Graham Kerr

While I can actually eat some of the recipes in this book (with some substitutions) a lot of the recipes aren't what I'd call gourmet cooking. There's a wide range of cooking abilities represented, and most recipes look very healthy. Quite a lot of the book is taken up with the authors' personal experiences, and philosophies on food, as well as suggestions on how to follow in their dietary footsteps. These aren't something I'll be following through on.
I'm rating this as three stars, however show more this is based purely on my reading of the book, as I haven't actually cooked any of the meals. show less

In this volume of Galloping Gourmet television cookbooks, Graham Kerr starts things off by walking the reader through his concept of cooperative dinner parties and S.P.O.D.E (Society for the Propagation of Delicious Eating), probably the most unappetizing acronym you'll ever come across. The rest of the book is divided into sections for each course of the meal, from the First Course to Desert. Many of Kerr's recipes are rather ambitious, and the average person won't find much along the way show more of casual dining recipes, but there are plenty of interesting dished in here for the adventurous home chef. show less

The galloping gourmet was one of the first modern TV cooks I remember - post Fanny Cradock cooks, I mean. He was great fun unlike the plethora of self-opinionated, self-serving and self- important types on TV today.

The first volume of the cookbook series based on the Galloping Gourmet television show, this cookbook is structured around the intention of holding a Dinner Party ("Cocktail parties are social suicide") and entertaining your small gathering of guests with good food. Recipes within range in complexity and elaborateness, but all are guaranteed to impress, with the Wineburger and Bluff Bolar among my personal favorites.