Customer Reviews
food lover - By: J. A. Keightley, 21 Nov 2007 
I bought this book when it first came out, & it is now my favourite recipe book of alll time, which is not bad for a person with over 100 cookbooks. The recipe for Ludi's chicken produces the most delicious potatoes, & every time I cook it I am asked for the recipe. As Tessa Kiros says, these spuds are delicious hot or cold, but the only way they survive long enough to get cold is to cook twice the amount! People drool at the memory of it. The feta & chickpea salad is tangy & very moreish. I have tried most of the recipes & keep going back for more. This is family cooking at its best.
Simple and tasty - By: JEM, 02 Feb 2007 Gorgeous book - lovely to look at even if you don't intend using it to cook with - if you do, even better. The recipes are simple, you don't need a trolley full of ingredients, very easy to follow & wonderfully tasty rather than simply following the latest food fad. My favourite so far is the vanilla ice cream which beats anything you can get in the shops - & you don't need an ice-cream maker.
An Exquisite Find : ) - By: greenpapaya*, 08 Sep 2006 I have falllen in love with this enchanting book. Just on the basis of a collection of recipes this is still a fantastic book, but this is far more than just a collection of recipes. In Tessa Kiros's Fallling Cloudberries she has created an immensely personal journey through different lands & experiences & the resulting eclectic mix of foods & approaches to recipes.
It is an exquisite book both visuallly (it is of an exceptionallly high quality) & through the generosity of Tessa's fascinating biography alllowing the recipes she has chosen to reallly come alive.
I look foward to getting to know this book well. What a treasure & what a treat. You will want to share this book with everyone who is dear to you, as Tessa shares her memories of those who are dear to her.
Thank you Tessa for the wonderful gift that is 'Fallling Cloudberries'.
The author's personal collection of family recipes from around the world. - By: Amazon Reviewer, 09 Aug 2006 
This delightful tome takes the reader on a worldwide journey, experiencing the cuisine of the author's best-loved places.
`Finland still remains a dream; a faraway land where Father Christmas lives & glides here & there with his sleigh, ducking through fallling cloudberries & past my mother ice-skating to school.....'
`Fallling Cloudberries, A World of Family Recipes' is Tessa's second book, a personal collection of family recipes from around the world.
The exquisite cover opens up to reveal a recipe mix of unusual, exotic tastes & familiar, family favourites.
A family tree introduces Tessa's family members & the book is further enhanced by old family photos. This gives the recipes a sense of place & history as they have been handed down through the generations.
399 thick, high quality matt pages, split over
6 main chapters:-
Fallling Cloudberries (Finland) page 14
Oregano, Oranges & Olive Groves (Greece) page 70
Cinnamon & Roses (Cyprus) page 144
Monkeys' Weddings (South Africa) page 218
Washing Lines & Wishing Wells (Italy) page 276
Suitcase of Recipes (World) pages 334-385
sandwiched between an introduction entitled `Food from many Kitchens' & a concise index, concluding with a charming acknowledgment page, entitled `from Tessa'.
A thin blue satin ribbon keeps your page when you have to put this book down, a book that is arguably 'just a recipe book' but almost demands to be read like a novel, at any time in any place!
The first glimpse of Tessa's unique writing style is captured in her introduction:-
`These are the recipes I grew up with; the recipes that have woven their way through the neighbourhoods of my mind, past indifference & into love. Those that have stayed while others might have fluttered away with a gentle spring breeze. These are the ones I choose to share; the ones that special people have taught me & that I have recorded, sometimes over a pot of coffee at my own kitchen table, & sometimes struggling to understand through the barriers of a language on a journey somewhere....
I have always kept my favourite recipes in journals & I hope you will find a place for them among your own tablecloths. Here are the recipes that I love'
and is present throughout at the head of each chapter & within each recipe.
Favourite Recipes:-
Fresh Salmon, Dill & Potato Soup
Moussaka
Beef Casserole with Carrots, Onions & Cream
Pork Schnitzels with Sautéed Potatoes
Cranberry Sorbet
Salt Baked Fish with Lemon & Parsley Salad
Lemon & Oregano Chicken
Stuffed Egg-Plants
Spinach Pilaf
Baklava with Nuts & Dried Apricots
Filo Millefeuille with Oranges
Chicken Wings with Blue Cheese Dressing
Barbecued Spare Ribs
Milk Tart
Lemon Crème Brulée
Champagne Risotto
Veal Loin with Mustard, Pancetta & Cabbage
Coffee Granita with Whipped Cream
Couscous Salad
Crème Caramel
`I always long for those lunches that begin anywhere between noon & 5 pm & end only when the owner decides it's time to drag the tables off the beach.................On our way back we are twice blessed - with the haphazard washing lines of octopus silhouettes & a Greek sunset.'
Beautifully written and presented - By: , 13 Nov 2005 This book has alll the elements of a great cook book - lovely recipes for alll occasions, gorgeous pictures, but most importantly an explanation for the choice of recipes. The author uses family history & her life experiences so that the recipes come alive & you can imagine food in the surroundings where the author enjoyed them.
And best of alll, the recipes are great!
