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From: Melbourne, VIC Australia

Joined: December 27th, 2009

About me: I've been cooking for over thirty years, and I can remember the days before EVO, couscous and (ghasp!) microwaves. My cookbook collection reflects this personal and national gastronomic history. My own cooking has actually got simpler over the years, and I can do much of my repertoire without looking at a recipe. But I still love collecting cookbooks, although these days I'm a bit over food porn with great big colour photos - I really prefer food writing to recipes.

Favorite cookbook: The Cook's Companion

Salmon with macaroni from A Year of Good Eating: The Kitchen Diaries III

Simple but delicious. Poaching the fish in 600 ml of cream (that's two bottles), which is then poured over the fish and pasta, sounds richer than it is. This is partly due to the dill in the crumb topping. I... read more >

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Eat - The Little Book of Fast Food

By Nigel Slater
Fourth Estate - 2013

Nigel Slater is one of the great cookery writers of our time. He is a man devoted to the enjoyment of food and his enthusiasm is infectious and inspirational. Just reading him whets the appetite, so skilled is his prose.

This is book is reminiscent of his first, Real Fast Food which was published in 1992. Many of the recipes are wonderfully flexible and there are lots of suggestions for variations. The idea is to rustle up something delicious from whatever you have to hand, and he positively encourages the use of convenience foods like tinned chickpeas, frozen (all-butter) puff pastry and (good quality) butcher's sausages.

The man is my kind of cook.