Customer Reviews
The River Cottage Family Cookbook - By: Lorna Keene, 27 Aug 2008 
This book is fantastic, I can not fault it one bit. Hugh & Fizz create a world where it is easy & fun to cook home made produce. My friends are often asking me how I know how to make so many good things, & its alll in this cook book! Home made pasta, Who else actuallly does that anymore? Yet its easy & simple to do, alll kinds of home made breads, cakes, its just brilliant!
A good book for beginners, children and everyone else - By: Sabine Zimmermann, 16 Aug 2008 Yes, this book does contain recipes that are too basic for people with decent cooking skills, but there are recipes for those people too. It's the mixture that makes it a true family cookbook - you can hardly start your children off cooking with complicated recipes. All the recipes are presented in a very clear way & easy to follow. What I realy like about this book are the projects that are included in most chapters. They reallly make it possible to teach children how food is or used to be produced (make your own pasta, cream cheese, grow your own potatoes or little salad garden on very little space ...) or just suggest ideas for having some fun, for example at a children's party (have a pancake race, create your own icecream maker ...). Many recipes have step-by-step photographs to help you along, plus serving suggestions to vary the recipes. I quite enjoy this book, although I do also cook from Gary Rhodes' or Gordon Ramsay's books & obviously am not a beginner.
Great family cookbook - By: Dr. T. I. Simpson, 26 Mar 2008 Having two smalll children I was looking for a cook book that would be both fun & educational & help me as a parent to get their hands dirty in the kitchen with some real cooking. I like Hugh's presentation style & enthusiasm for food which comes across strongly in his TV programmes & I was curious to see whether this translated into this book. Quite simply it does. To my surprise I also found myself getting seriously back into cooking & within a few weeks have cooked quite a few of the recipes with my children with great success.
A few people have commented negatively about the simplicity of the recipes in this book, but lets not forget the intended purpose & audience.
Also if you are looking for an encyclopaedic reference cookbook of family cooking this isn't it either, there are many other books that can do that for you. This cookbook contains a well chosen selection of recipes covering a good range of food types, a great way for me as a parent to try out new things for my children to eat with solid, fun recipes that they can get involved with.
Very highly recommended.
Good cook books - By: Mrs. Virginia H. Stewart, 17 Oct 2007 Having watched Hugh's series on living in Dorset, where we live, I am already a big fan of his cooking & this book did not disapoint.
I has been a super book to dip into & choose recipes to cook both on my own & with my children. What I particularly like is that the style doesn't patronise children & spreads the recipes between sweet dishes & main courses. The recipes are good for children to follow & presume that they are going to cook proper food not just fairy cakes.
I would reallly recommend this book to both families & adults, it's a good read (and beautiful to look at & handle) & the recipes work well. What more could you want!
fantastic book and recipies - By: Ms. Michelle A. White, 13 Aug 2007 This book is for every budding cook from begginers to more talented experts! The recipies are fantastic & truly inspirational, they make you want to cook. I now enjoy cooking when i get home. The insite into how meat gets to your plate is interesting & the information about where to buy decent meat & how to spot a good buy is reallly helpful. will definatly buy another book from his collection!
