Flo Braker is a bit of a cooking legend in the SF Bay area. I've made many of her recipes over the years and have never been disappointed. I appreciate that she always walks that thin line between fully explaining the process within a recipe and treating her readers as if we have some common sense.
This would be a five star cookbook except for one major flaw: the typeface used.
Frances Baca, the graphics designer for this book, shouldn't be allowed to go within a half mile of a cookbook project ever again. She made this book unusable. (One look at her website, however, explains everything. Apparently the woman has something against words being legible. You can't read a damn word there without eyestrain either.. Yep, the typeface pissed me off enough to go look at what else she's been involved in so that I can be sure to never, ever buy it.)
Yes, there are lots of people who buy cookbooks which will never see a kitchen counter. As long as the book is "pretty" and has lots of pictures so they can pretend they might someday make something from it, they're happy. However, some of us still have this insane idea of actually USING cookbooks, literally taking them into a kitchen and following the directions in the recipes. Yeah, I know, it sounds crazy, but some of us still enjoy doing quaint, archaic things like that. Well, you won't do it easily with this book. Form has displaced function. The ingredient lists are in all caps -- which even a rookie graphics person knows is harder to read than mixed case. The font chosen is one of those skinny, crowded ones that almost appears gray rather than black. Trying to read a recipe from a counter top while working with ingredients is a miserable experience.
The recipes themselves are terrific. I've made several -- after hand copying them so I could actually READ them -- all all turned out wonderful.
Flo, we beg you, the next time you write a cookbook, do us a favor and find a graphics person who understands cookbooks are meant to be used.
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