Delia's How to Cheat at Cooking

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-05-31 rating:
I haven't had the heart to say I cheated!!
I'm really impressed with this book mainly for the reason that it's been my saviour recently for last minute meals that I've had to prepare for visitors. I haven't had the heart to say I've cheated but I've had nothing but compliments for the food, even from my fiancee who can't stand capers!
I recommend this for real kitchen cheats who want to guarentee a tasty meal. If you want to sit back and take the full credit yourself, try something else!
It's also good value at the moment. I've not seen it cheaper anywhere else.

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review by: Brenda date: 2008-05-29 rating:
Nice to have a new one
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!

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review by: date: 2008-05-28 rating:
you will be cheated!!!
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.

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review by: date: 2008-05-27 rating:
factory hens and grocery (sainsburys) store profits
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.


review by: date: 2008-05-23 rating:
Excellent book says my mother
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!!

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