Review: PASS THE SWEET POTATOES PLEASE
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 17, 2013
Texas Jack's Famous Sweet Potato Recipes has a compelling, visually attractive, delicious-looking cover that suggests one thing, namely, in this book there will be delicious recipes! As someone who is accustomed to eating, and not cooking, I turned to my lovely wife, Gaby, to see what her opinion was about this book. I shall return to Gaby in a moment.To begin, this is not Author Dennis Waller's first recipe book. It is his third book in the Texas Jack's brand, which is a Best Seller on Amazon. You may already know about, "Texas Jack's Famous Caramels Secret Recipe Book" and, "Texas Jack's Famous Pralines Secret Recipe Book", which have been literally selling like hot pancakes. This book, with its relevance for holiday cooking, will undoubtedly also be a Best Seller, and I need no crystal ball to make that prediction. Here's why:There is no single Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner that is complete without sweet potatoes.Unthinkable and unimaginable to not sit at a holiday dinner table in the USA and not hear someone say,"Pass the sweet potatoes please."And as we all know, Americans eat sweet potatoes all year round, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter...Now, this book is all about the sweet potato. It's definitely a sweet potato book. The book will surprise you with the wide variety of possibilities for preparing dishes from sweet potatoes. (I just said "sweet potato" 4 times) This recipe book has recipes for sweet potato pies, casseroles, cupcakes, cornbreads, biscuits, and mashed and hashed sweet potatoes; in other words, you could serve sweet potatoes every day for a month and never serve the same dish in a 3 week period. That's what I call versatility.But what about cooking?I now turn to Gaby, my lovely wife: (quote)  "First of all, every recipe is easy to follow and each step is explained in detail. That includes the most important step, buying the sweet potatoes. It is important to choose the sweet potato carefully." (end of quote)Thank you Gaby!Finally, this is a book that I can recommend most enthusiastically, as you will surely refer to it not only at the holiday season, buy all year round. Get this book, you will be glad you did.Reviewed by Thomas Jerome BakerAuthor ofStory Tellers: In Pursuit of Happiness