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Action Cook Book by Len Deighton (Hardcover, 2009)

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'I am going to cook you the best meal you have ever tasted in your life...' Harry Palmer to Sue Lloyd in 'The Ipcress Files' 'Len was a great cook, a smashing cook. I learned a lot about food from playing Harry Palmer' Michael Caine If you look carefully at Harry Palmer's kitchen in the classic film 'The Ipcress Files' you will notice a newspaper pinned on the wall. This is one of Len Deighton's classic cookstrips, the series that ran for two years when he was the Observer food writer. Because before he became famous as the thriller writer of his generation, Len Deighton had trained as a pastry chef. He was also a brilliant graphic artist (his credits include the first ever UK cover for Kerouac's 'On The Road'). 'The Action Cookbook' is the perfect mix of these two passions, created for the hero of his third passion. 'The Action Cook Book' was once an instructional book for the bachelor male - a guide to sophisticated cooking for the would-be Harry Palmer. It now has a great following as a fabulous piece of nostalgia as well as retaining real credibility as a genuinely useful cook book. If you need to create the basic wine cellar (basic to Len Deighton - decidedly aspirational to the rest of us), or to learn how to cook full-bodied meals with a seductive touch (how could you resist brain souffle? - 'brains are a very good constituent for a souffle. They are delicious fried, or in any of the piquant wine sauces'), then this is the book for you.

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PublisherHarperCollins

ISBN-139780007305872

eBay Product ID (ePID)90119474

Product Key Features

Book TitleAction Cook Book

AuthorLen Deighton

FormatHardcover

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

GenreCookbooks, Food & Drink

Number of Pages320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height136mm

Item Width203mm

Item Weight420g

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Title_AuthorLen Deighton

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by 0881richardm
08 Jan, 2025
Well worth the small investment!
Great book. Excellent simple and straightforward recipes. Have been using it for decades and now bought copies for family members.
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by gail442014
04 Feb, 2024
Well set out recipes.
I owned this book many years ago and learnt a lot of cooking advice from its pages. I was very pleased to replace it with another copy. Many thanks.
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by victorihanna_3
25 Jul, 2023
A classic from a great writer a brilliant cook book
A great vintage cook book
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by eddieishard
21 Jan, 2025
Really interesting read - and extremely ...
Really interesting read - and extremely useful.
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by ma.stua
15 Aug, 2018
Harry Palmer.
Great book for the aspiring Harry Palmer’s out there....
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by antsut_78
17 Feb, 2021
Len is the Man
A classic cookbook, delighted to see it back in print.
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by gtw24xx
27 Jun, 2018
its fine
its fine
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by jgl-jim-uauivdjsds
08 Jun, 2016
Action cook book
By far my favourite spy story author, but the cookbook disappointing. Not easy to read and nothing really new. Learn far more from Delia, Nigella etc. Won't stop me re-reading all the wonderful fiction from this author.
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