Customer Reviews

Cooking with Jane Austen (Feasting with Fiction)

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I love history, I love Jane Austen, and I love to cook. This is one of my favorite books to read before I bed...yes I like to read cookbooks as a past time. There's is so much information behind the discovery of each recipe. The author presents the historical context, the availability of ingredients and even relates it to Austen's novels....This book is a real jewel.

I have ordered this book twice and returned it twice. From what little I read, it is a fascinating book and well written. I look forward to reading it completely one day. The problem lies in the way the books are bound. They were hardback and very tightly bound. You had to firmly press open the book in order to read the text, which on many pages ran toward the center of the book. It was hard to hold it open and you had to adjust it to read the complete page since it was too close to the crease. A few pages into the introduction, which I was enjoying, I had to put the book down to let my hands rest. And before you ask, I'm not old or arthritic! This is the first time I've had such a situation with a book and this is a rare review for me. I just wanted readers to be aware, since this is not an inexpensive book. I'd give the content 4 or 5 stars (based on what little I read) and the book itself 1 star. I hope one day it will be reprinted or be available on Kindle.

Really excited to get the book. Loved every page. If you like cooking, culinary history and especially Jane Austen this is the book for you.