Forgotten Skills of Cooking: The Time-Honored Ways are the Best - Over 700 Recipes Show You Why Hardcover – March 1, 2022

This book is an amazing resource. It has over 700 recipes and practical advice. I am very excited to work my way through it. This also feels like a great gift to give someone. Darina Allen is a wonderful cook and homesteader so there's a wealth of knowledge in here.

I grew up in Ireland during WW II on my grandad's farm in the West of Ireland.I bought Skills of Cooking by Darina Allen on Amazon .com from Amazon.I was 3 years old when mom took me to visit her parents. We were Irish American Citizens.World War II started in the late spring of 1939. the U>S> citizens were not allowed to sail until 1946. WW II ended in 1844 thanks to TheScreaming Eagles Paratroopers of The US. Military who blocked The Nazis on Normandy Beach.The Band of Brothers another group of U.S. forces parachuted further.England did not help. A hundred scared little Irish American kids and their moms were stranded in Ireland. Nazi planes flew over our farms daily with that terrible swastickapainted on the planes. We were little kids catching the chickens and ducks for our families.We had no protection. President DaValera-an Irish American became President of Ireland. Heinvited the Gestapo to open a headquarters there. Only The North of Ireland had British Troops to protect it.The u.s. Embassy was in Dublin-a few doors from Davalera's office and The Gestapo headquarters.I plucked the feathers out of chickens and ducks, washed them and sometimes cleaned them.Darina Allen reminded me of the wholesome cooking The Irish Farm families did. Our families in the village never used genetically modified feed or seed or food. No farm in the village had electrical appliocances. Our families used black cast iron kettles to boil the meat and poultry. Dorina Allen has brought back real organic cooking and preparing of food. My mom cooked and prepared food the Irish organic way until she died.You'll find information and receipes and organically grown veggies and other produce instructions to make you feel better every day.Its a great book for beginners and seasoned cooks. Anyone can understand it.I

This book has many great recipes, both classic, especially classic Irish and other European, and innovative, like edible flowers frozen in ice cubes for summer drinks. Ver nicely embodies a nose to tail ethic with reminders of composting, preserving, and leftovers.I marked the Kindle edition down. Although the book clearly states that each chapter heading is followed by a list of the chapter's recipes, no such list exists. As partial compensation, the index uses searchable recipe names, but they are not grouped by the same chapter headings. Disappointing... for what otherwise would rise much closer to the top of my (large) cookbook collection.

10000/10. If you only ever own one cookbook, this is it. This cookbook has enough information in it for a lifetime. Excellent tips, recipes and ideas. This cookbook is limitless. Good for anyone interesting in cooking. Novice or expert appropriate. Sending one to everyone I know.

This cookbook applies to all home cooks to professional chefs who want to learn the forgotten skills that have been ignored and neglected over the past 60 years because of modernity, time and how delicious these recipes came out. I think Industrialization, modern way of cooking has wasted a lot of resources and ingredients on how we cook today. As a chef or a line cook, we must NOT waste a lot of fresh ingredients that are supplied us to cook, bake. We even use scraps on baking and use other ingredients for salads, and cooking other dishes. Knowledge and know-how is perhaps valuable on today's age. I am glad Darina Allen and her crew have maintained their ethos cooking Irish food in ways that are possible for today. Even using scraps for recipes. Some of the equipment can be bought from eBay, auction, antique shop or a nearby farm either the old-fashioned way or online.That's why I considered this cookbook so valuable to all new cooks, amateur, advanced cooks, line cooks to professional chefs to get a copy of this book and learn these techniques to use these, and not waste ingredients. But if its rotten, it must be discarded and thrown out.HIghly recommend getting a copy of this cookbook for your kitchen library.

I got This cookbook for my daughter and then bought one for myself this book is very educational and nostalgic. This is a must have for any one who loves to cook or just to read about the subject. Great gift as well.

For what it's worth, I haven't really opened this book much after my initial read of it. Maybe the book just didn't meet the hopes I had for it going in. Many of the recipes, while very solid, weren't particularly different from what I am doing.It maybe is worth pointing out that the author's location and ingredients are decidedly Irish, so certain opportunities to forage or products might be less available to certain cooks. That being said, I hope to eventually take more advantage of her advice on, for instance, proper bleeding time of game birds or dressing of wild hare, once I move out of the city. At some point in the future, I'd like for this book to have a more prominent role in my life and will certainly revisit this review when that time comes.