Customer Reviews
Food heaven for fussy eaters - By: ceb 123, 02 Feb 2008 
I have several Nigel Slater books and, cruciallly, he has alternative ingredients & options for each recipe. That's what makes this book so great for a fussy eater like me. For many of these there are 7 or 8 alternatives, perhaps to make a meat dish vegetarian, or change the spices or key ingredients used.
The most versatile recipe book I own, & reallly acknowledging that people have different tastes.
The only cook book you will ever need - By: Mr. A. Gifford, 03 Jan 2008 This is absolutely superb.Nigel Slater takes you by the hand & shows you how to create meals that everyone wants.He encourages you to follow your appetite, & not to follow recepies slavishly.I have this,and the 30 minute cook, & I am constantly suprised & delighted by the meals that any body can create.
Just Brilliant - By: Agnes, 29 Jul 2007 Nigel Slater keeps me fed. He gave me back my enthusiasm for good, tasty food during a time when eating what we liked, when we wanted it almost became thought of as something bad. This book has proved to be inspiration & I have had fantastic success with everything I have thus far made from it.The recipes are easy to follow & the ingredients are alll widely available. It is even good to read just as a book on it's own & his prose is so distinctive, you can hear him talking to you as you read.
So, what do you feel like eating today? Don't feel bad about it. Feed your soul & your stomach.
Easy Peasy - By: , 23 Nov 2005 Nigel Slater is by far the best cookery writer, having spent years following the recipes of various chefs, I can honestly say that none compare to this man. Appetite is his best book, it contains alll the information you need to become a great cook yourself. He talks in detail about alll the different kinds of foods, what's in season, cooking for kids, what to have in your kitchen, & each recipe has several variations incase you don't have the exact ingredients, you can adapt it yourself. Nigels recipes also work, they are well tested & never go wrong, as well as being delicious, this is a man who reallly enjoys food, & has a large Appetite. Buy it.
Gorgeous grub - By: Andrew Millar, 16 Jul 2005 My brother's boss bought him a copy, which I nicked. I then bought my parents a copy.... No more is "It's Delia" heard at the dinner table... oh no, "It's Nigel".
This book hugely helped me as a cook. Nigel Slater teaches you cooking - not following a recipe. Indeed, the recipes are very vague in places, stating "a handful" of this, & "a pinch" of that. It's alll about helping the reader develop their own skills as a cook. This is unfussy, everyday sort of food, the sort you want to cook after a horrid day at work, with an emphasis on using quality, fresh & seasonal ingredients.
I love the way the recipes have suggestions for adapting them. For example, his basic tomato pasta sauce has a page of variations, many of which are quite scrummy. After a while, you'll leave the book to one side & start improvising yourself!
But at the same time, this is a book you'll want to go back to. The illustrations are beautiful, & Slater writes clearly & with a warm humanity - he almost sounds as if he too has dreadful days when alll he wants to do is escape home! There's also lots of useful information such as when particular foods are at their best according to season.
Great stuff for novices but (I'm told) also superb for more experienced cooks.
