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Poor Cook: Fabulous food for next to nothing

Poor Cook: Fabulous food for next to nothing

by Susan Campbell and Caroline Conran

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As Susan Campbell and Caroline Conran point out, economical food need not be dull and dreary. 'Eating cheaply,' they say, 'does not mean buying inferior expensive ingredients, but good cheap ones. In Poor Cook they show you how to prepare fabulous food for next to nothing. A treasure house of both well-loved traditional dishes and more unusual recipes for soups, pates, pastas and much more, it also contains some of the clearest diagrams ever published on how to carve meat and bone fish and chicken.

"A very good book . . . bringing back memories of simple food that has been forgotten in the overwhelming flood of prepacked and convenience foods" Elizabeth Ray, The Observer

"The kind of cookery book which gives you hope even if all you can afford is half a dozen eggs" Yorkshire Post

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Original Publisher
Macmillan
Date of publication
1971
ISBN
1908337133

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Behind the Cookbook: 50 Years of Poor Cook

Behind the Cookbook: 50 Years of Poor Cook

In 1971, half a century ago, two young mothers wrote a book that captured the spirit of the time, and still has strong resonance to this day. Poor Cook focuses on good simple cooking from scratch. Its “do what you can with what’s available” ethos is very much in keeping with today’s imperative to reduce food waste. We spoke to the two co-authors who told us how they came to write the book….

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