Cooking for Friends: Stylish Recipes with Great Flavour [Hardcover]

Alastair Hendy (Author), David Loftus (Photographer)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 7, 2000

Cooking for Friends by innovative food writer Alastair Hendy is a collection of thoroughly modern recipes that look spectacular but are easy to prepare and totally delicious. Entertaining should be a pleasure not a chore, a chance to set aside the bland convenience food of everyday life and experiment with tasty ingredients and new ideas. Alastair believes that the best way to cook is to choose the best fresh ingredients, and to keep things simple. Here he provides more than 100 recipes, each captured by cutting-edge food photographer David Loftus. This invaluable book will help you create food to delight and impress your guests -- whatever the occasion.

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About the Author

Alastair Hendy is an entirely self-taught cook, beginning at the age of six. His full-time cookery career began when he started contributing to the Mail on Sunday You magazine. Alastair has written for Sainsbury's The Magazine, Waitrose Food Illustrated, BBC Good Food and Guardian Weekend. He contributes to Conran's Live it magazine, is food editor of Livingetc and food writer for The Sunday Times Style magazine. Alastair is also an enveterate traveller, spending much time in India, South-east Asia, Sri Lanka, Europe and Central America, all of which have influenced his eclectic cooking style. For Ryland Peters & Small he has written the four titles in the Fresh in ... series.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small; 1st edition (September 7, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1841720879
• ISBN-13: 978-1841720876
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 9.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,174,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and delicious!!, October 12, 2001

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Lak (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking for Friends: Stylish Recipes with Great Flavour (Hardcover)

Having tried recipes by Alastair Hendy from the Style magazine, I was thrilled to see that he had done a cookbook.

Not only is it beautifully presented,the recipes are simple, easy to follow and taste delicious. They reflect Alastair Hendy's spirit of adventure, in that he has included recipes from his travels abroad in the Middle East, India, Thailand and
other places in the east.

Alastair Hendy may be a self-taught cook but he certainly knows how to combine ingredients to give food a wonderful flavour.

I hope that this is going to be the first book in a long line of cookbooks by Alastair Hendy and if he were to write another, I would the first in line.