The Cookery Year: With Over 200 Seasonal Recipes
The Cookery Year: With Over 200 Seasonal Recipes: member book reviews
moomin_mama from ,
Lovely to browse through, the recipes are not as daunting as they first appear and can often be simplified, although for me this is almost a coffee-table book rather than a cookbook, due to it's size and weight and the fact that there's not much here for vegetarians - most of the vegetable recipes consist of accompaniments, a few contain pork of some sort, and many rely on hard-to-find ingredients (sea kale, swiss chard).
The other sections are a lot better, but I don't eat meat and I'm cutting out fish. This leaves the puddings, which are, not surprisingly, the best bit of the book.
A seasonal cookbook (chapters correspond to months or the year, starting with March), you'll be disappointed if you think this means a more eco-friendly approach to ingredients (food miles, sustainability, etc). The fish section doesn't consider fish stocks, and in this case 'seasonal' doesn't just mean native produce - it includes foreign imports.
Considering the size, price and production values of this book, you'd expect pictures of all the dishes. Not so, which is a big disappointment because Gary Rhodes' cooking is, for me, sheer food porn.
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