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These reviews are of books I have personally purchased and read from cover to cover.
Because they are not made up of words copied from the dust jacket
or a publicist's blurb, they might have the potential to offend
some authors. So be it.
| THE COMPLETE AUSTRALIAN
BARBECUE KETTLE COOKBOOK |
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By Ross McDonald and Margaret Kirkwood
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This publication, now in its umpteenth printing,
was written by Australian Weber Representative Ross McDonald and
Margaret Kirkwood a gourmet cook and well known cookery educator.
It's a big book containing 216 oversize pages and
many of these feature enormous photographs of beautifully presented
dishes. Everything is there from bacon and eggs for breakfast through
to barbecued leg of goat, braised buffalo and smoked wild duck.
Salads, dressings, desserts and sauces are also featured in this
full-colour, hard-cover publication.
In Australia, this book has long been a favourite
present for the kids to give their Dad (or Mum for that matter)
on the Christmas or birthday when he/she receives their first kettle
barbecue. I think one of its great strengths is that it assumes
nothing - absolutely nothing. The first 30 pages (and they're very
big pages remember) take the novice through preparing the kettle
for grilling or roasting including how to stack the charcoal, controlling
the temperature, carving meat and trouble shooting.
The rest of
the book has many tips and new ideas for even the most experienced
kettle cook. And many of the recipes can be readily adpated to indirect cooking in most hooded gas barbeques.
My brother-in-law managed to cook a more than edible
roast on his brand new kettle barbecue by following this book.
The closest thing he owned to a cooking appliance before he was given the
new Weber was a mobile phone (used for reserving tables at restaurants!).
ORIGIN: Australia
FIRST PUBLISHED: 1988
VERDICT: You can't call yourself a dinkum downunder barbequer if you don't have a copy of this book.
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