The Really Quite Good British Cookbook

This book is fantastic! Not only is it filled with mouthwatering recipes, the information about the chefs and food writers who provided those recipes is also extremely interesting. The book itself is beautiful (and enormous) and its one that you really need to leave out in a prominent position to peruse and drool over. This is not a book to hide in a cupboard.

This is a cookbook for the home cook, giving favourite home recipes from 100 chefs, cooks, food writers and others. A cookbook that covers dishes from the whole world that are easy to make in the British home with ingredients that are readily sourced locally. Recipes that are certainly original, very modern, often have short preparation time and it is full of helpful hints throughout. The interspersed scenic pictures to show the area a particular cook comes from, the bio’s and the pictures of a lot of the cooks add to the uniqueness of this cookbook. What more could interest a family cook today.
Cookbooks are readily available by the score and a lot of people just go on line to find a particular recipe that they want to try, this book goes outside of the think box and takes the reader down unwalked pathways to encourage the home cook to try new ingredients.
Each recipe has been written in a simple easy to read way that encourages success and range from easy to moderate and each recipe ends with a colour picture depicting the look of the final dish. It is a cook book with dual purpose it is both lovely to look at on the shelf, browsing through just to relish the ideas as well as a practical recipe book that has some magnificent unusual recipes. As well as the traditional recipes, which all have a little twist, such as summer pudding, roast beef and trifle it also covers delicacies that are not usually eaten nowadays for example rabbit and pigeon. The use of unusual herbs and items freely available in the wild add to the originality. I am really looking forward to the summer to cook some courgette flowers.
I consider myself a fairly proficient home cook but until I received this book I had never tried nettles and to my amazement they were, as described, delicious. As a hint to anyone collecting these leaves remember to wear protective gloves as I discovered how easily it was to hit the wrong parts and get stung.
As Hardeep Singh Kohli writes in this book - food is communing, bringing people together as that is the centre of all we do in life. I love this book.

Wow, what a book!
There are 100 British chefs, cooks and bakers sharing their favourite recipes, and how! The photographs are beautiful, the instructions are easy to follow and the meals look delicious. They cover breakfast, entrée/snack, fish/seafood, poultry/meat/game, pasta/risotto /sides, and baking/desserts. Nothing like having a fabulous foodie at your fingertips.
But most important a percentage of all sales go to the Trussell Trust - stop UK Hunger, what a great cause.