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| Passion for Seafood (Conran Octopus Cookery S.) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gordon Ramsay, Roz Denny
Publisher: Conran
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 56719
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 1840914602
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.692
EAN: 9781840914603
ASIN: 1840914602
Publication Date: July 28, 2006
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Condition: BRAND NEW
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 A Passion for Seafood March 30, 2008
What a wonderful cookbook for fish. As we try to eat healthier and eat more fish, it is difficult to find good recipes that allow the real flavor and texture of the fish to shine through. Gordon Ramsey's book has tons of great recipes with wonderfully light sauces and fresh vegetables that compliment each type of fish perfectly. He's even thrown in a few dessert recipes for those of us who like to end a meal with a taste of something sweet! This book is a winner!
 Very imformative March 28, 2008
I love Ramsay's books. They are beautiful, even to a novice chef who would not dare to try quite a few of the recipes, but I found this particular book to be very imformative, great sections about different types of fish, how to judge freshness and how to filet. If you are adventurous, and can't find sea bream for example, you can use use this book to judge a fish that is available to you that can be used. Extensive sections on sauces and marinades, but he also explains that some fish, such as trout are best cooked simply...It is a wonderful reference, even if you can't exactly duplicate a recipe it inspires great ideas. My compliments to the Chef.
Passion for seafood December 26, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Part of a gift registry, but looks alot more valuable than it is, and makes excellent gift
Recipient loved it, but they registered for it.
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exelent basics October 30, 2007
this book is an exelent first step to seafood, very clear in basic concepts and very nice photos.
Cooking great seafood in delicious, yet simple ways October 6, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I love to cook, yet strangely I can't cook seafood as well I should be able. I bought this book in an attempt to remedy that.
The recipes aren't complicated or overdone, yet every one of the dishes I have made were excellent, even when I made a mistake on one of them. I did have a few issues with the UK English to US English translation of a few items, like 'groundnut oil" is peanut oil. Maybe that is common knowledge, but I had to Google it to figure that out. They have translations for metric, but that is not an issue for me. (All the recipe measurements are in metric, FYI.) There are translations in the book for the seafood, which is definitely helpful, but there are a few things that you must look up on your own. I know the simple ones like aubergine is simply eggplant, yet I was totally confused by using chicory in a recipe. Yes, the translation to the US is ... endive.
Those few items aside, I made several excellent dishes with tuna, swordfish and scallops. Each recipe has a quick few lines about it, suggests pairings with sides and even wine. I found the a common theme to be a small range of flavors that are delicious. Not every recipe has a picture, but some are beautifully photographed.
If you are looking for a cookbook that will give you recipes to make delicious simple, unpretentious seafood, this a very good one for your library. I didn't find any recipes so far that were difficult, but I am not a professional, nor am I a novice cook.
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