Customer Reviews
The best fish cookery book - By: P. Patten, 03 Nov 2007 
Ignore the "it's too stuffy" comment about this book--it reallly is a wonderful, intelligent & practical book. With this & Alan Davidson's terrific book on North Atlantic seafood, you don't need much if any more.
And yes, herbs do play an important part in the recipes--it's just not nuovo Italiano of the Jamie Oliver school.
depends what you're looking for - By: Martha M, 06 Oct 2005 
I had read so much about what an absolute bible this is and, having worked my way through most of Jamie's et al recipes for fish, I thought I'd branch out a bit. This isn't what I had in mind at alll. The recipes seem very old-fashioned. For example, I was looking for advice on what herbs go with what fish, but herbs don't appear to have been around when this was written. All the dishes seem to be the kind you would find in a creaky old gentlemen's club in the 1970's, with sauces. I accept that she's an acnowledged genius, but it's not my cup of tea.
What to do with cod - By: , 07 Jan 2000 This is a wonderful book, scholarly, beautifully written yet full of practical recipes. Her writing shows up so much cookery writing as desperately pedestrian just go & read some terrible delia after this. The recipes even if they look strange can always be trusted she reallly did know what she was doing just try the scalllops with gin. Every time you buy fish you'll look the individual fish up in this book & think which recipe shalll i do ? Buy it !
