Review: Well-written cookbook with one serious issue.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2014
My issue is that I'm not sure if "Scarlett Aphra" is a real chef, because her author bio appears suspiciously like a stock photo. I want to make something clear: using a pen-name to fabricate expert status is unethical and in some circumstances even illegal. Because I'm skeptical of this matter, I'm also skeptical of the recipes--how do we know they're not just plagiarized off some other cookbook? I liked how this book goes into the history of some of the food and kind of sucks you in at the beginning--but I have a hard time trusting the source of the information.Also another reviewer pointed out some other weirdnesses, with pics that don't match and some recipes that don't really make much sense.