River Cafe Two Easy

by Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers

Molto buono — over 150 deliciously easy recipes from the founders of London’s famous, Italian cuisine restaurant, River Café — stylish cooking without the hassle.

Following the massive success of their first book, River Café Cook Book Easy, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray have created yet another superb book based on the same principle of perfect, no-hassle Italian food.

River Café Cookbook Easy pioneered a new approach to cooking and eating. Taking into account today’s frenetic lifestyles, Ruth and Rose set out to dispel the notion that stylish and healthy food means spending hours in the kitchen. Now, their new book takes even more of the hassle out of midweek cooking and weekend entertaining, making it easier still to create delicious, nutritious yet elegant meals in moments.

In River Café Two Easy, Ruth and Rose have created a selection of delightfully simple mozzarella recipes, easy-to-assemble salads, perfect pasta, grilled meat and fish recipes, and special-occasion cakes and puddings, none of which require hours spent in the kitchen. Instead, the delicious results come from the wonderful flavours in the fresh, readily available ingredients.

With recipes like Potato and pancetta soup; Tomato, dried porcini and parmesan pasta; Lemon and almond tart; and Pannacotta with chocolate, this book will have you planning tomorrow’s meals before today’s have been digested.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Reference

304 pages, Hardcover

First published May 23, 2005

About the author

Rose Gray was a celebrated British chef and cookery writer, best known for co-founding The River Café in 1987 with Ruth Rogers. The restaurant, which earned a Michelin star in 1998, became a launchpad for a generation of chefs, including Jamie Oliver, Theo Randall, and April Bloomfield. Rose’s influence on the culinary world was immense, with many of her protégés citing her as a key mentor.
Along with Ruth, she authored several cookbooks, including The River Café Cookbook and River Café Green, which have become classics in Italian cuisine. Gray also shared her love for Italian food with a broader audience through the 1998 Channel 4 series The Italian Kitchen.
Her career was not just defined by her cooking, but by her charitable work as well. Gray became a Breast Cancer Ambassador after her own diagnosis and co-founded the Cooks in Schools charity. She spent part of her life in Tuscany, where her passion for authentic Italian food truly flourished.
Rose’s legacy lives on through her cookbooks, the many chefs she mentored, and the River Café, which continues to be a symbol of culinary excellence.

Reviews

[Terri · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love all the River Cafe books. The recipes are good, clean, fresh, simple Italian food. Generally, Non-Anglicised. Authentic and based on the regions that Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers are most experienced in.