Jo Seagar Cooks by Jo Seagar
This is a departure from Jo Seagar's usual style it's bigger and more substantial and more mid-market than most of her previous books. It's an essential cookbook, one that works for home cooking and home entertaining, not too hard but not too basic. Jo has established a cooking school/shop/accommodation in Oxford, Canterbury (see www.joseagar.com for details) and her image is moving more upmarket while remaining middle of the range. She also has an Aga stove (as well as a conventional oven) and will do cooking classes especially for this. Jo Seagar Cooks includes a lot of classics, but with a twist eg Breakfast spuddy fry-up, fresh bay and manuka honey cake, lamb cutlets with fesh mint and chilli chutney and 'gooey in the centre' molten chocolate puds. There are over 100 recipes. Jo's personality comes through strongly with chit-chat about the recipes when appropriate. The great design uses atmospheric shots of the Canterbury countryside and incidental shots of interiors and fabrics to give a warm but stylish country feel. It appeals to the mainstream but it's also aspirational the perfect home and perfect food we all want.
Jo Seagar dubbed cook of the nation' by Next magazine is the hugely successful bestselling cookbook author and TV cook, famed for her catch-cries of Easy peasy' and Maximum effect for minimum effort'. Trained as a cordon bleu chef in Paris and London, for many years Seagar was a columnist for North & South magazine, while running popular Hartley's restaurant in Auckland. She also wrote for the New Zealand Woman's Weekly, and worked with The Warehouse and Chelsea Sugar. Real Food for Real People saw her move into television, and this series was a followed by Jo Seagar Cooks, bringing the chef known for her pearls and her easy-peasy' catch-cry to a wider audience. She was ahead of the curve in the whole seasonal/local/simple food-done-well philosophy' (Weekend Herald). Her promotion of fresh local ingredients with cooking that should be a doddle', combined with her humorous down-to-earth approach, has endeared her to the nation, with the first edition of her classic You Shouldn't Have Gone to So Much Trouble, Darling selling over 70,000 copies. A real sense of joy and passion infuses her approach to cooking
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| ISBN 13 | 9781869418144 |
| ISBN 10 | 186941814X |
| Title | Jo Seagar Cooks |
| Author | Jo Seagar |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House New Zealand Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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