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The River Cottage Family Cookbook | 
 enlarge | Authors: Hugh Fearnley-whittingstall, Fizz Carr
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 9456
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 415
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.7 x 1.6
ISBN: 0340826363
EAN: 9780340826362
ASIN: 0340826363
Publication Date: October 10, 2005
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 The River Cottage Family Cookbook August 27, 2008
This book is fantastic, I can not fault it one bit. Hugh and Fizz create a world where it is easy and fun to cook home made produce. My friends are often asking me how I know how to make so many good things, and its all in this cook book! Home made pasta, Who else actually does that anymore? Yet its easy and simple to do, all kinds of home made breads, cakes, its just brilliant!
A good book for beginners, children and everyone else August 16, 2008
Yes, this book does contain recipes that are too basic for people with decent cooking skills, but there are recipes for those people too. It's the mixture that makes it a true family cookbook - you can hardly start your children off cooking with complicated recipes. All the recipes are presented in a very clear way and easy to follow. What I realy like about this book are the projects that are included in most chapters. They really make it possible to teach children how food is or used to be produced (make your own pasta, cream cheese, grow your own potatoes or little salad garden on very little space ...) or just suggest ideas for having some fun, for example at a children's party (have a pancake race, create your own icecream maker ...). Many recipes have step-by-step photographs to help you along, plus serving suggestions to vary the recipes. I quite enjoy this book, although I do also cook from Gary Rhodes' or Gordon Ramsay's books and obviously am not a beginner.
Great family cookbook March 26, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having two small children I was looking for a cook book that would be both fun and educational and help me as a parent to get their hands dirty in the kitchen with some real cooking. I like Hugh's presentation style and enthusiasm for food which comes across strongly in his TV programmes and I was curious to see whether this translated into this book. Quite simply it does. To my surprise I also found myself getting seriously back into cooking and within a few weeks have cooked quite a few of the recipes with my children with great success.
A few people have commented negatively about the simplicity of the recipes in this book, but lets not forget the intended purpose and audience.
Also if you are looking for an encyclopaedic reference cookbook of family cooking this isn't it either, there are many other books that can do that for you. This cookbook contains a well chosen selection of recipes covering a good range of food types, a great way for me as a parent to try out new things for my children to eat with solid, fun recipes that they can get involved with.
Very highly recommended.
Good cook books October 17, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having watched Hugh's series on living in Dorset, where we live, I am already a big fan of his cooking and this book did not disapoint.
I has been a super book to dip into and choose recipes to cook both on my own and with my children. What I particularly like is that the style doesn't patronise children and spreads the recipes between sweet dishes and main courses. The recipes are good for children to follow and presume that they are going to cook proper food not just fairy cakes.
I would really recommend this book to both families and adults, it's a good read (and beautiful to look at and handle) and the recipes work well. What more could you want!
fantastic book and recipies August 13, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is for every budding cook from begginers to more talented experts! The recipies are fantastic and truly inspirational, they make you want to cook. I now enjoy cooking when i get home. The insite into how meat gets to your plate is interesting and the information about where to buy decent meat and how to spot a good buy is really helpful. will definatly buy another book from his collection!
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