The Top 100 Recipes from "Food and Drink": Includes the Viewers All-Time Favourite Dishes

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Antony Worrall Thompson

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Pages: 144 (Hardcover)

ISBN: 0563488441

Pub: BBC Books

Pub date: 2002-09-19

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 226596

Editorial Review:

Here's the idea: get the BBC audience to vote on their favourite British, holiday and all-time classic dishes, pop in a celebrity chef (Antony Worrall Thompson) to show us how to whip them up on telly, and spin a book out of it. Voilà, The Top 100 Recipes from the Food & Drink TV Series is on the shelves. Perhaps a more appropriate name for this collection of recipes would be "How to Cook Like a Pub Chef", as none of these dishes would be out of place on the menu at your local. Spaghetti bolognaise, beef wellington, chicken kiev and rhubarb crumble are recreated and reworked (anchovy essence and Worcestershire sauce are added to the bolognaise sauce) just enough to allow you to claim them as your "own special recipes". That's about the extent to which most of these recipes will stretch the culinary imagination.

However, the book doesn't only focus on what the public voted for; AWT adds 70 of his own favourite dishes, and here you'll find some more interesting and inspiring recipes. (Isn't that what we buy cookbooks for?) Lemon polenta cake with rosemary syrup was the talking point of one dinner party, and the roast walnut pesto seems to be foolproof. AWT promises that none of these dishes are "beyond reach". The focus is definitely on uncomplicated recipes that steer clear of any of the latest food trends and remain (mostly) grounded in your mum's recipe collection. Most of these dishes will not impress your friends, but they will warm the cockles on a cold winter's night when only comfort food will do. --Amelia Crook

Reader Reviews:

A guide to basic cooking - but far too ordinary! (1/1 people found this helpful)

This recipe book was designed to accompany the BBC Food and Drink Series, presented by Antony Worall-Thompson. The TV series was imaginatively put together, and the camera succeeded in making the finished dishes look inspirational! It made you want to buy the book. But in comparison, the recipe book does not live up to expectations and sadly, I have to say it is a real disappointment! The way that the recipe collection is presented in print is far too ordinary and matter-of-fact, and even the photography seems to lack lustre of any kind. In my view, the ideas do not come across as well as they seemed to do on the screen, and so the book itself is rather a let-down after the TV series.

OKAY (2/3 people found this helpful)

THIS BOOK GIVES A good variety of different recipes but it is a little difficult to follow at some points in the book. overall a good buy especially if you get in the 30% offer. i wouldn't let my critsm put you off you go girl

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