Moro: The Cookbook Paperback – March 1, 2003

Great cookbook. I’ve not been to the London restaurant but friends and family say it’s fabulous. Friends prepared a dinner from this book and I was so impressed I bought it immediately. And then I purchased it again, as a gift for a Spanish descended California vintner friend who loves to cook. It went down very well.

It’s the sort of cookbook that has you replanning your meals for the week and going out shopping for ingredients you might not normally get.

The backstory for this is supposed to be the Moorish influence on Spanish cooking. It starts out with Baba Ganoush, Tabbouleh, Falafel, and Kibbeh, but then then it moves into Croquetas de Jamon, Manteca Colorado, and a chestnut and chorizo soup, which is hard to align with Moorish cooking. That said, I can picture using about half of the recipes in this book, which is a lot higher percentage than most books. There are some excellent ideas here and some good side information. Also, the dry measures are in weight, rather than volume, making it a lot easier to duplicate. All of the measures are in metric, which might terrorize some, but is very straightforward. It has become hard to find measuring cups and kitchen scales that don't include metric. Oven temperatures are in C, F, and the weird British single digit settings.

superb - wish it was available for kindle..... but one of the best cookbooks out there... this book is filled with passion and I can stop rabbiting on actually - it's already famous. If you've been to a mate's house and they've prepared something that's at once clever and simple and all kinds of different... chances are it's from this book.

There's nothing to dislike! It opens new windows on Spanish cuisine for you to enjoy.

Moro is a great restaurant and the cook books are as well. They have expanded my cooking range. I go back to them again and again and on the rare occasion when I am in London I eat at the restaurant enjoying it each time.

I am thinking I maybe misread the description because it is not exactly what I thought it was going to be. The book itself is well-written and was in excellent condition (I purchased used from a 3rd party), but it was not exactly what I was looking for. There are a few recipes I'd like to try, but it has been sitting on my coffee table for several weeks now and I haven't even finished the first read through. A lot of the recipes are too daunting for me as a cook....mostly because of being so time consuming or requiring multiple days to complete. As a cook, I am looking for things that are easy and nutritious and tasty. While these sound tasty and nutritious, they are often not quick meals to prepare. It reads more like a semi non-fiction novel with recipes thrown in than a cookbook. Again, I think it is more in how I understood the description rather than what the book itself is intended to be, but I was looking for something different.

a great book.....true to Spanish cooking....a breath of fresh air from all those cookbooks that look alike and leave you blah