Reviews

The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Notes from the French Countryside by Kate Gridley, Amanda Hesser

portal54's review against another edition

3.0

I'm reading this for the gardening portions not the cooking part. I skip over the recipes. The "Cook" is the narrator- a cook at a large villa in France. She has to have frequent interactions with the crusty French gardener and gives many descriptions of his methods.

bahoulie's review against another edition

3.0

The recipes we used were quite tasty, but had some mistakes that would have tripped up a novice and much of the book wasn't all that interesting.

eupomene's review against another edition

3.0

I started this with some disappointment -- I had thought it was a book of food essays and not a cookbook format, but then it turned out to have so much writing about food in it that I was happily surprised. I especially enjoyed the seasonal aspect to it, and just read straight through, taking in the recipes as I went. A beautiful book for cooks, gardeners, and those who love to eat good food.