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Favorite Food at Home: Delicious Comfort Food from Ireland's Most Famous Chef

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Rachel Allen turned out to be my favourite chef by far... I discovered her just by chance when I got Home Cooking (100% outstanding) when in London. I knew nothing about her. Now I've become fan number one... What about this book? As always, recipes from Rachel work well, tasty food, clear instructions,etc ;both unique and tradicional recipes are included in her books. You can argue that there are a lot of pictures of her and her family...:) but still this book is simply excellent. A real pitty that Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com...seem to work independently. If one wants to get her other books... only imports are available.

If you're looking for simple, tasty food this is the book for you. It's not mom's fried chicken or aunt tillie's meatloaf, but interesting food, made accessible.

What a nice book of food for the family. This is a bit of a personal quest for me, as I have a couple of picky eaters in our house. Her food is hearty when it needs to be, light when you want light, and seems to have passed muster with most of the kids. She's a good cook, rather than a chef, and I find that makes all the difference in how doable and 'eatable' the recipes are. I picked this up before I knew that she has a show on TV, and it stands alone nicely. More than can be said for some other tv cookbooks I've bought.

I bought this cookbook thinking it was strictly Irish foods but to my dismay it isn't--it includes other ethnic foods but is still a nice cookbook to have. The book is thick & a paperback which makes it hard to leave open when trying a recipe.

Disappointing.
I was also looking for Irish recipes and unfortunately there are not many in this book.Lot's of Thai/Mexican style foods which I was not expecting.
Overall recipes are bland and not anything to get excited about.

Rachel Allen is cute as a button, but this cookbook is lacking "meat" and not the edible kind.

There are a few good recipes, but not enough to justify keeping it. We'll donate it to the library.
And the whimsical arrangement of recipes is just downright annoying.