Delia Smith's Summer Collection: 140 Recipes for Summer

Delia Smith's Summer Collection: 140 Recipes for Summer

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Delia Smith's Summer Collection was the most phenomenal number-one bestseller in British publishing history, with more than one million hardcovers sold. Now this Martha Stewart from across the pond has adapted her clear, simple, inspirational recipes for American cooks. Delia Smith's cookbook is a celebration of summer and all its glorious ingredients. She has distilled th...more
Hardcover, 224 pages
Published October 4th 1993 by St. Martin's Press
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Susan Bennett
Delia Smith is thoroughly wonderful. Her recipes are packed full of flavour, are delicious and unpretentious. However, sometimes her attempts to help the home cook go awry. In an attempt to save on washing up, her chicken cacciatore recipe calls for half-cooked chicken to be left on the bench for 40 minutes. Good God! That might work in a colder climate (I have no idea, I wouldn't try it!) but I'd suggest it's not worth finding out the hard, possibly DEAD way. Similarly, forget no-stir risotto....more
Deb
Bought this book and her Winter Collection for $1 each at a library sale and have made two recipes so far nd have many more tagged. Some simple but unique recipes in this one.
Jagati Bagchi
the dainty sketches of flowers are an added pleasure
John
You too can get coronary heart disease by eating Delia's suggestions....

Deffinitely not for the faint-hearted or those on a low cholestoral diet.

As much as I like Delia... she isn't very "pc" these days.
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Delia Smith CBE is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style. She is the UK's best-selling cookery author, with more than 21 million copies sold.

Smith is also famous for her role as joint majority shareholder at Norwich City F.C. Her partner in the shareholding is her husband, Michael Wynn-Jones. Her role at the club has attracted vary...more
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