The Book Depository Tender by Nigel Slater
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Description: Tender : Hardback : Harper Collins Publishers : 9780007325214 : 0007325215 : 06 Sep 2011 : With over 300 recipe ideas and many wonderful stories from the fruit garden, Tender: Volume II - A cook's guide to the fruit garden is the definitive guide to cooking with fruit from the presenter of BBC One's Simple Cooking. The Book Depository Tender by Nigel Slater - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Product ID: 9780007325214
MPN: 0007325215
GTIN: 9780007325214
Author: Thomas Holt
Rating: 5
Review: Tender: Volume II does for fruit what the first volume did for vegetables. Here are the author's experiences as an amateur fruit grower, professional cookery writer, and domestic cook par excellence. The book's 1200+ pages contain hundreds of recipes and suggested variations - with possibly a third being the marriage of fruit with savoury dishes. But, Nigel loves a good pud! So, the bulk of this volume is about pies, tarts, cakes, fools, puddings - you name it. The entries are organised alphabetically, with each containing a history of the fruit, how to grow it, varieties, flavour combinations, storage, cooking properties, and then the recipes. But, don't get the idea that this book is limited to what can be grown easily in the UK. Plenty of exotics are covered too - I live in Australia at the moment and find it very relevant. There are realistic but attractive photographs, and the balance of photos to text seems perfect to me - rare in a modern cookbook. How will this book sit with your other cookbooks? The last couple of decades has seen a mushrooming in the UK of books from "celebrity" chefs. Some of these are good, most are a waste of money. The problem is that being a chef is hard work, and most lack the language skills to write good prose. So, the books are often ghosted and every other page is a glossy photograph which bears no resemblance to the product of either a commercial or a domestic kitchen. Nigel, on the other hand, follows in the finest traditions of British cookery writers - the likes of Elizabeth David and Jane Grigson. Using high literary craftsmanship, these authors produced entertaining cookbooks you can read from cover to cover, as well as having lasting value as a kitchen and shopping reference. The simple fact is that you can't, and shouldn't try to, produce restaurant food at home - restaurants are factories. You can do much better - delivering nourishing, attractive fare with a highly personal and skilled touch. With the "Tender" series, Nigel has fulfilled all his earlier promise. These are original, lasting classics; to stand with David's "French Provincial Cookery" and Grigson's "English Food" - books that lesser writers get their ideas from!
Author: belles lettres
Rating: 4
Review: This is a really beautiful book which I have bought as a birthday present for my sister. Nigel Slater's writing is fantastic as ever, and I am going to get my own copy soon. However...the sticker on the dust cover mentioning his BBC One appearances certainly takes away from the appearances of the book. And it can't be peeled off without ruining the dust cover. Yes, I hope this book gets splattered with all sorts of fruity, jammy juices, but I would rather my sister messed it up, than Amazon or its publisher! Oh, and the book mark / ribbon thing is not attached to the book, just totally loose.
