The Food I Love: Beautiful, Simple Food to Cook at Home

by Neil Perry

A collection of two hundred recipes by an Australian celebrity chef draws on Mediterranean traditions to provide for every course and meal of the day, in a volume complemented by kitchen wisdom, culinary lore, and a wealth of food combination tips. 30,000 The Food I Perry, Neil/ Carter, Earl (PHT) Pocket BooksPublication 2006/09/19Number of 439Binding HARDCOVERLibrary of 2006040688

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food, Reference

440 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2005

Reviews

[Tra · Rating 4 out of 5]

As an absolute donkey 101 cook, I love this book as it’s divided by section (breakfast, soups, roasting as an example). The vegetables section at the back is particularly good.

It’s no RecipeTin Eats in simplifying steps and (more importantly) forewarning noobs like me against petty crimes while cooking, but I can see it as becoming a decent reference text for me that saves me the trouble of sifting through five contradictory answers that Google might throw up for a quick question/ recipe.

But so many sections start with generic as pars that go something like “everyone loves sandwiches” “I’ve eaten veggies all my life” and honestly, could have done with an edit.And so many photos are of UNCOOKED food — boiled pasta with a hunk of cheese on top in the pasta section no sauce, a giant cut of meat WRAPPED in cloth, dead fish and like. Why not show us actual photos of the recipes esp for the ones that look so good!

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of mostly simple recipes that highlight the beauty of food's subtle tastes as it avoids masking them with excessive sauces/spices/fat/salt, etc. I also appreciated the general knowledge about cooking methods, conventions, and food groups (meats, shellfish, eggs etc.) Wonderful. :-)