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The Yorkshire-born chef Brian Turner recalled in his memoirs (2000) being given an identical potato dish in his childhood, [16] and Bobby Freeman in a 1997 book about Welsh cuisine gives a recipe for traditional Teisen nionod (onion cake), which she describes as "the same dish as the French pommes boulangère ". [17]
How to Cheat at Cooking is a cookbook by television chef Delia Smith, published in 2008 by Ebury Publishing. It was her first book following her How To Cook series, and had a television series based on the same recipes on BBC Two. Following publication, Smith was criticised by other chefs due to the use of certain ingredients such as canned ...
Potatoes cooked in different ways. The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop.It is the world's fourth-largest food crop, following rice, wheat and corn. [1] The annual diet of an average global citizen in the first decade of the 21st century included about 33 kg (73 lb) of potato. [1]
Delia Ann Smith CH CBE (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a direct style. One of the best-known celebrity chefs in British popular culture , Smith has influenced viewers to become more culinarily adventurous.
The dish was known in its present form, though not under the same name, in the early 19th century: in 1806 Maria Rundell published a recipe for "Sanders", consisting of the same ingredients as cottage or shepherd's pie: minced beef or mutton, with onion and gravy, topped with mashed potato and baked as individual servings.
All five recipes mentioned below, dating from 1806 to 1970, call for the potatoes to be boiled, peeled and sliced, before frying. André Viard, in Le Cuisinier impérial (1806), stipulates that the potatoes are to be sliced and covered with onion purée before being fried in butter and served with sliced onions that have been gently simmered in ...
Delia Ephron invented a term — discardia — for indulging without guilt at New York City’s too-many tempting eateries. “It’s a game you play with yourself. You can buy anything you want ...
Delia Smith called Acton "the best writer of recipes in the English language". [1] Elizabeth David similarly called Modern Cookery "the greatest cookery book in our language". [ 18 ] Bee Wilson , writing in The Telegraph , agrees that it is "the greatest British cookbook of all time", [ 18 ] adding that Acton deserves to be a household name.