Customer Reviews

French Taste

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This is the best kind of cook book - beautiful and useful. It offers easy, elegant cooking and shows that it's simple to have a dinner party-worthy meal on a Monday night (and Tuesday, and Wednesday...). I had a week's worth of meals planned within 30 minutes of first opening it. Be sure to read the little essays. They're delightful and make you stop to think.

My husband and I are both avid cooks and we purchased this book because we were so pleased with Laura's first one. The pastry recipes quickly became the household classics. These are wonderful, tasty and uncomplicated recipes for truly delicious food. We'd highly recommend this book to any foodie out there.

This book is a no nonsense cookbook and is a great companion to her show French Food at Home. Unlike the the some other shows =that are on Food TV she is unpretentious and very entertaining. Food TV needs a new TV editor one who is interested in airing people that want to teach cooking and now show all of the crap. NBK and the likes are obnoxious no less. What good is a cooking show if it does not teach cooking. That is the reason I did not like the Galloping Gourmet. We had to order the book from Amazon Canada because it was not available stateside.

Good cooking in the final analysis, depends on two things: common sense and good taste.I like to cook and I enjoy eating good food, and Laura Calder's Good Taste includes recipes that are easy to make and the end result is delicious. French food can include a lot of butter and cream, but the recipes in this book have ingredients that even those of us counting calories can enjoy. Her tips on baking pastry blind, make so much sense, having had countless pie shells collapse,why did I not think to fill the shell to the top with dried beans, not just a few on the bottom of the shell.Well done Laura, I am enjoying this book immensely

Laura has a way of making French food so easy for anyone! This book contains many of the recipes from her Food Network Show French Food at Home which is on in the US on the Cooking Channel in 2012. I love to cook along with Laura from the book so glad I found it and trying hard to keep it clean as we drive in to every recipe. I have to order the next book in her collection. Thanks Laura my Grandmother who raised me was French so this book for me is like having her back in the kitchen.

I received this book for Christmas. Not only is Laura Calder's French Taste a beautiful presented book, it is also a very well written book with wonderful, tasty, easy-to-follow recipes. I've tested four recipes so far and they were all outstanding. This is a beautiful book that is a pleasure to sit a day dream over. If you love to cook, buy this book.

As a avid cook, received this book as a christmas present and boy was I pleased!!
I have tried several receipes and they have all come out prefect each time, the receipes as clear, concise and very easy to follow. And she uses ingredients that can be easily found. The pastry recipes well they are just delightful.
However do read her tips as they are very practical and informative.
This book is a "must have" for your Kitchen cookbook library... and all foodies out there.

This is a charming cookbook. Easy to follow and wonderfully written. The results of following the recipes makes you feel like a profession chef. My husband is annoyed with the fact that there is only one photo of Laura in the whole book....TOO BAD BUDDY!

I am a huge fan of Laura Calder. The recipes are easy to follow, and I enjoy her humour and honesty throughout the book.

I watch her show, then find the recipe in the book and try it out. Haven't found one I don't like!

I just wish there were more photos, or pictures showing some of the steps. I think if I didn't watch the episode for some recipes I may not get how they are supposed to look.

This is a great book to add to your cook book collection. The simplicity of most of the recipes is wonderful.

If you like Laura's show, you'll appreciate having this cookbook handy. The recipes are simple and straightforward, with an introductory paragraph followed by the ingredients and recipe instructions.

My one and only complaint is with the typeface used for the page numbering, which is difficult to read.