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| Gordon Ramsay's Fast Food | 
 enlarge | Author: Gordon Ramsay
Publisher: Key Porter Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 1210
Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1554700647
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.555
EAN: 9781554700646
ASIN: 1554700647
Publication Date: March 28, 2008
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 Never again... June 1, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the second Ramsey book I've bought. The first one was a real disappointment, and I'd hoped that was just a fluke. This one has little to offer any normal cook or chef, seemingly aimed at people who have an unlimited access to seldom seem ingredients and a larger budget for food than most of us. A real disappointment. I thoroughly enjoy his several TV shows, but won't be buying any of his cookbooks again...
 Genuinely fast, genuinely good food May 23, 2008
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
This book is going on my shelf with the half dozen or so cookbooks I intend to keep till I'm carted out of the house feet first.
With a few storecupboard exceptions such as canned beans, canned tomatoes, and bottled ready-roasted peppers, all of the main ingredients for the recipes are fresh. The recipes are indeed easy and fast, and really, really appetising. Unlike my experience with most cookbooks.
Like most English cookbooks, there is a reasonable number of seafood recipes, which I guess reflects the high proportion of coastline to land area in the UK, and that fact that transport of fresh fish inland is quick (and the fish therefore reasonably good) because of the short distances involved. However, there are twice as many 'main' recipes based on meat, poultry, cheese, eggs, vegetables or grains, so even if you don't like fish or can't access very fresh seafood, there's still plenty of choice.
There isn't a high proportion of esoteric ingredients required - this isn't one of those books where every single recipe seemingly requires another few exotic ingredients to be bought.
The recipes are suitable for home use and for entertaining.
 Too many fish recipes May 16, 2008
12 out of 18 found this review helpful
Love Gordan Ramsay! and this book is no exception, great, easy, quick recipes that even the modest chef can achieve. I did however find too many fish recipes, maybe its the state of meat in Europe, but would have hoped for some more meat and vegetable dishes. Otherwise great book!
Fancy Food Fast April 24, 2008
82 out of 84 found this review helpful
This shouldn't be your first -- or your only -- cooking book. It just ain't a comprehensive everyday kind of tome. But it is a great book for people that want to create high-end food that is fresh and modern -- and do it quickly. I've already cooked several of the recipes, including breakfast eggs, dinner lemon chicken and spiced pan-roasted apples/pears. All have been a real treat. Using fresh ingredients and quick cooking you end up with real tasty stuff. Many of the recipes have a long-ish list of ingredients, but none are very hard to prepare. You will impress anyone you are cooking for with this book.
Good stuff: Covers large range of meals, soup to seafood to meat to vegetable sides to amazing fruit desserts. Excellent photographs. Clear directions. Quality of the finished products. Lack of TV star chef fluff. Originality of the dishes. American kitchen measures. For cooking several of the recipes together as an integrated dinner he includes a really useful timeline listing what to do in what order to make the whole dinner. Brilliant!
Not perfect: Would like more of Gordon's wisdom in picking out the best fresh ingredients. Gordon is British and trained in France, so some things slipped through US editing, like using creme fraiche or Calvados. This is not a diet book.
Overall: Yum! Fancy dishes sure to delight. Cooked Fast. Tasting Fresh. All the better because they are real cooking. I'm off to make sauteed scallops with corn salsa followed by caramelized banana split. It will all be ready in 40 minutes, guessing half an hour the second time I do it . . .
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