Customer Reviews

Delia Smith's Winter Collection: 150 Recipes for Winter

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I own most of Delia Smith's cookbooks, gathered on several trips to the UK over the years. They are fantastic. This one in particular deals with winter comfort/warming food - a personal favorite - covering the whole range of recipes, vegetarian and non vegetarian. In addition to starters and main courses, steamed puddings are covered in this book. In the USA they are neglected, but I think that nothing is more wonderful on a cold winter day than a hot pudding to finish a meal - one that has been steaming for hours on the back of the stove. If only more US cookbooks could take as much care presenting complete, consise, and dependable recipes...I find that most US cookbooks just aren't well written and aren't worth the money. All Delia Smith books are well worth owning

This book is excellent for its cooking instruction alone! The Perfect Roast Potatoes recipe is great as is the Chocolate Bread & Butter Pudding. If you like this one, try the Summer Collection!

especially in light of the overshelming popularity of other British "cookery" writers like Nigella, Jamie, Nigel - all of whom only need to be identified by their first names. Anyone who likes them should immediately become familiar with Delia Smith. She might not be as glamerous or as much "fun" to read, but she is definitely as much fun to cook with, and her food is delicious, her writing is clear, her recipes are well-written and very easy to follow guaranteeing excellent results. This book is a good place to start getting to know Delia!

This inspired collection features sophisticated home cooking that will satisfy the heartiest of cold-weather appetites. In addition to tried-and-true British classics updated for today's tastes, it offers many dishes that reflect the enticing and varied flavors of France, Italy, Spain, California, the Caribbean, India, and the Orient. Whether you are a kitchen novice or an experienced cook, you will find this solid, trustworthy volume a welcome addition to your bookshelf.

Also recommended: "Recipes and Remembrances from an Eastern Mediterranean Kitchen," by Sonia Uvezian. This definitive guide is a must for lovers of Mediterranean food! Not only does it contain fascinating text and highly original recipes, it is the first cookbook to document the important contributions American and British writers who lived and traveled in the Levant have made to enhance our understanding of the region's cuisine.

This is one of the best cook books I own. There are so many flavorful, interesting recipies using healthy ingredients in unique ways. Everything I have made has been a hit.

This book is one of many that the writer has produced. She's very popular in Britain, having presented a number of straight forward but impressive TV programs. This book is very good, with a particularly good chocolate bread and butter pudding (to die for!)

Delia Smith is simply wonderful but at times her attempts to save the home cook from overwrought techniques can lead to attempted over-management. I prefer not to have to wade through Smith's directives to "put that pan away now; you don't need it anymore" etc.

At times she contradicts her own charter, calling for, for example, the use of fresh tomatoes in winter - a directive which, the fruit not being in season, is no friend to the cook; the result will be neither flavoursome or cheap. At times Smth's attempts to save the cook from effort are a false economy. Nonetheless, Smith is a wonderful, wonderful, and most giving cook. Her recipes are fabulous and bursting with flavour - at times exquisite, and always, always, unpretentious. As a cook, she is vastly superior to most celebrity chefs, Jamie Oliver included, if not most of all.

I recently lost my copy of this cookbook, and immediately ordered another. The soup recipes alone make this book worth owning, and Delia does a fabulous job of giving clear and easy to follow instructions. A must for anyone who loves cooking.

Comfort Food in the title enticed me to try this, plus the raving about her popularity in Britain spreading to our parts as well.

Trying several of the recipes, I found them to be somewhat basic, bland (except for the Thai inclusions). I loved the Black Bean Chili with Avocado Salsa. But most of the time if I rummage through this one, I'm reminded of similar recipes juiced up by other cooks. Realize for some this approach might be ideal and this would become a solid favorite.