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5 Stars The Man Knows His Stuff
I am a typical male, not a very good cook, but fortunately I know someone who is, my wife. So rather than buy the book for myself I saw it as a good opportunity to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. A present for my wife with the added attraction of getting some of Gordon’s meals thrown in, without having to pay restaurant prices.

By chef’s own admission the food is simple, but innovative and exciting and I have been fortunate to enjoy several of the recipes already.

I admire Mr. Ramsay for trying to coax the British public into getting round the table together on a Sunday lunch time. Whether it will ever happen in our house where the members are usually scattered to the four corners of the property, doing their own thing. A tray on the knee, or even walking around with a plate in their hand, I have my doubts.

I do remember many years ago when I lived at home with my parents that Sunday lunch was a ritual that was virtually impossible to escape from. If you were not at the table, hands and face sparkling, you wouldn’t hear the last of it until Monday morning.

However I digress, the book is a cook book. So is it any good. Well like the curates egg, it is good in parts. By that I mean, or so my wife tells me, that some of the recipes are excellent and some of them are OK and some of them she thinks she can do better herself, and who am I to argue.

5 Stars Not just lunch
Ignore the title, these recipes are good for evening meals too.

I’ve been a big fan of Gordon for some time, watching his shows, reading his autobiography etc. This is the first of his cookbooks I have owned and I am very impressed.

The food is excellent, the suggested menus work well together (although I often interchange dishes). As well as themed ‘lunches’ there are also little asides e.g. 5 ways with carrots, and the spiced carrots with star anise has been a big hit with our guests. I’ve used Gordon’s honey mustard marinade a lot, and the beef casserole with mustard mash potatoes has to be one of my favourites.

And as only a moderately experienced cook, I love the timelines for the themed lunches, i.e. what you can do the day before, what to do an hour ahead, what to do just before serving.

My favourite cookbook. Until, perhaps I buy another Ramsay cookbook.

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2 Stars Nothing to eat
While I am a big fan of Mr. Ramsay, I was very disappointed with this book. After reading through it, there was simply no food that I wanted to eat in it and I found the cooking instructions and meal planning obtuse.

1 Star Not good for Americans
I was really excited about this as Im a huge fan of his show kitchen nightmares. I was extremley upset with his cookbook as its geared primarly european recipes. Secondly, the exact cooking instructions are extremley vague and make the reader try to become a mind reader in order to complete these recipes.

Ramsey I suggest you make a cookbook with recipes from your Kitchen Nightmares show, this book was euro crap.

4 Stars good fast food
Because of Gordon’s shows, my son has gotten interested in cooking. This will be a Christmas present and I hope to see my son in the kitchen soon !

5 Stars Food, food, food…
Nice book with some wonderful and quick recipes. If you like Gordon Ramsay or just like his food, you must have this book.

5 Stars The title says it all
Although I enjoy cooking, it was always a weekend thing when I wasn’t so tired and I had more time. This book has reawakened my love of cooking – every evening. The recipes are short and straightforward and there’s no spurious fluff (like you’d find in Jamie Oliver’s books). There’s rarely a problem finding the ingredients and it doesn’t take any great skill to follow the recipes. For simplicity and tastiness the pasta with pancetta and leeks has to be the best dish I’ve ever come across for an average work evening.

Highly recommended

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In his outstanding new cookbook, Gordon Ramsay teams up with Mark Sargeant to showcase the best of British cooking. Packed full of sumptuous and hearty traditional recipes, Gordon Ramsay’s Great British Pub Food is perfect for relaxed, homely and comforting cooking. Pubs were once a place where you could always guarantee good, simple, cheap food and a great Sunday roast, but when the steak houses and fast food chains arrived the good home cooking from the pub kitchens was replaced with tasteless, defrosted meals. Then came the gastropubs, which weren’t much better, serving mediocre food at restaurant prices. That’s why when Gordon Ramsay and Mark Sargeant set up the Gordon Ramsay pubs in London they wanted to produce the sort of simple but delicious British classics that warm the cockles of your heart and to serve them at affordable pub prices. Dishes like rich, hearty Chicken and Smoked Bacon Pie, mouth-watering Gloucestershire Sausages with Grainy Mustard Mash and Red Onion Marmalade and indulgent Treacle Tart – classics that have stood the test of time. Now Gordon has gathered his favourite British recipes into one sumptuous collection so you can invite your friends round, serve some good, English ale and cook the best in traditional pub food classics in your own home.

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