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Real Food | 
 enlarge | Author: Nigel Slater
Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £18.99
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 7513
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1841151440
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781841151441
ASIN: 1841151440
Publication Date: April 6, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Observer columnist Nigel Slater has chosen his eight favourite foods and sculpted a sensational cookbook around them. And what are they? Potatoes, chicken, sausages, garlic, bread, cheese, ice-cream and chocolate. For each of the eight he offers a selection of recipes, some from friends and colleagues, including Alastair Little, Rowley Leigh, Peter Gordon and Nigella Lawson. As he explains in the introduction, "By Real Food I mean big-flavoured, unpretentious cooking. Good ingredients made into something worth eating. Nothing fancy. Nothing extravagant. Nothing careless or slapdash. Just nice, uncomplicated food--be it chicken roasted with olive oil, lemon and basil or simply a big, fat mushroom baked in garlic butter and stuffed inside a soft bap." And that's pretty much what he's achieved, though he does let himself go on occasion with recipes like Deep-fried Ice Cream and Mincemeat Parcels. The book is peppered with short essays on ingredients that bear Slater's trademark dry wit. He is definitely one of Britain's best food writers and his collaboration with photographer Jonathan Lovekin marks this book out from the crowd.
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 Love it! April 24, 2009
L. N. Coulter
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Not only are there a bunch of great recipes in this, the way it's been written makes it real joy to read to. It really gets your mouth watering!! These are recipes to use everyday! Not like recipes from those posh cook books you buy and hardely use. There's not a recipe in this book that I don't like!!
Real Food February 7, 2009
A. Dickens (England)
Nigel Slater produces some of the best cookbooks around. Although he is not as well-known as some of the celebrity chefs, his recipies are full of flavour, concentrating on good quality ingredients and easy to follow methods that help you get the best from them. This is a great book that has provided many a tasty meal. I also recommend "Real Cooking" by the same author.
 Slater Shmater June 28, 2008
Thomas Hall
4 out of 17 found this review helpful
I used to really like Nigel Slater's food page in the Observer when I was a student in the 90's, so I decided to pick up a book of his. I must say I was pretty disappointed - Nigel still writes with an undiminished passion about ingredients and flavours, but the recipies in here are frankly lame. If you cook everything in butter and double cream of course it's going to taste good! And thanks for the recipe for a baked potato. What really turned me off was the recipe for a rump steak sandwich in which Mr Slater admits that he "loathes brown beef". What cook in their right mind "loathes" brown beef for god's sake? Doesn't that discount half of the classic French and Italian dishes amongst others? You're a fake Nigel, go back to journalism.
I Love It January 11, 2008
ilex (Scotland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love the fact that once again Nigel Slater has delivered a book easy to read, entertaining and useful! (I already own his "30 minute Cook" book - though I prefer "Real Food" layout and content!)
My boyfriend bought me this book this week and I have already been into it twice! I love the way Nigel Slater divides up his book...not the usual Starters, Fish, Meat, etc courses, but into subject headings such as Bread, Garlic, Cheese, etc! Wonderful! Buy this book if you want to create good dishes that will wow your guests without breaking the bank or turning yourself into sweating maniac! :-)
 Great book let down by poor quality manufacture December 16, 2007
Mr. Russell Scott (Elstead, Surrey United Kingdom)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book contents is excellent. I can cook a bit but decided to start cooking more and bought a load of new books, this is my favorite. It is nicely laid out into sections on chicken, potatoes, sausage, garlic, bread etc and some good pictures in places to let you see what it should come out like. There is a clear nicely written intro to each section to get you enthused and very easy to follow recipes. I jumped straight in with the Thai green curry that turned out really nice.
The only down side of this book for me was that after cooking with it once the cover started coming away from the spine. Maybe I got a duff one? Either way it is going back and I will order the hardback version or another copy of this one as I do want a copy!
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