Poor Cook

Poor Cook, which rapidly became a household classic and today is still quoted in lifestyle magazines, was originally published at the height of the 1971 recession and the rising threat of supermarket convenience food. The book is aimed at busy families with young children and contains over 300 recipes showing how to make cheaper cuts of meat into delicious dishes, do more interesting things with vegetable, pulses or pasta, etc. Instructions are straightforward and, mercifully for those of us who are sometimes intimidated by those fabulous staged pictures of wonderful concoctions, the book contains no photos!