I cannot believe how easy these recipes are. This is defiantly a cook book to buy. The pictures are gorgeous, it's wonderfully explained and includes a DVD showing how to make about five of the recipes. My mouth waters just flipping through. It's perfect for a beginner home cook.

Really enjoy watching english chefs such as G.Ramsay, J.Oliver, even found the delicious Ms Dahl a pleasure to watch recently. Was wondering if Gordon Ramsay actually knew how to cook, because I hadn't actually seen him cooking in his show "Kitchen Nightmares"; but I remember him cooking just a little in the "F word". I like some of Ramsay's recipes in this particular book, I want to try his Lemon Pie but I don't know where on earth I'll be able to find a blow torch for the caramelised crust on top! Some of his ingredients/tools aren't something we normal non-chefs have just lying around. His repetitive use of free-range eggs/yolks/chickens gets a little tiring, geez Gordon- we get it, some people don't actually earn a chef's salary & can't afford to eat only the best ingredients- and tiger prawns/salmon/asparagus/mullet aren't things that we can eat every day! I wish he'd put in a little more traditional english recipes, like a few different pie recipes or something...Don't get me wrong, I do actually enjoy watching his shows, but I expected just a little bit more from him.

Good looking recipes, easy to follow directions. I had to Google a few ingredients

After seeing him for years on tv, and hearing his opinions on Masterchef (among other shows), I decided to buy one of his cookbooks. I read a recommendation on Barnes & Noble that said this book is good for home cooks, that the recipes are more like everyday cooks would use.

I'm not sure if that description fits. There are more fish recipes in this cookbook than any other cookbook that's not labeled "Fish Cookbook"! More than half of the meat recipes are for fish. Which may just encourage me to cook more fish :) I like fish. I do. But for some reason, I just don't want to cook it. His recipes may give me the confidence to cook some fish.

There are more than fish recipes in this book; there are stews, soups, lamb, vegetables, and even one I don't believe I have in any of my cookbooks: chateaubriand!

Again, I haven't tested any of the recipes for ease of following, or turning out as intended. That takes some time. However, it'll remain near my kitchen to give me every opportunity to try out cooking as the English do it ;)

my son wants to be a chief, and we love Hell's kitchen. We started watching Hell's Kitchen because I wanted him to see the kind of people he could be working for, and the pressure situations, etc. In spite of all that, he still wants it.

His recipes seemed very easy to make, but he uses alot of seafood. Which I do not like.

Ingredients. 1 cup dry red wine, or water. 1 cup chicken stock, or reduced-sodium canned broth. 1/2 teaspoon salt. Garlic-Roasted Leg of Lamb.

This book is filled with simple yet delicious recipes made by my favorite English chef. I enjoyed reading his views of qualities of meats and breads while giving advice of what types of produce and products to look for and the best ways to prepare and cook them. I hope that I will one day be able to achieve success as that of Gordon Ramsay with my own culinary desires and acting wishes.

Hmm, it's all been done before.
A lose ragbag of recipes cobbled together in book form for no apparent rhyme or reason other than to make money.
Who buys these books ?
My reason was it was a withdrawn from my library at 30p, but listed at £20, no way.
It's large and thick, mostly due to far to many unneeded photos that add nothing useful. Far too many photos of himself and his children for heavens sake, and an oversize font.
Days were when you typed a thesis using double line spacing to make it look longer than it was, this is the cookbook equivalent.

I am sure if you love fish and seafood that this is the best cookbook ever....so much fish. Loved that the recipes were simple and fairly straight-forward.

The man is amazing

Every recipe I've tried out of this book has been excellent, and, as an added bonus, the pictures are beautiful.