Recipes From My Mother Book Reviews

Recipes From My Mother by Rachel Allen Book Summary

Full of warmth and nostalgia, Rachel shares culinary inspiration passed down through the generations.

Rachel’s food is heart-warming. She uses gorgeous ingredients that are used in abundance to create comforting, vibrant meals. Her love of food started when she was very young, sitting in the kitchen with her mother, helping and tasting. Her mother taught her their Scandi family recipes, as well as those she picked up from living in Ireland. Rachel become more and more passionate about food as she grew up, and she drew inspiration from her childhood memories of helping her mother cook and sitting round with her family enjoying delicious meals and treats. Here she celebrates the food memories of her childhood, alongside those of friends and other members of her family. Packed with much-loved recipes and stunning photography, this is the book to fall back in love with cooking.

Reviews

Praise for Rachel Allen:

‘… the Irish Nigella (except prettier, blonde and a better cook)… Bake is simply and engagingly written: one irresistible thing after another’ Evening Standard

‘A natural TV chef: relaxed, articulate and knowledgeable.’ Sunday Times

‘Food for real people.’ Irish Examiner

‘Ireland’s blond and beautiful equivalent of Nigella Lawson… is taking her place on the international culinary scene with her everyday food that focuses on simple suppers and divine puddings’ Daily Mail

About the author

Rachel Allen was brought up in Dublin and at the age of eighteen left to study at the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School. Today, she not only teaches at the school, she also writes regular features for national publications, presents highly acclaimed television programmes which have been broadcast internationally. She is the winner of the 2012 Irish Book Award for Best Non-Fiction for Easy Meals.

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