Reading this cookbook is a little like making friends with the author in her hometown in California and then getting postcards from her as she travels the world. Her world recipes come from Japan, India, Italy, France and Morocco. What I found fascinating about this book is that with each recipe she had a side stripe that gave interesting tidbits from history and culinary insights to the "rare" or "exotic" ingredients used in the recipe. This was a fun addition to the cookbook. The recipes sound delicious and the photographs will make your mouth water. At first I thought the recipes would be too hard to actually make and that I would just enjoy browsing through the photographs and learning about new ingredients that I'd never tried. But the recipes are not difficult to follow and in fact are much simpler to create than they look. The little bit of effort to find the unusual ingredients is worth it.
I received this book free from the publishers for my honest review and was not required to write a positive review.
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