400 Best-Ever Soups [Hardcover]

Anne Sheasby (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 7, 2006

Over 400 mouthwatering recipes for soups, broths, chowders, bisques, consommes, gumbos and laksas from all over the world.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Anne Sheasby spent several years working as a professional home economist within the food industry in a variety of roles before embarking on a successful freelance career in 1991 as a cookery writer and home economist. Anne is the author of many published cookery books, covering a wide variety of subjects, and has been a consultant cookery editor on many more. She has also written for national magazines and regularly works with leading companies within the food industry. Anne is a member of the prestigious Guild of Food Writers and the Institute of Consumer Sciences incorporating Home Economics in the UK.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 512 pages
• Publisher: Anness (March 7, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0754816532
• ISBN-13: 978-0754816539
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,432 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Soup Book!, September 4, 2006

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Denise H (Chesterfield, NJ) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 400 Best-Ever Soups (Hardcover)

I love this book. Its loaded with pictures of each soup. The ingredients are all easy to find. The recipes are 4-6 servings, so you can make a small batch easily or double it for larger batches. Definately worth 5 stars. I just made my first soup and its delicious. This book is going to get me through the long cold winter with yummy, warming soups.

You will definately enjoy this book. Even though I have only made one soup as of this writing, I can just tell that the layout of the book, the easy to following instructions, and pictures make this book a great buy!

Denise, Chesterfield NJ

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best ever lives up to it's title, May 20, 2006

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Sonia Martinez "foodiesleuth" (Big Island of Hawaii) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 400 Best-Ever Soups (Hardcover)

The book contains a complete guide to ingredients and how to use
them. It also gives step-by-step instructions for making your own
stocks from vegetables, chicken, beef, fish and shellfish. There are also instructions on making the creative garnishes they show
throughout. At the bottom of every recipe you will find a the
complete nutritional information listed.

The Contents:
Introduction, which is quite thorough and then a listing of and information on:
Vegetables, legumes, meat & poultry, fish, shellfish, pasta &
noodles, herbs & spices, other flavorings, equipment & techniques, making stocks, thickening soups and garnishes.

Light & Refreshing Soups, Smooth Vegetable Soups, Chuncky Vegetable Soups, Legume Soups, Pasta & Noodle Soups, Chicken & Duck Soups, Meat Soups, Fish Soups, Shellfish Soups

One of the features I appreciate very much is that they show you with photos, such things as how to clean and prepare ingredients, such as raw prawns or squid.....not that I would ever prepare squid...but there you have it if you need it! ;-)

My first try from this book was the Castillian Garlic Soup - I already have several recipes for garlic soup from different regions of Spain, but this one wins overall....!

No step is taken for granted, each recipe in the book will guide you all the way from begining to end, so whether you're a newbie in the kitchen or an experienced cook, it guarantees the end results to be spectacular.

Except that the books are so big and heavy to carry around, I do like this series of Hermes House cookbooks very much. I have resorted to making copies of the pages where the recipes I'm interested in are located and take that to the kitchen instead.

CASTILLIAN GARLIC SOUP

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, December 13, 2008

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Gabriel Ostriker "Climber" (Boston) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 400 Best-Ever Soups (Hardcover)

Since my fiancee and I received this book a year ago for Christmas, it has revolutionized our cooking. We now find that we use up all the bowls in the cupboard before we even fill half of the dishwasher. It's a real problem! Seriously, though, the soups in this book are fantastic. So far we've made fifteen or twenty of them, and I think there was only one we didn't care for. Several of them have been among the best soups we've ever had. The book would be worth the price for the lamb and pumpkin soup alone. Just superb. I'm now buying copies to give for Christmas this year.