Customer Reviews

Eating in Paradise: Cooking in Bali and Java

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This book includes many key traditional dishes, but the recipes are inconsistently written and often unclear as to the proper method. The landscape photos are nice, but the text accompanying them is third-rate at best, and the information is better acquired from a traditional guide book. Many of the names of the dishes are incorrectly or poorly translated. The photos of the food itself are almost a joke. Many of the dishes are portrayed in ways you'd never actually see them, and indeed are supposed to be attractive but actually detract from the appetizing-ness. The "food stylist" employed by the photographer should never do that job again, with sloppy garnishes and poor knife work. Not recommended. "The Food of Bali..." by Heinz van Holzen is much better.

This is one of the most innovative cook books I've bought. The traditional Indonesia recipes in this book are a real treat, but the book is also filled with unique concepts from a innovative chef...

This is a great cookbook!