Review: great little cookbook
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2012
Onetime restauranteur Ted Summerfield has generously shared some of the recipes he used in his Vancouver bistro with the world, and they're so good that you'll be surprised that this Kindle eBook is free.Sprinkled with interesting quotations, Summerfield has created a cookbook that does one's heart good -- figuratively, if definitely not literally. Many, if not most, of the recipes are traditional British fare or recipes brought back to England and Canada from the days of the Empire: roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, a curry, and lots of pies, both sweet and savory. As you'd expect, there's plenty of butter, bacon, carbohydrates, and refined sugars in these pages, but that's definitely OK. Summerfield also has some great pages on the use herbs and spices. When you reach the last page, you'll be sorry there aren't more offerings in this little book.Be prepared for the occasional use of what I'll call "Canadianisms": for example, "icing sugar" for powdered or confectioner's sugar and the use of both metric and imperial measures.Summerfield has penned an excellent cookbook. I only hope that Summerfield, who mostly writes puzzle books, will take a break from books that provide food for the mind and craft another aimed at food for the stomach.