Customer Reviews

Back to the Family: Food Tastes Better Shared with the Ones You Love

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I love the book. It has great ideas. I could do without the thousand pages of family style photos in the kitchen, a few would be nice, but let's not go overboard.

I love the simple recipes for stock, dough, pizza, salsa, etc.and being able to create healthier versions of those by controlling the salt and fat content.

I also love some the flavors such as the Tequila Lime shrimp. The description says how "wonderful it is hot off the grill", but the recipe says to cook it in a pan. An additional side note says you can grill it or bake it as well, but only gives direction for baking. Sure, I can figure it out, but not having to guess would be easier. Shrimp cooks quickly and it is easy to overcook and I've never been able to master the right temp & time.

But, my major pet peeve is when beautiful photographs of recipes and the actual recipe ingredients are different. An example of this is the goat cheese ball that in the photo appears to be dipped in chopped up green herbs,but the recipe doesn't call for any green herbs. Sure, I can be creative and figure it out. I noticed omitted herbs in some other recipes as well.

I saw several TV segments of Art Smith promoting his new restaurant in Chicago and some of the recipes looked great. There are good and not too difficult recipes in the book. But it is interspersed with chapters about warm and fuzzy family things. I love my family but not Art Smith's and want a cookbook. The index and table of contents are incomplete and hard to use and make it difficult to locate a recipe you need. An expensive cook book with some good recipes but I don't think I would have bought it if I had seen it in the book store.

The man knows how to cook! The Fried Chicken is the BEST! It takes time, but well worth it, don't let it stop you from trying it. Mr. Smith is welcome in any Southern kitchen.

I would have liked a few more reciipes and a little less commentary, but other than that the book is good so far.

Scrumptious recipes. the Family reference was very personal (to me), since my sister, Ann Bloomstrand is mentioned in this book (in the preface "A tribute to Ann E. Bloomstrad")Back to the Family: Food Tastes Better Shared with the Ones You Love

Great cookbook. I gave one to my son and my daughter as gifts. They just love it.