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Roast Chicken And Other Stories
by Simon Hopkinson
from Hyperion

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Editing Makes a Difference
  I love to cook and try new things. I've learned Indian cooking through cookbooks...good thing. Although I love the layout and concept of the book...if I didn't know better there would have been no onions in my curry! "Mrs. Pringle's Kofta Curry" is delicious. However, there are no instructions about adding back those deliciously browned onions and garlic to the pan. Editing is everything in cookbooks. Careful please!

• A delight
  Any one who loves to cook and eat will enjoy this charming, useful, and even -- culinarily speaking -- inspiring book.

• A celebration of simple home cooking
  Simon Hopkinson is a venerable English chef and newspaper columnist who enjoys pushing for simple, home-y food. This cookbook, originally published in London in 1994, is a small but useful collection of Hopkinson's favorite recipes, along with personal stories and asides to accompany each one.
  My husband is a retired chef and his most basic meals are my favorites. Not that I don't love the rolled and stuffed game hens or the complex patés, but nothing compares to his beef lentil soup and his... more info

• Not a novel
  I read an article about this book and thought it was a novel; only when I ordered and received did I realize it was cookbook ( I am kinda slow ); however, wonderful and all encompassing cookbook which covers a tremendous range of foods with easily understood instructions; who would have thought what a cup of red wine vinegar would do to a stewing chicknen!

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