The Bad Cook

by Esther Walker

The ebook inspired by the hugely popular Recipe Rifle blog.

One of the funniest cookbooks you are ever likely to read. And definitely the sweariest.

For over three years now, Esther Walker has been entertaining foodies with her hilarious Recipe Rifle blog. Charting her progress from bad cook to, well, not-so-bad cook, she is blistering honest about what works, and what doesn’t, in the kitchen. If a recipe works for her, it will probably work for you. If it doesn’t, she will swear quite a lot.

Crammed full of recipes, tips for entertaining, stories of pregnancy and tales of her husband (restaurant critic Giles Coren) coming home drunk, The Bad Cook will make you laugh out loud. It will also make you want to start cooking.

Genres: Nonfiction, Food, Cookbooks, Ebooks

250 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2013

Reviews

[Olivia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just want to BE Esther Walker. <3

[A.E. Shaw · Rating 5 out of 5]

I ADORE this book. Adore it. It's full of oh-yes-me-too things and life wisdom and things that make me glad that I've never had a baby and things that I imagine are good for reading if you have and can't remember why and recipes that actually do work and are really rather inspirational and a fondness for Waitrose that makes me all the more determined to get back to living near one.

I've read the Recipe Rifle blog for years, and so some of this book I remember very well, and some of it I'd forgotten, and a few bits were new. I'd never tried cooking anything off of it before, but now I have, and I'm glad for it, and let me tell you, the sausage and cabbage hotpot thing is a *ludicrously* delicious and clever meal to make, honestly, try it immediately.

Further, this is really funny, in handy short bits, and supremely honest and on the mark about basically everything. It doesn't cost much. You might well improve your life by acquiring it.

[Stacey Woods · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used to read Recipe Rifle and this book is the best - and most hilarious - bits!