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5.0 out of 5 stars Fancy Food Fast, April 24, 2008

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This review is from: Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food (Hardcover)

This shouldn't be your first -- or your only -- cooking book. It just ain't a comprehensive everyday kind of tome. But it is a great book for people that want to create high-end food that is fresh and modern -- and do it quickly. I've already cooked several of the recipes, including breakfast eggs, dinner lemon chicken and spiced pan-roasted apples/pears. All have been a real treat. Using fresh ingredients and quick cooking you end up with real tasty stuff. Many of the recipes have a long-ish list of ingredients, but none are very hard to prepare. You will impress anyone you are cooking for with this book.

Good stuff: Covers large range of meals, soup to seafood to meat to vegetable sides to amazing fruit desserts. Excellent photographs. Clear directions. Quality of the finished products. Lack of TV star chef fluff. Originality of the dishes. American kitchen measures. For cooking several of the recipes together as an integrated dinner he includes a really useful timeline listing what to do in what order to make the whole dinner. Brilliant!

Not perfect: Would like more of Gordon's wisdom in picking out the best fresh ingredients. Gordon is British and trained in France, so some things slipped through US editing, like using crème fra�che or Calvados. This is not a diet book.

Overall: Yum! Fancy dishes sure to delight. Cooked Fast. Tasting Fresh. All the better because they are real cooking. I'm off to make sautéed scallops with corn salsa followed by caramelized banana split. It will all be ready in 40 minutes, guessing half an hour the second time I do it . . .

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46 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent cookbook, July 25, 2007

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This review is from: Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food: Recipes from "The F Word" (UK Hardcover) (Hardcover)

This is by far the best cookbook I own. His recipes are all quick to make but taste like you spent hours. He uses an easy to understand approach to his recipes plus gives you a list of common things that everyone should keep in their kitchen for quick gourmet meals. We've cooked for friends with these recipes on several occasions and they keep asking when they can come back!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Genuinely fast, genuinely good food, May 22, 2008

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This review is from: Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food (Hardcover)

This book is going on my shelf with the half dozen or so cookbooks I intend to keep till I'm carted out of the house feet first.

With a few storecupboard exceptions such as canned beans, canned tomatoes, and bottled ready-roasted peppers, all of the main ingredients for the recipes are fresh. The recipes are indeed easy and fast, and really, really appetising. Unlike my experience with most cookbooks.

Like most English cookbooks, there is a reasonable number of seafood recipes, which I guess reflects the high proportion of coastline to land area in the UK, and that fact that transport of fresh fish inland is quick (and the fish therefore reasonably good) because of the short distances involved. However, there are twice as many 'main' recipes based on meat, poultry, cheese, eggs, vegetables or grains, so even if you don't like fish or can't access very fresh seafood, there's still plenty of choice.

There isn't a high proportion of esoteric ingredients required - this isn't one of those books where every single recipe seemingly requires another few exotic ingredients to be bought.

The recipes are suitable for home use and for entertaining.

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Published on December 27, 2009 by John D. Hollingsworth

4.0 out of 5 stars Can't get all the ingredients, but love it anyway.
I judge a cookbook as good if I get a few ideas in the boring job of menu making and grocery shopping. You get so you can't think of anything to make week after week. Read more

Published on October 28, 2009 by M. J. Schroeder

5.0 out of 5 stars It is hard to find ingredients for me
We live overseas, military, and I can't complete the dishes. When we get back to the states I really want to try some.

Published on October 20, 2009 by Christine Gettis

4.0 out of 5 stars Lives up to the title
I have made several recipes from the cookbook, and they have all turned out stellar. I am a newish cook, so I have picked some of the easier recipes to start with until my... Read more

Published on September 11, 2009 by C. L. Rowe

5.0 out of 5 stars This book makes it clear that there is no excuse for failing to prepare fast, fresh and delicious dinners at home.
I recently bought this book after having prepared recipes from Gordon Ramsay that I had tracked down online.

First, the book is gorgeous. Read more

Published on August 25, 2009 by Michelle Long

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