(I put this review on Goodreads but the censorship on that website was
a bit stiffling, and most of the other reviews are garbage, so I
deleted my account there and have moved it here.)

This was Keith Floyd's first ever cookery book, published by a small
local publisher in Bristol before Keith even had his notorious 1980s
radio show on Radio West, where he often failed to appear, or arrived
"tired and emotional". I don't know how it was sold exactly, my father
had piles of the book on the counters at his shop, which may have
accounted for at least some of the sales of the book. Keith was a
"local hero" in Bristol at the time, having run several restaurants in
Clifton and Redland. At the time this book was published, Keith was
running a place in Chandos Road in Redland.

I had been to Keith's restaurant any number of times with my father,
and I wasn't very impressed with his cooking, which seemed to vary in
quality from "badly-cooked school dinner" to "completely inedible
horror", or his rather odd "Jekyll and Hyde" personality, so I took no
interest in the contents of this book at the time. But some time later
I found a copy of this book in Oxfam for 25p and bought it just to
have a look.

Most of the recipes seemed useless, for example his recipe for a jam
doughnut consisted of making a jam sandwich and then frying it, and he
had some sort of phobia of the white parts of peppers which he
insisted had to be removed. There was nothing in the book which seemed
to constitute a practical or useful recipe at all.

Interestingly the book contains a foreword by Leonard Rossiter, the
actor who played Reginald Perrin, who apparently would often come to
Keith Floyd's restaurant when filming at BBC Bristol. Given my bad
experiences at Floyd's restaurant, I wonder how it can be that people
like Rossiter rated Floyd's cooking so highly. Perhaps Floyd made more
effort to prepare food for some people than others. But I really don't
know, and on the evidence of the meals I had at Keith's restaurant, he
had very little cooking ability. This book did nothing to change my
mind.