Excellent book Rose Prince's book combines exciting recipes with excellent advice on buying and using good quality ingredients. She tackles issues such as intensive farming and the dominance of supermarkets in the UK, offering practical advice on how to eat economically without sacrificing quality and welfare. This book should be read by those that claim not to be able to afford good quality food. A revolution in shopping and eating habits.
About time we all shopped this way..... I have had this book for a year, I love it actually, although not so much for the recipes - many of which are not particularly to my taste , but because it really has changed the way I shop, cook and eat. I now keep chickens, make my own bread and stock (which is perfectly tasty) and buy most of my meat and veg from local farm shops, which makes fantastic economic sense- because if you follow Rose's advice to the letter it really is cheaper if you buy meat locally at source and in bulk and far tastier, and... more info
Neither One Thing or the Other It would be fair to state that we collect cookery books (we cook semi-professionally) and that we are also very interested in food politics & production. So this book really should fit nicely onto the shelf, but it doesn't. The problem is that the collection of recipies contained herein is nothing particularly spectacular while the writing on "food issues" is really too shallow to be of much interest. For the latter, the works of Fearnley-Whittingstall, Collin Tudge, Felicity Lawrence, Graham... more info
Faintly Praiseworhy Nice idea but just another London posho trying to con us into believing chicken bones make good stock, they don't not even if they died of old age after a lifetime of organic grains and their own back yard. I know, I was raised in the country.
High time we had a book to take us through thrift without making us buy unwaxed lemons and superaged Parmigiano so we can scatter the last of our poilane loaf over spaghetti.
