be enough for any of them.
A Beautiful Publication For Lovers of Offal March 27, 2009
David K. Atkinson (United Kingdom)
32 out of 62 found this review helpful
After all the hype, controversy and media frenzy that has surrounded the release of this, Ramsay's seventeenth thriller, I was eager to get my hands on a copy. I had no intention of reading it, but as soon I opened the book I was hooked. The story focuses on the main character, 6oz Butter, and throughout the book we see him land himself in a variety of scrapes and predicaments often with hilarious results.
br / 6oz Butter is not alone in this strange world which Ramsay creates, and is joined by some of his friends: Apinch O Salt features heavily, as do the lovable duo Bangers and Mash and the evil Garlic Cloves.
br / The book reads at a good steady pace and it is split nicely into three sub storys. In 'Starters' we are first introduced to our hero 6oz, as he does battle with the hot and seductive mistress Chicken Wings, before falling foul of the villainous Frenchman 'Soup de Jour'.
br /The second section of the book is where things really start to hot up and is entitled rather charmingly 'Main Courses and Meat Dishes'.
br /'Desserts and Puddings' is the grand finale and 6oz Butter meets a sticky end when he comes face to face with half a dozen pancakes.
br / I really enjoyed Gordans sci-fi thriller, but the only criticism I would have is that I didn't like reading the characters names at the beginning of each chapter and would have prefered it if we were left to stumble across them as we read. That said it is a cracking read, beautifully illustrated and I will be the first in line to see the movie version at the cinema, when it is released tomorrow.
br /Top marks Gordie Pie.
Nice and easy March 25, 2009
Hoover (UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great book of simple recipes. Some of his previous books have been complex and for the more ambitious home cook, but this is great traditional stuff, much more akin to the accessible Jamie Oliver style. Nice to see him celebrating British recipes too, given his classical French training, though of course the depth of his skill informs everything he does. I've bought a shoulder of lamb for the weekend...
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