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Cook: Smart, Seasonal Recipes for Hungry People
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Product Description
"Cook" is the exciting new book from up-and-coming chef and food writer Thomasina Miers, winner of BBC 2's "Masterchef 2005". This brand new recipe book shows us exactly why she won. With her natural passion for flavours and ingredients Thomasina offers us an irresistible range of seasonal recipes that reflect her personality and love of all things real, hearty and above all delicious. With no hint of pretension, Thomasina's approach is relaxed and unfussy yet undeniably smart and modern, using locally-sourced, seasonal ingredients, and sticking to her firm belief in free-range and organic produce wherever possible. Thomasina's flair and experience lend her food both excitement and conviction. Add to that, her natural understanding of what makes great food and you have a truly winning recipe. The vibrancy, richness and diversity of her recipes comes from her assimilation of ideas and influences from all over the world, from the people and places she has encountered along the way, from London to Mexico. Whether you want starters, lazy brunches, a hearty main of meat, fish or vegetables, or a sumptuous pudding, "Cook" caters for every course. From moreish bruschettas to roast partridge with mascarpone and thyme, from the perfect BLT to chilli chocolate truffles, Tommi has it covered. If you love incredible flavours and interesting, quality ingredients made into real, easygoing food, then "Cook" is the book you need to feed yourself and your friends.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #99257 in Books
- Published on: 2006-10-02
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
Editorial Reviews
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"Thomasina seems to be knocking up delightful dishes for the sheer joy of it - and why not? Her passion for robust and sometimes exotic flavours is balanced by a sound nose for the best seasonal and local ingredients. She's just as good at shopping as she is at cooking. The result: her food is delicious, and her recipes are an uncomplicated treat." Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall "This is a book for cooks whose love of good food extends to sourcing, cooking, eating, sharing and dreaming - about good food. Tommi Miers may be young, cool and clever, but she's also the original earth-mother, ladle in hand."Prue Leith "This has an excellent selection of recipes. Thomasina is an original and talented cook, definitely one to watch" The Bookseller Praise for Soup Kitchen: "A great addition to your cookbook collection" BBC Good Food "Liquid Gold" Delicious
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
'her food is delicious, and her recipes are an uncomplicated
treat.'
About the Author
Thomasina Miers is a cook, food writer and winner of BBC2's Masterchef Goes Large 2005. Her passion for food has taken her around the world, to experience all facets of the industry from cheese-making in West Cork to opening a large restaurant and cocktail bar in Mexico City. She has also worked as a chef at the Petersham Cafe at Petersham Nurseries with Skye Gyngell and previously edited the highly successful cookery book Soup Kitchen. Thomasina is currently focussing on her writing - she has recently contributed a regular recipe column to The Times and Waitrose Food Illustrated. COOK is her first independent book.
Customer Reviews
Simple, delicious
I adored Thomasina when she was on Masterchef because of her unwilting passion for exciting flavours and the sheer joy she exuded when using any influence to create delicious, simple food. This book brings all of that back to life and it is a joy to have in my kitchen. It has a mass of recipes that she clearly loves, and lots that I'm not going to find neatly packaged in all the other celebrity chef cookbooks because they are her own, truly original recipes. This book is going to provide me with inspiration whenever I am looking for something interesting and original.
Easy to follow receipes from the Masterchef Winner
Having made some of the receipes from this book already(all of which turned out fine)I can definately recommend this book. The author writes with an obvious passion for her subject;this made me want to be more adventurous and try some receipes that I wouldn't have tried before. If you're looking for something fresh from a cookery book then this is for you.
Naked LadyChef?
Pity the production team have modelled this so closely on the Jamie Oliver books - pictures of the author 'in lively real life situations!', lists of must-have staple ingredients etc. - because the idle browser in a bookshop may well pick this up and dismiss it as a rip-off. WHICH WOULD BE A HUGE PITY! Thomasina Miers has got some lovely, interesting ideas and tons of enthusiasm, as anyone who saw her on Masterchef Goes Large 2005 will remember. These are recipes I can't wait to try and I'll be definitely buying this for other people this Xmas. I simply think that she, and her writing, deserve a more individualistic/better looking book, more confidently designed around her own considerable virtues. She's an original!
