Best of British I absolutely loved the Great British Menu series, and was delighted to find a book capturing all those wonderful receipes. Some are a little challenging, but if you're passionate about food, you'll relish the opportunity to stretch (and improve) your skills. Our favourites so far are Nick Nairn's venison and Marcus Wareing's amazing custard tart (our guests gave us a round of applause for that one!!). A marvellous book to compliment a marvellous series.
A good complement to an excellent TV series I bought this for my wife for her birthday. The book is well written and importantly the recipes are easy to follow and it's well illustrated. It is good to have a cookery book that gives some background to local and regional produce. This is becoming ever more important as we are beginning to worry about how we all source our food. So it's good that this book lists suppliers and resources at the end of the book. It's also nice to have a cookery book that takes recipes from a variety of chefs. The other... more info
'..the cream of the nation's chefs present the superb variety of regional produce and show you how to cook it at home' `Discover and enjoy the best of British cuisine, as the cream of the nation's chefs present the superb variety of regional produce and show you how to cook it at home.' `Accompanying the BBC2 TV series, `Great British Menu' has over 100 recipes, classic and contemporary, which celebrate the best food from each region.
14 of the nation's finest chefs create original, regionally inspired recipes and pit their culinary wits and skills against each other. Following 8 weeks of intense competition the... more info
watch the recipes quantities I have tried to make Richard Corrigan's soda bread with disastrous results. Something is badly wrong with the quantities. Would suggest you trial the menus in private before using them for dinner parties
