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Off Duty: The Worlds Greatest Chefs Cook at Home
£11.20
In Off Duty, forty-eight of the world’s top chefs and food writers abandon the heat of the professional kitchen and share their passion for home cooking. Revealing the favorite menus they love to cook for family and friends, they place the emphasis on delicious, straightforward recipes using ingredients and techniques familiar to the home cook. An interview with each chef offers fascinating insights into everything from their favorite piece of cooking gear to what they feed their children. With 144 recipes — 48 starters, 48 main courses and 48 desserts — there is something to suit every mood and every capability level. A sample menu might feature Gary Rhodes’s starter of Toasted Tomato Salad with Melting Gorgonzola and Rocket Leaves or Delia Smith’s Baked Eggs in Wild Mushroom Tartlet. For a meaty main course there is Nigella Lawson’s Shin of Beef Stew with Pasta or Gordon Ramsay’s Calves’ Liver with Sweet and Sour Mushroom and Rocket Marmalade. At-home desserts include Jamie Oliver’s Raspberry and Blackberry Meringue with Hazelnuts, Caramel and Chantilly Cream and Michel Roux’s White Peaches Baked with Honey and Lavender. Off Duty has a range of vegetables, fish and meat dishes to tempt every palate and a roll call of chefs to inspire, day after day. Bringing together today’s top culinary talents,, this collection is a must-have for the home cook.
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by Alexandra Leese
I love Nigella – but found myself loving all the other chefs with their menu cheats, Great book for kitchen cheats pretending to be Nigel or Nigella with a sea bass or two!!!
by le cook sportif
despite the large number of cook books I own already I found
some nice entries and recipies in this one.
My copies (I bought two, one as a present) were in very good condition
by shirley degani
The book came promptly and in excellent condition. I am pleased with my purchase as there are so many chefs to browse through their short but to the point interviews.
There is a vast selection of recipes, a clear index and excellent photography
by GUY
Renowned chef David Nicholls gathers together an impressive array of culinary stars in this collection of menus for the home cook.
Over 50 top chefs and food writers share the menus they love to cook at home for family and friends. Jamie Oliver, Nigella Lawson, Delia Smith, and Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers are just a few of the chefs who invite us into their own home kitchens and share delicious, easy-to-prepare dishes for the home cook, using straightforward ingredients.
Introduced by Gordon Ramsay, this book brings today’s top names in food together in a must-have collection for the home gourmet.
Contributors include:
Jamie Oliver
Gordon Ramsay
Nigella Lawson
Delia Smith
Rick Stein
Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers
Gary Rhodes
Alain Ducasse
Fronted by David Nicholls, whose son Daniel suffered an accident in 2003 which left him paralyzed, proceeds from the book will support spinal cord and stem cell research and development, awareness, and rehabilitation.
by kms
very enjoyable
by Ms. V. Le Breton
A nice hardback to browse. Well presented. Good content.