Men's Cooking
A no-nonsense guide to buying, making and eating great food
by Chris Maillard
£21.99
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If you're the sort of bloke who has trouble telling olive oil from Castrol GTX, you're in luck. Haynes has finally tackled the tricky procedure of cooking.
The Men's Cooking Manual is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to making food that's totally edible - and in some cases even tasty - written in the sort of language that men understand. Simple. To the point. Concise. With a few jokes. And lots. Of. Full. Stops.
Every man's essential guide to buying, preparing and cooking good food to impress - himself, herself or indeed anyone!
Written by Chris Maillard, one of the founding editors of Top Gear magazine and a keen if unflashy cook, the Men's Cooking Manual is for every man who would like to be able to lash together a quick snack, handle a weekday dinner or learn a few impressive tricks to wheel out at special occasions. It covers everything from how to shop, buying and maintaining tools, selecting ingredients and basic cooking styles, through to at least one recipe that is almost guaranteed to burn your house to the ground.
Men's Cooking is packed with seriously useful content, seasoned with a little light illustration in the form of Carol Sharp's photography.
It is guaranteed NOT to include the following:
- Glossy pictures of food stacked into a pile, drizzled with oil and garnished with two crossed chives.
- Recipes which begin "take 6.43 grams of extra virgin Corsican vanilla".
- Words like "exquisite", "luscious", "fabulous" and "tickety-boo".
- Photographs of busty women pretending to do seductive things with asparagus. Shame. We couldn't afford them.
It does, however, include all the best real men's cooking techniques. Like warnings about cooking while drunk, an eye-watering section on chillies, and plenty of naked flames, boiling liquids, sharp knives and other dangerous but somehow tempting things to play with in the kitchen.
Men's Cooking Manual is the perfect gift for food-illiterate, lazy, enthusiastic but clueless or hassled, busy blokes. Which is almost all of them. It's also perfect for any man who is irritated by  celebrity chefs' complicated recipes, annoying mannerisms and smug grins. Which is also almost all of them.
As well as dads it's also a great buy for clueless students leaving home for the first time, working blokes who need swift, easy-to-understand recipes, and older geezers who never learned to cook because it was strictly women's work but always quite fancied a go. Your bachelor uncle Rupert, who always smells slightly of lavender, may prefer something nice by Nigella.
The Men's Cooking Manual is the answer to men's prayers. Or more specifically, the prayer that goes "Christ, I'm starving!". Make food, eat food. It doesn't get any simpler than this.
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What tools do I need? |
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How do I buy decent ingredients? |
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What do I need in my fridge? |
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How do I use a knife properly? |
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What can I make in 10 minutes? |
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How can I impress my mum/wife/date? |
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Which wine should I choose? |
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Does my oven go up to 11? |
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| Author: Chris Maillard is a seasoned journalist. Salt and pepper, mostly, with just a touch of sage. He's worked for Top Gear, Maxim, Restaurant, Ride and umpteen other magazines, and has been a keen if unfussy cook for years. He lives in the East End of London, but really doesn't like jellied eels. |
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