Miss Dahl’s Voluptuous Delights

Es una belleza de libro, ella tenía un programa en la BBC de Londres, amé todas sus recetas. Tiene una forma hermosa de escribir. Un must para quien le guste la cocina!

Buenisimo. Tiene unos postres estupendos, e ideas bastante originales. Lo único difícil es aclararse con las medidas, y algunos ingredientes difíciles de encontrar en España. Me ha llegado en muy buen estado

Well written book, with many little annecdotes for all seasons. Beautiful pictures. Recommended by Jamie Oliver.

I bought it because I read a couple of VOGUE reviews, plus an article she wrote explaining a bit of how the book took shape, and telling a little about herself. I've read 'Playing with the grown-ups' by her also, but I didn't like it as much, because I found it too "troublant" to really be able to enjoy reading it (I'm more of a Jane Austen person).But in the other hand, with 'Miss Dahl's Voluptuous Delights', I was mesmerized... Not only her recipes are really appetizing, but the message of the book itself is beautiful. To me, the strength of it is what it makes the reader feel: we share her utter love for food, and can't wait to lead a peaceful, harmonious and healthy life... It is specially thanks to the little introductory texts she writes at the beginning of each part of the book (it is very originally and cleverly divided: 4 parts, one for each season of the year, and a final part for desserts), which being autobiographical, show how personal her book is, but also how universal. Thanks to her struggles to find balance in her life, we understand the choices of the ingredients, and the dishes, and the kind of life she wants to lead, everything.It is just inspiring. The pictures are also wonderful, and I strongly recommend to read it at least once as if it were a regular novel. Then, when imbibed with the flavour of her funny and delicious narrative, you must give a closer look to the recipes themselves, and be marvelled by their surprising touches and interesting combinations.Her style is very homy, but with a modern touch: she combines traditional cuisine with sparkling touches of italian/asiatic/... gastronomy here and there.As I said, simply inspiring.

The book is spilt into the four seasons and then spilt down again into breakfast, lunch and dinner. The recipes themselves are quite simple and Sophie has included some nice meat dishes despite being vegetarian herself.But the main reason I have given this book five stars is because of where it happens to fit into my life, this isn't what I would call a family cookbook, but then there are plenty of those around. I do have a family and quite often I'm home all day throughout the week with my toddler. Sometimes on these days I want to cook myself something simple but a little more special than the endless toast and cereal combo. This is where I will quite often reach for this book and make myself something like one of the pasta dishes, a breakfast burrito or one of the omelettes etc. No it's not dinner party stuff but it is tasty and quick to make.I will add however that the banana bread is almost worth the cost of this book alone.