| | How to cheat at cooking |  | Author: Delia Smith
Publisher: Ebury Press
Category: Book
Buy Used: £22.85
New (2) Collectible (1) from £29.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  146 reviews
Sales Rank: 849409
Pages: 176
ISBN: 085223015X
EAN: 9780852230152
ASIN: 085223015X
Publication Date: 1971
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: 1976 impression of the 1971 P.Bk. Heavy tanning of edges and some personal notes and one signature. Good strong binding and nice clean flat copy with protective plastic jacket. No tears, text perfect so good working copy.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nice to have a new one May 29, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Its great to have a cook book from someone who actually cooks at home and knows how we have to manage. Follow the recipe and it works, which is more than can be said for some "gourmet" recipe books. Welcome back Delia!
 you will be cheated!!! May 28, 2008
8 out of 21 found this review helpful
My mum (bless her), bought this book without knowing the focus of the recipes. It should have been titled "How to treat the British cooking public like idiots and make more money at the same time." Evidently, 'Cheat!' was a shorter title. Stick to getting drunk and slurring over the PA system at footy matches Delia. I've lost all respect for you.
factory hens and grocery (sainsburys) store profits May 27, 2008
7 out of 17 found this review helpful
Delia obviously knows nothings about nutrition - bless her, she's a different generation: believes all the hype about factory farming and gladly gives the thumbs up saying it's okay for poor people to buy inferior (poisoned?) meat. What's worse is that alot of people (my mum included!) will buy this book. We all know she works with/for sainsburys. Here she is pushing the pre-packed/ready made ingredients....
Good for you or good for profits?
You decide.
Excellent book says my mother May 23, 2008
14 out of 21 found this review helpful
I am typing this as dictated by my 73 year old mother. I have my own copy of Delia's new book - she has been looking at for a good few months now and then asked me to get her a copy. She has cooked all her life for a family through all stages young and old. She is now on her own but still does lots of entertaining and has the grandchildren to stay. So this is her view of Delia's new How to Cheat at Cooking (the 1971 version still on her shelf).
'It is fantastic to see how Delia has realised how so very many people, singles and families are desperate for help right now. The strange food obsessed world we live in gives such mixed messages to all age groups/varying stages of affluence/knowledge. There are a good few other cooks who I admire (Nigel Slater and Jamie in particular) but I ALWAYS come back to Delia - especially when I want to be really, really sure it is going to work. The most important point here is QUALITY. Lots of people have misinterpreted what Delia has said. Over and over she has tried to get across that QUALITY is the key. I trust Delia, millions of people obviously do. She is the highest selling cookery book writer in the country. So when some of the small time chefs and others writing on this board protest (without knowing their facts) it makes me very angry.
I don't want to rant on like a crazed old lady!! But I so want to encourage people who may have been influenced by some of the nonsense reporting to just GIVE IT A GO. I have eaten beautiful meals prepared by my daughter (and am starting myself now) from the book and television. The pastry cases are a WOW -
as good as my own. The casseroles are wonderful. Puds easy peasy and yet taste so very, very good.
So please if you have looked at these messages - just ignore the One Star folks. They have obviously
1. not got the book. 2. not cooked from the book. 3. not eaten from the book.
Plus having read many newspaper reports
1. Delia obviously does not benefit finanacially from the foodie ingredients
2. The goods in cans/jars are not full of preservatives.
So one old biddy is signing off for a large glass of cold white wine and the delicious Spanish Pork Stew which my daughter, children and friends have prepared for supper tonight. We will gather around the table and share good food which has been prepared easily and using excellent ingredients. Isn't that just what Delia set out to do?' Get 'real' people not foodie fanatics around the table eating and eating well. Goodnight all.'
On that note I best serve up the pud - the brilliant pancakes with sour cherries - before she carries on!!
Perfect for those leaving home! May 23, 2008
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have recently left home to live with my boyfriend and this book has saved my life. At home i couldnt cook at all even though my mother and grandmothers are all wonderful cooks. Me and my boyfriend dont have alot of money to spend on food and we worry alot about waste food so we try to use everything we buy. This book is perfect for anyone whos just left home and is learning how to best buy and use food. We think the tinned and frozen ingredients are genius as we only use exactly what we need and the rest can wait months before we make the recipe again. Have used many of these recipes to feed relatives visiting our new little house (my sister and her boyfriend love the lazy summer soup).
Also worth considering is Delias Cookery Course, this amazing book helped us choose what to buy to kit out our first kitchen and is always on standby for the british classics my mother can make from memory but i never seem to learn (gravy, yorkshire puds, crumbles and sponge cakes).
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