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Let Me Eat Cake: A Celebration Of Flour, Sugar, Butter, Eggs, Vanilla, Baking Powder, And A Pinch Of Salt (2009)

by Leslie F. Miller(Favorite Author)

2.81 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1416588736 (ISBN13: 9781416588733)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: I really wanted to love (even just like) this book but the author really makes it difficult. Cake should be a subject that's easy to love and easy to read about. However, Leslie Miller continually flip flops from history to interviews with bakers to personal rants and there's often no basis for why she discussing any particular topic at any particular spot in the book. I found a lot of it actually was boring...boring? Did I say that a book about cake was boring? Hard to believe, especially because it is very apparent that the author is completely obsessed with cake. This book was a lot like the cake that looks amazing but tastes like sawdust when you bite into it.
review 2: I was expecting more of this book, a more Julie Powell feel. I love books like tha... moret, books that contain fun facts, good, practical knowledge, and little personal tidbits. Those kind of books are sweet and charming. That's what this book was supposed to be.I'm a self proclaimed connoisseur of desserts. I look to the dessert menu when i go out to eat to determine what entree i can order. I watch Martha Stewart bake avidly. i hoard recipes for lemon bars, chocolate matcha bundt cake, pumpkin whoopie pies. I am disappointed when my mom makes the Food section of the L.A. Times disappear, and more disappointed if they don't have a recipe for something sweet.Now having said that, I am not a big fan of cake. I prefer pies and custards, soft cookies. Once in a while, I crave a cupcake. That's it. This book did not at all foster any more affection for cake in me. In fact, it did quite the opposite. While there were some interesting facts about the beginning of cake, most of it was about Leslie Miller's "addiction" to cake. Chapters and chapters are interrupted by her moaning about the size of her ass and how she cannot resist cake. It's really annoying. Instead of being charming, she just comes off as creepy.The book lacks a purpose. Leslie Miller interviews huge celebrities in the world of cake like Duff Goldman, the originator of Charm City Cakes, the innovator with his own show Ace of Cakes. And yet, it's not really clear what's going on in the interview, why she's interviewing him at all. It all seems to come back to the fact that she just wanted to eat some cake and watch some cake being decorated. I was hugely disappointed. It might be because I dislike reading about people with no willpower or it might have been the sense of "this is pointless" I got, but basically, I did not like this book very much at all. less

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