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One Big Table: A Portrait Of American Cooking: 600 Recipes From The Nation's Best Home Cooks, Farmers, Pit-masters And Chefs (2010)

by Molly O'Neill(Favorite Author)

3.85 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0743232704 (ISBN13: 9780743232708)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Simon & Schuster

review 1: This just didn't really turn out to be the book for me. I was overwhelmed by the number of recipes, and they were all a little old-fashioned, and I didn't know what to trust. O'Neill has a more manageably-sized book of New York recipes, which Lissa gave me, and since it's not a library book I can keep it on my shelf as a reference and eventually get into trying those. But I think on the whole I prefer cookbooks where the recipes are primarily created by one author/set of authors, rather than edited from dozens of sources, because then I can get a feel for whether I like this person's cooking style/taste and either dump it or learn to trust it.
review 2: This was a fun book to read, but the farther I got through it, the more I wondered if the recipes had been t... moreested. They come from hundreds of people around the country. Did the author test them all herself or just take them at face value? Also, there doesn't seem to be much concern about nutrition. A lot of the recipes look tasty, but are loaded up with cream, butter, and of course, bacon wherever possible. Still, there were plenty of recipes I wanted to have on hand, so it might be a book worth owning. Unfortunately, this was a library copy, and the second day I had it, I spilled a glass of red wine all over it! It remains to be seen what punishment the librarians will dole out. less

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