Delia Smith's Complete Cookery Course is the best basic book I have ever been given.
As much as it pains me to admit it.
( Wicca'd Witch needs ideas for a new sig on..., Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:39, archived)

too much for my Dad
you need one for someone who isn't that interested in food, just survival and decent nutrition, IMO.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:41, archived)

Really?
She makes ecerything a right fucking effort. I love my copy of Larousse (or however it's spelt). Other than that it's the internet for me.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:43, archived)

I don't own many cookbooks
But the ones I have are the bollocks. Larousse, River Cafe, Leith's, Rick Stein's seafood, Sophie Grigson's Meat Course, and three Elizabeth David books. Which are superb, quality doesn't age.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:46, archived)

I'm sick of seeing "A Delia Cheat! Ingredient" stickers on stuff in the supermarket.
It's fucking annoying. There's nothing cheating about a jar of sliced jalapenos.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:46, archived)

Actually, I'm not that sick of it.
I hardly ever go to the supermarket anyway.
But it's still annoying. Why should food have a sticker on it just because she's mentioned it in one of her books? If you'd read it, you'd know already, and if you hadn't, you wouldn't give a toss or even know what it meant.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:49, archived)

I think you'd know it meant that you can buy the item guilt free, because it's not cheating and that's on Delia's say so.

( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:51, archived)

I'd kind of presumed it meant it WAS cheating,
fucked if I care about her judgment, she's not the boss of cooking.
She's trying to get people who subsist on ready meals to realise it's not some mystical art, I guess, which is fine in her books and on her TV shows, but I don't expect to be preached to by the lid of things I've been buying for years.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:55, archived)

There's cheating and there's cheating.
Delia endorsed cheating doesn't really count because she is on the TV.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:56, archived)

unless you don't own a Delia Approved™ knife
She's good, but she's not the best.
I admire her for trying to get people cooking mind
( mns 2️⃣2️⃣9️⃣0️⃣7️⃣, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:50, archived)

Yeah,
I actually quite like Jamie Oliver (gasp!) for similar reasons.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:52, archived)

Really?
She makes everything a right fucking effort.
( Neptune A dole queue dosser and foul mouthed chav., Sun 7 Jun 2009, 21:53, archived)