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Delicious Recipes are dotted around Daisy Garnett's varied experiences of life, food, friendship, and cooking and acknowledge eating's connections with life beyond the basic function of fuel: sustenance, joy, love, companionship, comfort, learning, living. The colourful Daisy's stories chart, I think, her growing up and parallel her gradual maturity in cooking. The recipes themselves and Garnett's matter-of-fact, this-is-what-I-found presentation (plus advice on equipment when relevant) invite the reader to have a go... more info
A different kind of cookbook My shelves are full of cookbooks, but it's very rare that I read one from start to finish. Cooking Lessons is a bit different in that it is the story of Daisy Garnett's journey from thinking that food is just something to keep the energy levels up to becoming absolutely passionate about food, both cooking and eating. It's quite wittily written and very easy to read. Some of it, such as when she is sailing to Europe, is in the form of a diary, others are more autobiographical prose. Scattered thoughout... more info
Enjoyable Reading For Anyone Who Loves To Cook I really enjoyed reading this book. The author describes her journey to discovering her love of cooking starting from when she was on a boat, sailing across the Atlantic with four men and elected to do the cooking and her attempt to roast a chicken - something she had never done before. She describes her first cooking experiences and how over time, and perseverance, she learnt to love the art of cooking. The book is filled with recipes, hints and tips that Daisy Garnett has discovered over the years.... more info
A book of wisdom Yes - it has recipes in it. Yes - it's about food. But this is a book about so much more, interpreted through the medium of food. It is full of Garnett's warmth and wisdom: the feelings that food gives us; the binding it makes between family and friends; the creative satisfaction of the cook; the joy of giving pleasure; and the obsessiveness that is close to the surface in most of us. I probably won't do many of the recipes. They tend to be a bit overcomplicated for me, requiring special... more info
