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Tagine Greats: 100 Delicious Tagine Recipes, The Top 100 Moroccan Tajine recipes - Second Edition

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I'm very hesitant to review this cookbook because it is so bad! I have never seen such a poorly organized, poorly edited book in my life (and I've lived quite a few decades). I own many, many cookbooks--too many to count--but this is the worst one I've ever laid eyes on. There is not a single picture in it. The ingredient lists are incomplete, i.e. it lists measurements but not the name of the ingredient! Hello! Oven temperatures are only given in Celsius, not Fahrenheit. Many of the recipes give weights only, not our usual cup and tablespoon and teaspoon measurements. I think you get the idea. I returned the book to Amazon, and to their credit they gave me a full refund. I wish I could have given it zero stars.

I agree with the other reader who said the formatting on the kindle was horrendous. It is. The sentences run into each other and they are at uneven levels across the page. However, this is not the book's fault; it is whomever transcribes it fault. The recipes are delicious, and I didn't really need pictures-a stew is a stew (pretty much a tagine is a slow cooked stew). The one inconsistency I noticed was that sometimes the recipes were in grams and some recipes were in cups and tbsp. A previous reviewer stated the oven temp was in Celsius but I didn't notice. I know at least one recipe uses Fahrenheit. Overall- good recipes, poor formatting.

The cookbook is really quite fabulous but the Kindle formatting is less than acceptable. Lists of ingredients "interrupt" one another; you can see ingredients should appear across from each other but mesh together and some are cut out. The recipes, the introduction and the instructions are all wonderful and will continue to work around the oddly written recipes.