Cooking for Friends
By Gordon Ramsay
RRP $54.99
Synopsis
Gordon lives life in the fast lane, travelling the world to foster his many hugely successful business enterprises and to film his highly acclaimed TV series. But, despite the commitments of a busy work life, he has always believe that families should sit arounf their tables to eat together as much as possible.
Away from the high-octane energy of the professional kitchen, Gordon's home is a relaxed family affair, where cooking is fun and everyone gets involved in preparing food for family and friends.
His latest cookbook gathers together over 100 inspiring and well-constructed recipes wihich everyone will enojoy cooking for their friends and family, including: Chorizo, broad bean and mint couscous; Scallop brochettes with coriander and chilli butter; Smoked salmon and horseradish cream tarts; and Toffee and chocolate steamed pudding.
The recipes embody Gordon's strongly held opinion that we should support local producers and farmers' markets, that we should cook with seasonal fresh ingredients which haven't travelled miles to reach our plates and that we should celebrate the wealth of regional dishes available to us from Cornish crab soup to Bakewell tarts.
Gordon shares the dishes that he loves to cook (and eat) when he's off duty. With chapters covering Hot and Cold Soups; Pasta and Grains' Fish ans Shellfish; Meat and Poultry; Pies and Tarts; Vegetables and Salads; Puddings and Ices and Coffee anc Chocolate, each recipe is introduced with an insight into why he has chosen it and includes tips on how to re-create it perfectly. With emphasis on simplicity for stunning results, the majority of the recipes are short and easy to cook.
This beautiful book has been created by one of Britain's top designers, in tandem with and amazing young photographer. While food is kind in this book, sprinkled as it is with candid photos of Gordon and the family, this book allows you to share his love of life and the good things in it.
About the Author
Gordon Ramsay's radical career change at seventeen, from footballer to chef, led to the awakening of an exceptional talent. He is now the holder of an extraordinary eleven Michelin stars, for his restaurants in London and New York, and is at the head of a food empire, with restaurants in places as far afield as Tokyo and Prague.
He has produced a number of best-selling cookbooks, published a hugely successful autobiography, Humble Pie, an starred in a stream of successful television series, including the award-winning Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Hell's Kitchen and The F Word.
Scottish by birth, Gordon was brought up in England after his parents moved south to Straford-upon-Avon. In 2006, he was awarded an OBE for services to the hospitality industry.
Review
More often than not, celebrity cook books are filled with complex dishes requiring expensive or hard to come by ingredients - entertaining and beautiful to look at but somewhat impractical. Cooking for Friends is NOT one of those books!
This is Gordon Ramsay tamed and domesticated for home use - presenting tasty, easy to follow recipes made from readily available ingredients.
Cooking for Friends is packed full of deliciously inspiring photography and Gordon's anecdotes throughout give it that 'personal' touch. I highly recommend this publication for all enthusiastic amateur chefs.
Reviewed by: Franciska
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