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German Cooking: The Complete Guide to Preparing Classic and Modern German Cuisine, Adapted for the American Kitchen

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I absolutely loved this book, as does my mother who is originally from Silesia, Germany (now Poland). The recipes use authentic ingredients, are easy to follow, and are indicative of the foods from all regions of Germany, not just East, West, South, North like so many other cookbooks. My father was stationed throughout Germany, so we are familiar with the different flavors of Germany and appreciated the author's broad reach so that we could sample our many favorites, and we found new ones, to. My mother is very critical (no surprise!) about German cookbooks and asked me to order this one for her birthday since she's enjoyed the recipes we've prepared.

I was excited to get this book home. After living in America for the last 20 years the time was right to buy a new German cookbook - to brush up on old favorites. But starting on page 16 translation and spelling errors reared their ugly heads. I stopped counting the translation errors somewhere around 30. It conveyed the obvious: sloppiness. If these simple tasks cannot be completed satisfactorily, then how could the recipes be worth trying out. Most likely attention to detail was not to be found there either.
This book went into the recycle bin the day it was purchased. It should not be re- sold at a garage sale as it would be dishonest to disappoint someone else unsuspecting.

I highly recommend this book because of the excellent recipe choices. This book is very well done and the ingredients are easily found. I am just as impressed with this book as I was with "The New German Cookbook" by Jean Anderson. You will not regret purchasing this book.

I purchased this book so that I could learn about my hertiage in cooking. I am culinary student and wanted to know more about German cooking. This book is wonderful. Thanks

I'm very pleased with this book. It has all the recipies I'm looking for, always i have trouble converting measurments from german to english and with this book i do not have to worry about that, it is also written with easy to understand instructions. I'm so pleased that now I'm ordering the polish cookbook, by this author, because I,m from Silisia, eastern part of Germany, now Poland, and we do a lot of polish cooking.

We lived in Germany and loved to travel and try foods from all over Europe. My husband loves to cook so I bought this cookbook for him. We have all loved every recipe he has made from this book. Every one has turned out and has tasted as authentic as possible when you can't get every ingredient from Germany (it's hard to find quark in the States).

If the spelling errors and switched illustrations are any indication, the recipes are likely not worth it. I was looking at the recipe for Wiener Schnitzel trying to figure out where the rolling depicted in the illustration figured in the recipe. Might be an ok book if you know German cooking and just need measurements etc. Another hilarious example: a recipe titled "Kuchen". Which one do you mean? ;-)

The recipes are not bad, but using German "translations" of English food names, obviously with no assistance from Germans, has simply hilarious results. Someone didn't know that the word PATE, as in LIVER PATE, is not the same as PATE, meaning skull. And that is just one example of a lack of attention to detail.......I'll keep the book in my collection, but cataloged in the Humor section.