River Cafe Cook Book Easy

by Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers

The paperback edition of the pioneering and highly successful River Café Cook Book Easy .

With the River Café Cook Book Easy Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers pioneered a new approach to cooking and eating. Knowing that people lead busy and demanding lives, they made their innovative recipes even more accessible to those who love good food but have little time to prepare it. Recognizing that the key to quick cooking is often in the ease of buying the ingredients, the recipes highlight the fresh produce you will need to shop for as well as the ingredients that are store-cupboard essentials. Rose and Ruth then take you through simplified steps to cook great dishes that are bursting with flavour and style.

To complement this new concept, the book has a fresh, dynamic design and superb photographs that will delight both new and established fans. Like River Café “graduates” — most famously Jamie Oliver — you can learn the secrets of cooking fabulous food, but now it’s even easier.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food

276 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14, 2003

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

[Igor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Simple and delicious.

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some nice recipes, mostly italian based. UK ingredients/measurements.