Masterchef Cookbook

A wide range of mouth watering dishes - some of the very best from the series. Only one little gripe - it would have been useful to have a photograph for every delight. But perhaps half the fun is in creating your own unique designs! Thoroughly recommended

As a fan of the MasterChef series, I was pleasantly surprised to find this book. Wonderful recipes with valuable MasterTips (little sidebars explaining some basic technique or product). The recipe descriptions are very clear to me. Too bad not every recipe is accompanied by a picture, on the other hand, this way there is more room for more recipes. If you're a MasterChef fan, you'll love this book - it's a trip down memorylane. And if you're not, you will still love the recipes!

The smiling faces of John and Gregg adorn the durable hardboard cover which opens to 400 high quality shiny pages, spilt over main chapters:-

* Starters
* Vegetables & Fish
* Poultry
* Meat
* Game
* Desserts

sandwiched between individual forewords from the 4 judges:-

* John Torode
* Gregg Wallace
* Michael Roux Jr.
* Monica Galetti

and a 14-page index.

The last page lists the contributing chefs and the 'inspired by' recipes are attributed accordingly, a few to celebrities, based on the original dishes and written by Amy Carter.

Each chapter has a simple two page opening, a brightly coloured page on the left and the title with a simple snapshot photo of one of the recipes, then straight into the first recipe without further ado.

Each recipe is well laid out with the colourful title in capitals at the very top of the page then the accreditation, followed by the prep. &... Read more