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Meals in Minutes
Ainsley Harriott's Meals in Minutes [Hardcover] Harriott, Ainsley
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First published February 12, 1998
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Ainsley Harriott
31 books12 followersA generation of viewers has watched Ainsley barbecue his way around the world, rustle up speedy meals in minutes and host the longest running cookery series in the world.
Before launching his TV cooking career, Ainsley worked as a chef in hotels and restaurants across London after training at Westminster Catering College. He worked in the kitchens of Verreys, The Strand Palace, The Dorchester and Browns amongst others, and set up his own catering company – “I’ve worked at every level of the catering business – and I think that it’s an enormous advantage to know how to make delicious beans on toast as well as Lobster Thermidor.”
In the early 1990s, when Ainsley was Head Chef of the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground a producer asked him to present what became the first of his cookery series, and almost twenty years later, he is still hard at it. Perhaps it’s because Ainsley’s food reflects the needs of real life – it is diverse and delicious but easy to prepare and speedy to cook.
Ainsley is also a No.1 best selling author and he has sold more than two million books worldwide, with co-editions in Dutch, Danish, Slovenian, Romanian and American. His best sellers include the Meals in Minutes series, Barbecue Bible and Friends and Family. His most recent book, Just Five Ingredients is full of quick, practical and delicious family meals using only five ingredients.
Ainsley is extremely proud to be patron of the independent British-registered charity The Kasiisi Porridge Project which gives rural schoolchildren living near the Kibale National Park in western Uganda a meal every day.
Before launching his TV cooking career, Ainsley worked as a chef in hotels and restaurants across London after training at Westminster Catering College. He worked in the kitchens of Verreys, The Strand Palace, The Dorchester and Browns amongst others, and set up his own catering company – “I’ve worked at every level of the catering business – and I think that it’s an enormous advantage to know how to make delicious beans on toast as well as Lobster Thermidor.”
In the early 1990s, when Ainsley was Head Chef of the Long Room at Lord’s Cricket Ground a producer asked him to present what became the first of his cookery series, and almost twenty years later, he is still hard at it. Perhaps it’s because Ainsley’s food reflects the needs of real life – it is diverse and delicious but easy to prepare and speedy to cook.
Ainsley is also a No.1 best selling author and he has sold more than two million books worldwide, with co-editions in Dutch, Danish, Slovenian, Romanian and American. His best sellers include the Meals in Minutes series, Barbecue Bible and Friends and Family. His most recent book, Just Five Ingredients is full of quick, practical and delicious family meals using only five ingredients.
Ainsley is extremely proud to be patron of the independent British-registered charity The Kasiisi Porridge Project which gives rural schoolchildren living near the Kibale National Park in western Uganda a meal every day.
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November 25, 2024
I loved this book, it came out in 1998 to sit alongside his tv programme, and looking back it must have seemed ground breaking. He was cooking food which we were a bit out of our depth with, yet he drew you in and suddenly there you were standing in the shop looking for tarragon, black olives, salami, guacamole and various things which my local didn't stock. To this day I still make chicken and sweetcorn soup a la Ainsley Harriott, and the pasties full of chilli beans (firm favourite of my infant school son who used to insist on taking them in his lunchbox to eat cold for lunch), oh and the gorgeous finger-licking chicken wings (another one my son used to filch a few of and sneak into the said lunchbox). Those were the days Ainsley, those were the days! You were in the foreground of cooking. Certainly never the background. (Well you did wear colourful shirts...).
Ainsley's books are never going into a charity shop, I may need them in my dotage and losing my marbles (well you never know) and forgetting how to cook his chicken soup, his pasties and his much eaten in this household, his chicken wings. Well they were chicken thighs sometimes, and weeell chicken breasts, I know I know ground breaking in this household.
Ainsley's books are never going into a charity shop, I may need them in my dotage and losing my marbles (well you never know) and forgetting how to cook his chicken soup, his pasties and his much eaten in this household, his chicken wings. Well they were chicken thighs sometimes, and weeell chicken breasts, I know I know ground breaking in this household.
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