{"id":4535,"date":"2008-09-24T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T11:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/wp\/?p=4535"},"modified":"2018-02-26T15:11:32","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T15:11:32","slug":"wise-words-and-country-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wise-words-and-country-ways\/","title":{"rendered":"Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks by Ruth Binney &#8211; review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text-element body\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-4-3 image-review alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/img\/wisdom.jpg\" alt=\"wise words and country ways for cooks\" width=\"242\" height=\"333\" \/> Our language is full of sayings that cover almost every aspect of life. A stitch in time saves nine, All\u2019s well that ends well, Money talks, Like father \u2013 like son, It\u2019s a long way to Tipperary&#8230;er,&#8230;or something like that. Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks, however, focuses on kitchen-based wisdom and gives some sensible and enduring advice on all things culinary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ruth Binney has evident enthusiasm for the collection of this old-time kitchen lore and has produced a book that has a real retro feel about it. It has a style that will be familiar to those of us of a certain age who had access to original 1950s cookbooks, but there is much here that reflects kitchen practice of a century before that. It\u2019s charming.<\/p>\n<p>There are wonderfully evocative sections such as \u201cA woman who has mastered sauces sits on the apex of civilization\u201d, \u201cA Tart Tatin served cold has no merits.\u201d (Now, that\u2019s a bit strong!), \u201cA salad dressing requires a spendthrift for oil, a judge for salt, a miser for vinegar and a madman to mix them.\u201d All very colourful but there is some solid instruction here on cooking techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks isn\u2019t a recipe book but it\u2019s got plenty of tips for cooks. There is advice from some celebrated food writers: Fannie Merritt Farmer writes about frosting (icing), Tabitha Tickletooth (I kid you not) focuses on fish and Shirley Conran will always be remembered for her statement that \u201cLife is too short to stuff a mushroom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the quotes from the noteworthy the rest of the book is pure Ruth Binney. She is a lady who knows her stuff and has a compelling way with words. This volume revels in nostalgia but it\u2019s a book that works not only as an amusing read but as a reminder that advice that was good decades ago is still just as valid today. It will be ideal for lovers of kitchen memorabilia.<\/p>\n<p>Wise Words and Country Ways for Cooks<br \/>\nAuthor: Ruth Binney<br \/>\nPublished by: David and Charles<br \/>\nPrice: \u00a39.99<br \/>\nISBN 978-07153-3008-1<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Cookbook review by Chrissie Walker \u00a9 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our language is full of sayings that cover almost every aspect of life. A stitch in time saves nine, All\u2019s well that ends well, Money talks, Like father \u2013 like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[14,649,1753,1752],"class_list":["post-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-cookbooks","tag-american","tag-food-literature","tag-ruth-binney","tag-wise-words-and-country-ways-for-cooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9564,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions\/9564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}