Review: Get busy cooking
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2013
I find that speed is often neglected in popular cookery books, but along with healthiness it is one of my most important criteria. I was therefore grateful to come across "Smart Cooking", which has permitted me to almost entirely remove junk food and microwave meals from my diet. It contains four chapters; the first is about ingredients, kitchen gear and shopping tips, the second lays out a program for improvement, the third provides delicious recipes, and in the fourth Beck explains her choice of ingredients in more detail.Of the example recipes that I've tried, I find that some of them take ten or fifteen minutes longer than the target time of half an hour. However, on the whole Alexandra Beck's book has significantly improved my speed in the kitchen. I would recommend her book on the strength of the recipes alone, but in fact it offers a variety of useful tips to working people who have to cook for themselves.