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4.45 AVERAGE
4.45 AVERAGE
Interesting view. Lyrical writing. None of the recipes inspired me to seek the special ingredients they contain though.
I stupidly decided to mark every recipe of Ho's that I want to make, which resulted in me dog-earing essentially every page of this book. When I first saw the book's gorgeous, artistic photos, lush prose, and focus on wild (read: hard to source) ingredients, I immediately became suspicious that these dessert recipes wouldn't be approachable. But I couldn't have been more wrong! I cannot wait to get started on trying these, which are exactly my type of desserts: savory-leaning, unfussy, featuring all kinds of fruits and nuts and toasty grains.
Intriguing recipes— though a few truly puzzling ones— interspersed with moody-lovely photos and hard to describe exposition about the seasons…to my ear, she ranges from poetic to truly purple to even a little incomprehensible.
For example this thought about the end of summer: “The heart, bruised like fallen fruit; once sweet, but with each passing moment, a little more spoiled and rotten.” Huh?
But, yes, lots of deliciously compelling recipes. Walnut Rosewater Chocolate Chip cookies, Black Currant Opera cake, Bay Leaf Blondies are just a few of the ideas that capture the imagination.
For example this thought about the end of summer: “The heart, bruised like fallen fruit; once sweet, but with each passing moment, a little more spoiled and rotten.” Huh?
But, yes, lots of deliciously compelling recipes. Walnut Rosewater Chocolate Chip cookies, Black Currant Opera cake, Bay Leaf Blondies are just a few of the ideas that capture the imagination.
What a beautiful, stunningly written book. Recipes have a grace to them and to be frank, aren't overly pretentious or complicated. There is a bit of a dark, cool-toned fae quality to this cookbook that I really resonate with. Less emphasis on techniques and whatnot and moreso a broody epitaph to the wilderness and its bounty.
This book is simply stunning. The photography is as good as any coffee table book, and the recipes are like poetry. My new favorite cookbook.
Not heavy on instruction, aesthetically pleasing. First made the peppercorn and rhubarb tart. Contains recipes for items (eg, scones) I like to make and am familiar with, may purchase.
Kind of a pretentious cookbook but I want to buy a copy just for the hypothetical fancy dress tea parties I will be having every week when I'm 65
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This is definitely the prettiest cookbook I have ever seen. Some of the recipes seem doable for all levels of expertise, and some are a stretch but only slightly, but others call for tools or ingredients simply not likely to be in the vast majority of American kitchens or even communities. The instructions are low pressure, though, and the photos of the completed products certainly show food made to be eaten, not just photographed. That makes even the most complicated recipes or the ones with the hard-to-find ingredients or tools seem more accessible.