I think this is a great cookbook for moms (I have a 1-year-old and it's perfect for me). I especially love the few ingredients thing, since grocery shopping with a toddler is like grocery shopping with a time bomb! My favorite thing about this cookbook is that when I make these recipes it feels like COOKING. I know that some moms live and die for their crockpots, but throwing a bunch of stuff in a machine and turning it on just doesn't feel like cooking to me. I love the colors of fresh produce and the sizzle of cooking meat, and this cookbook satisfies that for me but in a way that is well-suited for the amount of time that I can devote to shopping and cooking. Everything that I have made is tasty, beautiful, and just feels like "real" adult food, which is a nice change of pace for me as a new mom!
Some cons: First, this book is a translation from French and some of the ingredients are things that might not be as easily accessed in the USA as they are in France. Stuff like merguez sausage or duck, for example, might not be behind your average American grocery store's meat counter. Also, one way that the cookbook keeps things simple is by using pre-made things like pizza dough, puff pastry, etc.; one recipe calls for pre-made gazpacho. These aren't necessarily things that you're going to find in good quality in the average grocery store. I live in a big city with amazing grocery stores and even I couldn't find the gazpacho. Second, this book doesn't go into detail about how to handle every step. I think it's expecting that people have a certain level of knowledge about cooking. So while it is "simple" in terms of ingredients and steps, I don't think it would necessarily be "simple" for someone who is new to cooking.
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Easy to obtain and minimal ingredients; perfect first cookbook
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2021
We got multiples of this book for our younger cousins, who live throughout the US. We are teaching life skills (like efficiently cutting an onion, how much water and washing is needed to cook rice in a pot, quickly prepping and mincing garlic, cutting meat in consistent sizes so you don’t have larger pieces raw in the center when cooking etc.), through virtual cooking sessions together, where they choose the recipe. I like that the ingredients are not so exotic or expensive that you would have to go to a specialty grocery store. It is not overwhelming for someone new to cooking to buy the 5 ingredients and follow the very simple instructions. We made the cashew chicken stir fry last night, over Facetime (each person making their own rendition at the same time), and it turned out delicious for everyone! The book is simple and visually appealing.
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Simple and straightforward descriptions, book quality itself is lacking
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