The writing is cloying and patronisingly American . It is like hearing a loud American voice in a quiet French town It is a shame it was not translated into English.

Why buy it then?- well to give Mrs Wells credit the recipes are excellent and do indeed evoke cheap and cheerful French restaurant cooking very well indeed . I just wish she had had a better editor .


Excellent read and great recipes   July 3, 2000
 5 out of 7 found this review helpful

A true taste of France right here in the Jungles of Borneo! Whenever I'm fed up of jungle fern and dried fish "blachan", I reach for this masterpiece to give me inspiration! The dishes are wonderfully easy to prepare and the Chocolate cake is the most divine ever created. For those who painstakingly tried to make the River Cafe's Chocolate Nemesis, look no further then this book-the recipe works EVERY time!


If you have room for only one cookbook, this is it!   April 1, 2000
 5 out of 9 found this review helpful

Bistro Cooking brings alive everything that is good about cooking. Fantastic recipes, that are rewarding to prepare, and a delight to eat. Every new recipe leaves you with a small twinge of exitement as to what delights you are going to find next. For anyone who has eaten in French bistro's the memorys will come flooding back with the beautiful yet simple complete menu's she offers too throughout the book. I never get bored of this book.