Review: A huge disappointment
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 2, 2013
I had high hopes for this cookbook.  It looked like it was going to be one of those "good ones."  It had the mechanical things, like a functional table of contents.  Unfortunately, despite table of contents, photographs, and nutritional information as a bonus, it failed on the recipes.  I will never try any of them.Why?Metric is one thing--I'm used to converting those to American measurements. There are plenty of websites with conversion widgets or charts too.  The problem is when you present me with a combination of metric and cups--I am NOT going to the work of figuring out what 1.6 cups translates to...or 1.2 or any other 1/10th of a cup.  Other things are given in the standard 1/4, 1/3, 1/2, 3/4, etc.  That's worse than not translating it at all, because now I have no idea what the equivalent is going to be.  I have no idea what size a sachet is, or if there is any variation between products and their sachets.  The number of servings for a recipe are not included, which renders the nutritional charts as useless as the bizarre measurements and their fluctuations.Problems like the ones that are presented with these recipes make historical cookbooks look a lot less intimidating.  It's easier to guess what size a tea cup is than what a sachet is.  Even lumps "the size of a walnut" or "a hen's egg" are much more achievable than the mysterious sachet.Unless you just want to look at the pictures, pass this one over.  (Although as a picture book, I'm not sure you'd be ecstatic either.)