What cookbook should I buy?

[Ms T]

Someone I know is friends with Fuschia Dunlop and I can't think who but she's very nice and utterly passionate about Sechuan food apparently.

There is a mahoosive new Wing Yip which is nearly finished not far from me in Cricklewood. There's going to be a restaurant and a bakery too

eoin - that looks interesting. Does it have recipes from across Europe?

I randomly got an e-mail from her not long after I'd ordered her book. I had no idea she worked for the BBC World Service. I sent her a message raving about her book and she was very nice, not surprisingly!

She lived for quite a while in Chengdu, and is the only Westerner to have attended the cookery school there. Impressive.

 

[Santino]

Bobby Flay is scaring me

that ozzie bloke with the weird smile and the fabulous blue and white lifestyle scares me as well - what was his name? anyone?

This freak?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

That's him!

Gives that smile to camera between each stage of his recipes when on the box *shudders*

 

[mrsfran]

Bill Grainger is his name. Scary Ozzie Smiling Man, as he is known in our house. What IS wrong with the smile? It's just so weird. It never reaches his eyes.

 

[dilute micro]

Bobby Flay is scaring me

He's for real though. So is Jamie Oliver I think. I didn't like him until he went to that little Italian island and tried to impress the local cook.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Bill Grainger is his name. Scary Ozzie Smiling Man, as he is known in our house. What IS wrong with the smile? It's just so weird. It never reaches his eyes.

It's not just us then?! LOL!

I think he has a very black soul......

 

[Mrs Miggins]

He's for real though. So is Jamie Oliver I think. I didn't like him until he went to that little Italian island and tried to impress the local cook.

I can assure you that Jamie Oliver does indeed exist and was recently spotted slagging off British food in Paris Match. According to Jamie, "there is a greater variety of produce available in the street markets of South Africa than in the average British Supermarket". Not sure why he chose South Africa but he's undoubtedly right.

the fat tongued twat

 

[ringo]

... get down to the Oriental supermarket on Electric Ave. Honestly, you can't beat some simple pakchoi in oyster sauce once in a while - it's a great little shop for the time challenged.

Good call, I never cook Chinese food but grabbed some tofu and one of their pots of black bean sauce last week and knocked up a passable meal in a couple of minutes.

 

[ringo]

OK, the national treasure that is Marguerite Patten,
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Basic-Basic...r_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219769918&sr=1-12
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Ta, that looks like just the baking book I need, just ordered one for £2.25.
Must get that new oven sorted out.............