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| Author: Gordon Ramsay
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 314
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 10 x 8 x 1.3
ISBN: 1844004538
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781844004539
ASIN: 1844004538
Publication Date: May 4, 2007
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 Fast Food February 2, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great book with loads of recipes as featured in 'The F Word'. They are all easy to make and can be prepared and cooked in under 30 minutes, and the selected menu ideas can be put together in about 45 minutes. The recipes are easy to follow and are very clear, i've tried other book and got lost at times, but you get none of that with this book. The photography is great and really shows the food well. You occasionally get pictures of the food in it's pre and post cooked state so that you can see how it should look before and after and acts as a great guide. I've used this book (as well as Jamie Oliver's latest) to help me try some new recipes and to add some new ideas to my usual selection of meals I make on a routine basis. This is perfect for that goal, as each recipe is perfectly timed to get it prepared and cooked when i've got in from a busy day at work. The food tastes great as well, what more can you ask for? Well worth a try to expand your cooking skills and recipe knowledge.
Excellent book February 2, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I found the recipes easy to follow and the results are fabulous. There quite a lot of fish recipes in here which makes a pleasant change. Great stuff Gordon write some more books!
One of Gordons' best November 1, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Fast Food Ramsay's style! This book is full of so many great ideas one can try out in the kitchen using fresh quality ingredients, to make quick, exciting meals, and snacks which are also healthy, all with little effort. It is very good to see books like this published as it encourages people to use good quality ingredients, to make fast food while avoiding the takeaway style food altogether.
Gordon has always produced supreme food, and this is a supreme book, at an excellent price. It's a worth while contender for anyone's book shelf, and is a valuable tool when looking to make something quick, but also knowing that what you are eating is good for you at same time.
 Tasty August 24, 2007
3 out of 17 found this review helpful
I bought this after getting the Eat yourself thin book. I thought I would try another receipe book to see how it was. I was pleasantly surprised with it, with real food that tastes great. I watch the TV programme and really think alot of the swearing is just an act to get publicity, I really think his cooking would do that itself. Good Luck.
Does what it says - awesomely! July 15, 2007
66 out of 98 found this review helpful
Do you know any interior designers? You look at their interior wall and go, "Golly Gosh! How did you think of *that* colour!?"
It's not that it was complicated. Just that they have the technical skill to know exactly what shade of what will look stunning where.
The rest of us tend to rely on inspiration, experience (or bad experiences) and advice from friends and 'how-to' books. But someone who has spent 3yrs getting a degree in interior design can rarely explain their decisions to plebs like us. The best we can hope for is that they will tell us how to make our particular living room look wonderful.
Maybe the trouble with many cookery books is that they look very nice but appeal to good intentions rather than practicality.
There's exceptions of course. Absolute classics. But many never get used to the full.
Delia writes like she's giving you a correspondence course. Nigella appeals especially to women who identify with her social skills. Or men influenced by her bosom. Some of Ramsay's books over-use technical terms or highly skilled techniques. These are one step above useless to most lay-people. And then there's recipe books that are written by people who haven't got a clue beyond their own kitchen. Or ones trading on a celebrity name. Or that recommend ingredients you can import from Khazakstan. Or just sound nice. Or sound inspired. Substance sans communication: or photoshop-enhanced photos.
But I'd like to recommend this one to experienced foodies and also to people who struggle to impress the odd guest with simple home cooking.
'God Gordon' has finally decided to write for his readers instead of the cooking intelligensia. He has written a book that can be easily followed. One that will give you a result before the end of even a limited attention span.
I picked it up and immediately decided I would do his excellent baked nectarines. Each time I opened it there was an idea I could use. Or one that I could improve on an existing intention with.
There are so few cook books that do what they say on the cover. At least with any degree of expertise and honesty. This is one of them. Fast food that is awesome. Simply awesome.
No previous experience needed.
Fast Food, by Gordon Ramsey.
(May even keep you away from the M&S ready-meals aisle.)
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