Customer Reviews
Love Lust and Murder make the Perfect Ingredients - By: , 22 May 2005 
A Dinner of Herbs is the last offering from Catherine Cookson. A tale of lust, hate, & murder, it follows the lives of three friends, Roddy Greenbank (Jonathon Kerrigan) a artistic orphan who is raised by his dead fathers long-time friend Kate Makepeace (Billie Whitelaw), Hal Roystan (Tom Goodman Hill) a tough mill worker who is also orphaned after his father is murdered, & Mary-Ellen Lee a pretty housemaid who has openly yearned for Roddy since the day they met
When it emerges that the same man killed both Roddy & Hals father, Roddy sets about becoming an artist & leaves his home village of Langley, leaving Mary-Ellen pregnant & Kate ashamed of the boy she raised as her own.
Further heartache occurs when Hal is nearly murdered by his fathers killers daughter & events spurns Mary-Ellen to realising that she cannot lose the man she has grown to love.
The story picks up twenty five years later Hal & Mary-Ellen have made a success out of a farming life & Kate (Debra Stephenson) Roddy & Mary-Ellen's daughter is beautiful & kind & set for marriage untill she's jilted on the big day by the groom. She soon meets Ben Hamilton (Joseph May) a reclusive & handsome American millionaire who has a painful past to hide. Kate soon embarks upon a passionate affair with him & believes she has found the perfect man. But when Ben reveals his true identity to Kate, their endless love is put to the test in the most trying of circumstances.
A tale that will leave a smile on you face! - By: , 25 Dec 2000 
This was an excellent programme which hooked you from the start & kept you watching. The video is well worth being bought as you can watch this fantasic story over & over again. I reallly enjoyed it & recommend it!
