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| Bistro Cooking | 
 enlarge | Author: Patricia Wells
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Category: Book
List Price: £12.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 91097
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 292
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.9 x 0.9
ISBN: 1856263193
EAN: 9781856265119
ASIN: 1856263193
Publication Date: March 25, 1999
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: ( 2003 Reprint ) Very Good Condition Throughout.
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Amazon.co.uk Review
In this warm look into the world of French bistro food, eminent food writer Patricia Wells reveals her love for this simple, robust cuisine in a collection of recipes garnered from France's best bistros. From "Warm Potato Salad with Herbed Vinaigrette" to "Lamb Stew in White Wine" to "Pear Clafoutis", Wells admits her preference for hearty, homey bistro dishes. Through clearly written recipes, Wells encourages cooks to buy the best ingredients and turn them into fragrant, warming dishes. Each recipe has a headnote telling where it came from and alluding to its flavour. Pithy quotes throughout the book relate to bistro style--in cooking, serving and eating--and historical quotations give a cultural connotation. Wine choices reach deep into the heart of France, from a crisp white from Provence such as a Chateau Simone with lamb, to a good Cotes du Rhone (Cru du Coudelet) with guinea hen. From the introduction to the last dessert recipe (for "Prunes in Red Wine"), Ms. Wells and Bistro Cooking is sure to please not just the novice in the kitchen, but the experienced cook as well. The recipes have been carefully selected to appeal to the reader and cook who want to set wonderful food on the table with a minimum of fuss. --Susan Loomis
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 fabulous recipes, horrid book March 10, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
this book is a classic - the recipes are superb, there are some really "wow" dishes that i use again and again... true - the writing, layout and trite little comments are horrid - but if you're a proper cook and not a browser it doesn't matter! Can't recommend it highly enough - great idea's for dinner parties and more informal gatherings.
Brilliant French cookery book July 14, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is quite hard to find, but well worth hunting down - one of the best French cookery books around. Clear reciopies for delicious dishes, Bistro cooking works well as home cooking.
 Great recipes shame about the writing July 26, 2001
15 out of 20 found this review helpful
The style and presentation of this book are dreadful. Horribly cliched pictures, random menus dotted about and an obsession with Beaujolais a wine they only seem to serve to tourists .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.
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