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What other words can I come up with to let you know how much I hated this book? When cookbooks disappoint, I am often amused, or perhaps annoyed. But this one made me truly angry. It is not going to help you make salads. When I began my account with Amazon, I lived in Nebraska. I now live in a major east coast city. I have cooked professionally and know how to source out ingredients. I would have a very time finding every ingredient for most of these recipes.
Here is a selection, starting at the beginning of the book: Dried peeled Louisiana shrimp, pasilla chiles, Fuerte avocado, ricotta salata, micro cilantro, coriander berries. That's the first recipe. Thai bird chile, white miso paste, fresh maitake mushrooms, fresh chives. Young black mint leaves, michne, styrian black pumpkin seed oil, green cardamom pods, fresh horseradish root, "extra fancy balsamic vinegar", concord grape juice, labneh, sumac, rice flour, dashi, freeze-dried shrimp (not the Louisiana kind, this time, Julia?), bonito flakes, red kuri, lacinato kale, sunflower shoots, pea tendrils, watermelon radishes. . .and that's just up to page 36 out of 272. I bet many of you don't even know what some of those are, let alone be able to find them in any local grocer's.
Suggested substitutions are few and far between. What, regular kale won't do? The recipe isn't going to work with non-concord grape juice? And then, and THEN-- many of the sections of interviews and bios on artists are on coloured paper. Some with white printing. Or pink on pale pink. Okay, I didn't buy the book to read about the artists, I bought it for the recipes. Which are on the same paper as the artist's info. Meaning, unreadable.
So why did I buy this book? Because I read great reviews, in several lists of "cookbooks for quarantine cooking". That's about as off as you can get. Groceries are harder to come by in general, let alone ultra specialty items. The unemployment rate is higher than it's been in decades, and you are listing the most expensive version of each ingredient? What I should have read was the back-cover blurb and reviews. This is for anyone who wants to entertain like an artist? Most of the artists I know exist on peanut butter and are more than thrilled to receive a dinner invitation. They are not hunting out "black mint". But then read the four reviews which follow-- none of them talk about who wonderful the recipes are. Because they are not.
Rant over, but boy is this just awful. If you know or are a fan of the artists in the book, the this would make a nice keepsake for you. But for the other 7,798, 968,793 people on the planet, forget it.
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