these are the best foods!!!!
we made a four corse or was it five corse meal with my cousins and we had a blast and the food was the best!
the story that goes along with it is so cute and the drawings the most darlingest!(is that a word?)

so cute so wonderful but warning a lot of this is just like. uk food. the stuffed mushrooms r so delicious tho and all the little fruit juices & such look so yummy

Although not incredibly well planned, this is such a fun cookbook because Redwall is all about the amazing feasts!

This is a difficult book to review. How exactly does one rate or review a cookbook, especially one that is just as much a fictional narrative as a collection of effective recipes?

Both story and recipes were very good, in my opinion. I'm not sure how exactly the recipes in the book were created, though; did Brian Jacques do it himself (probably not, I'd assume), or at least help with it? Was a chef hired by the publishing company to work up some recipes that fit within the guidelines of the foods described in the Redwall books? Was some entirely different method used? I don't know, but I can tell you that the recipes really do work, and some of them are as good as what I expected when I read about them in the books, which is significantly high praise.

We had originally planned to make more than half a dozen of these recipes as an experimental Redwall feast, but in the end, we tried three of them. The Summer Strawberry Fizz was a good carbonated drink, leaning sort of toward the desserty side. I would recommend adding a bit more ice cream than the proportion listed in the book, and maybe going a shade light on the strawberries; as we finished the pitcher, we ended up with only a small amount of liquid at the bottom, and a lot of semi-solid strawberry mixture. For all of these recipes, I would suggest the cook tweak it to best suit their own needs.

The second dish that we made was the Loamhedge Nut Bread. It had some mild spiciness to it, but could have definitely used some butter or jelly (or both) to enliven it.

The third dish was the Hare's Haversack Crumble, and it was spectacular. Now I can see what Basil Stagg Hare was raving about when he talked about how great it is! This is a fantastic dessert that will impress anyone who eats it, whether or not they've ever read about the famous Redwall Abbey created by Brian Jacques. I love the Hare's Haversack Crumble!

One should not forget that The Redwall Cookbook is a story, too. Brian Jacques leads us back to the golden days of Matthias, Constance the Badgermum, Basil Stagg Hare and Mattimeo, days that I'm sure most Redwall fans miss very much. These are happy days described in the book, days without war and death and dire threats to the peaceful Redwall Abbey. We see Matthias, his son Mattimeo and the others living quietly and at peace, able to simply have fun at the abbey and revel in the lives that they have fought hard and sacrificed for so memorably to build for themselves and their young ones. Redwall is a wonderful place during peacetime; it probably makes more than a few readers almost wish in a tiny corner of their hearts that they were a little animal, so that they could live there.

The Redwall Cookbook is a fine offering in every possible way, and I give it my full recommendation. I would rate it at at least two and a half stars.

Another wonderful read from Brian Jacques! Weaving stories and poems with recipes, Jacques enchants us once again. These stories will always be close to my heart.

my friend said that I have to read this series...

I want to make these :)

This is a great book. One of my biggest memory of reading the Redwall books was the food and feasts and treats, and that it always made me super hungry. Now, you can make some of those foodstuffs. I wish there were more recipes. That's my only complaint.
Merry reading!

love this cookbook :) story throughout and amazing easy cooking!

interesting recipes incorporated into a story

My children's eating habits have always been vulnerable to the manipulations of their favorite fictional characters. If you have children, and have been subjected to "Wonder Pets" , then you'll appreciate how I was able to introduce celery as a worthwhile snack option. (Handy hint- a vegetable peeler will allow you to remove those annoying strings off the back of the stick very easily- throw the peels into your bucket of veggie scraps in the freezer for when you make stock) .This book is a keeper if your kids are like mine. It's got recipes for Leeks, and Stuffed Mushrooms and all manner of things I'd have no hope of getting them to try if "Nunky Baz" and the other forest folk weren't recommending them. How can you tell if your kids are like mine? 1) They're young. 2) They aren't super-tasters or overly picky eaters, but they can be suspicious of new foods. 3) They enjoyed the Red Wall series in all its forms.

I enjoyed it, but on the whole the recipes weren't always reflective of the dishes described in the books, which was disappointing.