Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #221467 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Lydia Slater, The Sunday Times
Given added spice by Clee's willingness to take a pop at the top chefs who peddle old wives' tales.

Tom Jaine, The Guardian
It would make the ideal first recipe book for anyone with a bit of a brain.

Matthew Fort
A really useful book for anyone interested in learning about the practical side of cooking.

Customer Reviews

Very good introductory guide to cooking
Very useful book for someone fairly unfamiliar with cooking but who has a degree of intelligence and curiosity. The range of food covered by the book is fairly broad but nothing too unusual - all the basics are covered - although I suppose the pudding section could have been longer. The related blog is also well worth checking out.

must have the goods on his publisher
Does the author's dad have a chum in publishing or something? This book is arch twaddle. Written with all the comic talent of Tom Parker Bowles it tells of the hapless male kitchen ingenue who can now tell us what he knows. Things the beginner wouldn't want to know and nothing the more experienced don't already know. All told in the "self effacing" style of radio 4 humour at its most lacklustre. Avoid.

Kitchen genius
I was given DON'T SWEAT THE AUBERGINE for Christmas - a perfect choice - and found it fascinating enough to skip meals (for a bit, then I got hungry and found it an inspirational way to eat through my store cupboard). I love the logical way the author talks about food, and the way you can practially smell the finished creation. Clee clearly adores eating tasty stuff and his unusual book is the result of years of making sure that being in the kitchen ensures he appreciates dinner. For foodies who love reading, this book is as essential as balsamic vinegar.