On reading, the book proves much than a bit eccentric. It is divided into seasons, but the recipes chosen for each are often inappropriate, or even impossible. Then I tried a couple of recipes. One was OK, but not really worth the trouble. One was very good (a courgette/zucchini soup) but not really a summer dish, and all the fresh flavour of a courgette out of the garden, even an overgrown one, was lost; it would be great in the autumn/ winter, using those commercial courgettes that seem to go on forever - and it used a very clever and effective technique that I've never even seen suggested before. And the third was a disaster, with the character of two often used, very successful dishes being lost in the mess. It looks like being one of those cookbooks where you find a couple of recipes that you find satisfactory and that work with your life, not one of those that you use until it falls to bits and then tape it back together.
Even though there are recipes for nettles, which I've never seen sold, it does not really seem to be a book for those of us who garden, rather than shop. Having read, and then reread the introduction, I finished suspicious that these were dishes that he made and sold at his local farmers' market. I'd have been delighted to buy most of them, but making them is a different question. And I am sure that, like many others with their own vegetables, I am always looking for different ways to deal with a given season's overabundant crop, with not too much additional time needed and the flavour still at its best. This is not that book.
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Recipes that really work-on every level.
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 7 giugno 2020
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Root, Stem,Leaf, Flower is a beautiful tome, full of wonderful recipes, thoughtful prose, elegant verse and , best of all, inspiration!
That probably sounds a tad over the top but stay with me. This cookbook is more than just a cookbook. It's a doorway on to a world of calm, hedonistic pleasures. It brings the caress of nature into your kitchen.The photographs of the dishes made me want to rush out and replicate them in my own tiny galley. To share them with my loved ones and marvel at the sophistication of flavour that Gill manages to incorporate in every mouthful.
I spent the first 48 hours squirreled away reading and rereading the book, absorbing the inspiration and planning my assault.
The new potatoes, fennel and pesto dish was to die for. Who knew that so few simple ingredients could bring such pleasure. Every mouthful was an explosion of delight. This dish has already earned a place in my repertoire!
If you buy only one cookbook this year make it this one. I am confident that it will soon be a well thumbed and stained addition to your library.
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AN ABSOLUTE TRIUMPH
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 31 maggio 2020
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Recensito nel Regno Unito il 31 maggio 2020
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This is the first cookery book that has actually made me emotional.
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 12 agosto 2020