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Gluten-Free Girl And The Chef (2010)

by Shauna James Ahern(Favorite Author)

3.69 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0470419717 (ISBN13: 9780470419717)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

review 1: Gluten-Free Girl and the Chef is an interesting format for a cookbook.The life stories interspersed throughout the book are endearing and tell how they came to use/love the various recipes. I find the how-to pages on cooking, preparing, salting, and buying simple foods the most useful. In reality though, I would only use a handful of recipes from this book. Like three-cheese lasagna, warm rice salad, or pumpkin soup. Many recipes call for ingredients that I am not willing to try/buy (for various reasons like having a family with multiple food allergies or not wanting to spend time/money on ingredients that will not be used frequently) when I am already pressed for time to cook meals. Frankly, some recipes repulsed me though I am not a vegetarian. How about braised balsami... morec rabbit or fettuccine with braised oxtail? This book would be helpful to those that are adventurous with food, looking for recipes that will impress, and are only avoiding gluten. To be fair, they offer variation tips to avoid certain allergen or how to make a recipe vegetarian when the recipe allows.
review 2: I really enjoyed the first fourth of the book as GF Girl told about her courtship with the Chef. But then ... well, as I continued, I finally thought, "Shouldn't this book be entitled GF Girl writes about the Chef?" It started to feel the same. Every little essay felt like a rehash with some new little bit added in. There were a couple of essays toward the end that felt fresher and more lively. But the book was a disappointment. I loved getting to know GF Girl in her first book, but she's not in this book much at all. Alas. The recipes mostly didn't entice me, possibly because many of them are meat dishes and I'm a vegetarian, but they also felt a little showy, which makes sense since The Chef is, after all, a professional. Anyway ... it wasn't what I was hoping for. less

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