Eating Royally: Recipes and Remembrances from a Palace Kitchen | Darren McGrady

Eating Royally: Recipes and Remembrances from a Palace Kitchen | Darren McGrady | Wonderful!

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	Eating Royally: Recipes and Remembrances from a Palace Kitchen Darren McGrady Thomas Nelson, 2007 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 16 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Darren McGrady began working for the Royal Family as a pastry chef and quickly moved up the ranks to serve as Diana's personal chef until her death in 1997. Here he presents many of the recipes he served the Royals, and Diana in particular. Filled with artifacts, personal notes, photographs and never-before-seen memorabilia, this is much more than a cookbook. It is an opportunity to see how the Royals really live and to eat the exact recipes that graced the tables of Windsor, Balmoral, Kensington, and Buckingham Palaces.

Recipes Include:

Her Majesty's Birthday Chocolate Cake Framboises St. George Poached Eggs Suzettes Chicken and Leek Pie Steak Diane Cottage Pie Croques Monsieur, and much, much more.

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Can I give this book 10 stars?

I love this book!
I love the recipes and the stories.
This is truly a book that is great for a gift or yourself.
Recipes are well nice!

Wonderful!

Elegant and beautiful book. Great to give as a gift. Recipes are wonderful. Very well put together, as a cook book and keepsake.

Eating Royally....wonderful , inviting,

This was well worth the investment. It contains many recipes served to the Royal family. Wonderful pictures and information on the Queen's dinner events and occasions. Filled with many memories of the food service given by Chef Darren McGrady. I would recommend it to any one who is interested in the Royal family lifestyles.

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Royal Cookbook/Memoir in Very Good Taste

This is a wonderful cookbook on several levels and I am happy to see that it has received consistently positive reviews!

Darren McGrady deserves congratulations for creating an entertaining cookbook that also delivers delicious recipes. His personal anecdotes about the Queen and Princess Diana are both amusing and discreet.

The book is well structured according to seasons and royal residences, such as Christmas at Sandringham and Autumn at Balmoral. The beginning of each chapter contains an overview of the season and location, and Chef McGrady weaves his own professional memoir into this structure.

Copies of formal menus, handwritten notes of instruction from the royal family, and informal snapshots of the various royal kitchens are interspersed in an elegant scrapbook fashion. Then come the recipes for the chapter, back to back.

Favorite recipes of the royal family are included, many with an introductory paragraph of just what it was that made that particular recipe so special to the individual. I must add, though, that you will have fun reading between the lines in a description of a culinary episode about a former duchess. You will have to admit, Darren McGrady has style.

The recipes that I have tried so far come from the Kensington Palace section, nicely subtitled "A Home for All Seasons." These are Princess Diana's favorites and are lighter and more contemporary. I particularly enjoyed the stuffed aubergines and the lobster Thermidor (OK, not so light and not so contemporary, but a delicious classic). And after eating a salad with the Pureed Herb Dressing, I have to take a bit of bread to sponge up the remaining dressing because it is that good. The recipes that I tried worked perfectly and most of them are accompanied by photographs.

This was very neatly done. I was left with the impression of a great chef, good writer, and generous man: 100% of the proceeds of this book go to the Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric Aids Foundation.

Naughty thought: I wonder how Paul Burrell, Diana's tell-all butler, feels about this?

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Eating Royally: Recipes and Remembrances from a Palace Kitchen

Very enjoyable book with beautiful illustrations. Mouth-watering recipes included as well as the feeling the author knew and loved the royal family.

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