I'm an enthusaistic amateur with a wide variety of cookbooks covering many styles. This however, is one that I regularly return to. John Burton Race and Angela Harnett have written in a very open and easy style, but more importantly, the portion sizes, cooking times and temperatures are spot on which is an area that I find many other authors are weak with... also this isn't what might be termed "extravagant" restuarant food, it's just a great selection of fantastic quality, inventive yet achievable recipes. Thoroughly recommended, even if the book title is terrible!
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I bought this book together with French Leave after watching the Series. French Leave was fantastic!
Coming Home however didn't have the same authentic feel to it, I even dare to say this looks like a ghost writer or at least a very influential co-writer.
The recipes are none the less nice, the text however isnt't; I haven't counted exactly but this is one over exclamation marked Book!!!!
I'd say buy French Leave and leave this one to save money and buy one of Hugh's books (preferably the meat book....:)
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The recipies in this book are wonderful. All are authentic, well researched, occasionally a challenge, but always worth the effort. John Burton Race is a wonderful chef and his love of food is infectious, but he is no writer. The prose that accompanies the recipies is risible. No idea or character is allowed to develop, the whole year he spent in France is told in the sketchiest fashion imaginable and is an incredibly boring read. But the food is amazing!
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The recipies in this book are wonderful. All are authentic, well researched, occasionally a challenge, but always worth the effort. John Burton Race is a wonderful chef and his love of food is infectious, but he is no writer. The prose that accompanies the recipies is risible. No idea or character is allowed to develop, the whole year he spent in France is told in the sketchiest fashion imaginable and is an incredibly boring read. But the food is amazing!
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The recipies in this book are wonderful. All are authentic, well researched, occasionally a challenge, but always worth the effort. John Burton Race is a wonderful chef and his love of food is infectious, but he is no writer. The prose that accompanies the recipies is risible. No idea or character is allowed to develop, the whole year he spent in France is told in the sketchiest fashion imaginable and is an incredibly boring read. But the food is amazing!
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The recipies in this book are wonderful. All are authentic, well researched, occasionally a challenge, but always worth the effort. John Burton Race is a wonderful chef and his love of food is infectious, but he is no writer. The prose that accompanies the recipies is risible. No idea or character is allowed to develop, the whole year he spent in France is told in the sketchiest fashion imaginable and is an incredibly boring read. But the food is amazing!
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Brilliant book and DOG, you'll find the best ever recipe for Cafe de Paris within it. The man's a cycle path, but boy can he knock out the goods.
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