My mother-in-law gave this to my husband 4 years before we married in 1978. It has travelled around the world with us. The inserts on roasting, boning, etc have been invaluable and it has pride of place in the kitchen bookcase even though we don't cook from it very often.
Jack Monroe #81 It’s like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a wife
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Omg I can hear her enlarged adenoids pulsating through my laptop
I saw this lovely review on Amazon: If you love cooking, but are afraid to cook then look no further than this book. I bought this fabulous book 40 years back and through a terrible divorce I lost it. I bought it a few weeks back and Oh My God, what a really lovely and brilliant cookery book it is. Forget all you have been told about Microwave cooking. This is the real deal. Prepare your food and get that oven on. Then wait for that lovely meal to come out of that oven and taste it as it should really taste. Forget all the TV cooks who don't know what the hell they are talking about. Really read this book and enjoy your real cooking. It all comes down to trial and error. That's how those TV cooks got their experience. Then got too big and failed. Home cooking is the way to go. Learn how to prepare any foods and / veg. A microwave does also help but is not essential. PC. 14. 10. 2019. PS. My Reviews are real and NOT fake. Good Luck.
I've just had a look at our copy and it's the second revised edition 1975. Utterly brilliant book. Contains chapters on buying for quality , 12 months of recipes, basic cooking methods, wine, equipping a kitchen, freezing. I learnt a lot from it.
She actually said the words “when I released a cookbook with recipes for seasonal eating, no one else was doing it!”. All 3 of them to be fair were talking about how seasonal eating had all of a sudden become trendy. But Jack in particular was incredulous that she was doing it ‘before everyone else’ and everyone ignored her at the time.
I used to think it was the Jamie Oliver nonsense that was the turning point for me but thinking about it it may have been this.
How on earth does some Relatively small not particularly inspiring, early 30s food blogger think they’ve invented everything?
What's with the caterpillar on her face
Aren't pillow cases supposed to cover the pillows?
Knew she’d be happy about the gif
Is she going to add "Taking terrifying upside down selfies" to her ever-expanding list of sleeping aids that's she's TRIED and that DON'T bleeping WORK, thankyou?
Argh!! The eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
I think she may have one of those 'Invisible' retainer/braces things.. Or she could do with running a brush over her teeth.
I can’t imagine sleeping with no top on! 
Except the whites, which by contrast are somehow whiter than her bleeping pillows.
Least they’re her proper teeth again not those big comedy dentures
You don’t need to she’s kiiiiiindly provided a ph0t0I can’t imagine sleeping with no top on!
Nobody who eats what she claims she does has eyes that white. Babies don’t have eyes that white.
She must have Mrs J the 4th?..5th? on the hook.
Twitter silence and then half naked selfies from bed?
Twitter silence and then half naked selfies from bed?
Clearly freezing at chateaux crappy bungalow. Also that escaping pillow is getting on my non R&P clad tatas.
I’ve always found Allegra’s really into offally meat etc that I don’t really like.
Also, not seen this mentioned before, but sorry if it has. Isn’t it weird that their split was timed with Jack’s abandoned transition and Veganism?
Jack changing gender to a man, and deciding to go full, very vocal vegan lamenting the errors of her disgusting meat eating ways when she was in a relationship with a woman who appears to have a strong preference for both women and meat.
This combined with the things Jack’s said about Allegra (angry, always correcting her) it almost seems like both of those extreme choices that were dropped almost as quickly as they were adopted were an act of spiteful defiance to get her out of the relationship.
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