Review: Humorous approach to cooking unfortunately the book is written for European cooks
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2013
While the Cooking for Dads cookbook, written by author Philip Storey, is humorous it is written using metric measurements. For novice US cooks this could be an impediment to cooking. Experienced cooks can figure out how to convert the measurements but a novice US cook would probably be at a loss.Buy this book and enjoy his tips and humor. Don't buy it for the recipes.Some of the recipes you will find in his cookbook include:Leek and Potato SoupOne Pot Chicken ChasseurFruity Tea CakeHere's a sample of his funny writing found in his recipe for the Fruity Tea Cake:"....keep mixing, pressing into it with the fork and quietly suspecting it should be over heat and the idiot who wrote the recipe was sitting on the front step of a restaurant in Tangiers, where it is 140F in the shade so no wonder his butter and sugar went creamy..." The author was humorously describing how to cream the butter and sugar to make the Fruity Tea Cake.Like I wrote earlier, buy the book and enjoy the writing. This is a funny cookbook.Recommend with caveats given.Penmouse