Winner of the André Simon Food Book Award. A personal cookery lesson from one of our finest cookery teachers. Nowadays we seem to know a lot about food, but much less about actual cooking. In Master It, Rory O’Connell will teach you simple but essential skills to make you a truly good cook. At the heart of his approach are good ingredients, carefully prepared, and used in recipes that are tried, tested, carefully measured, and full of the essential tips and details that will make your dishes a success. Each chapter will teach you a particular technique – preparing a soup, roasting meat, making biscuits – and include a collection of fresh, seasonal recipes to use it in, from wild garlic soup, to roast pork with fennel seeds, chilli and garlic, to caramel and almond thins.
It's a long while since I have come across a book which taught me more about cooking and using ingredients as well and as clearly as this. as someone who cooks and has a large library of food/cook books this is really a treat, he has a lovely voice, clear but never peachy.
Wonderfully written,just as if he was standing beside you each step through the recipe. The only regret was the publisher did not include a conversion chart for us in USA. Lucky for me Google found one for me.