Mary Berry's Kitchen Favourites: Informal Everyday Recipes for Family and Friends

by Mary Berry

Hardcover

First published June 7, 2007

About the author

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Mary Berry is an English food writer and television presenter. After being encouraged in domestic science classes at school, she went to college to study catering. She then moved to France at the age of 21 to study at Le Cordon Bleu school, before working in a number of cooking-related jobs.

She has published more than seventy cookery books (her first being The Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook in 1970) and hosted several television series for the BBC and Thames Television. Berry is an occasional contributor to Woman's Hour and Saturday Kitchen. She has been a judge on the BBC One (originally BBC Two) television programme The Great British Bake Off since its launch in 2010.

Reviews

[Sylwia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very nice cook book that could potentially become someones go-to when cooking for any occasion, from a holiday dinner to everyday lunch.

Recipes are split into different categories: soups and starters, fish and seafood, poultry and meat, vegetarian, pasta and rice, vegetables and salads, pies tarts and hot puddings, and chilled puddings. At the end of the book an alphabetical index makes it easier to find recipes in a hurry.

Side by side with classic kitchen staples like French onion soup, Mary serves world cuisine jewels like nasi goreng and chicken satay. All recipes are presented in a clear way with serving size, ingredient lists and numbered list of steps, as well as a photo of the finished product. What is really nice about the book is that a font of the recipe is just big enough that it's readable while cooking.

[Tina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Most of the recipes in here I am proficient in already, in fact in some I am a little better, sorry to say. Not the best recipe book out there, but I like Mary Berry and it is a good book for some things.