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|title=Delia's How to Cook - Book 3

|author=Delia Smith

|genre=Cookery

|summary=The final book in the three-book How to Cook series is a considerable improvement on Book 2 but is not as good as her earlier work. However, if you want advice on catering for parties and gatherings this might be a good investment.

|rating=4

|buy=No

|borrow=Yes

|pages=240

|publisher=BBC Books

|date=December 2001

|isbn=0563534699

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I've got great admiration for anyone who undertakes a big project: personally I have the attention span of a butterfly. Delia Smith was talking to her priest one day when he lamented the lack of cooking skills in the younger generation and their reliance on expensive and poor quality convenience foods. Delia promised that she would remedy this: we would, she decided, be taught "How to Cook", in books one, two and three with accompanying television series.

So, would I recommend the book, or by extension the series? I think book 2 is the weak link, but each book does stand on its own and I'm happy to have this book for the final chapter alone. There are more recipes which I feel to be truly original as opposed to reworkings of previously published recipes and there's sound advice on such new beasts as bread makers and ice cream machines. On balance though I think I'd buy a novice the original Delia Smith's Cookery Course - in fact that's what I bought for my own daughter.

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