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A review by silver_valkyrie_reads
Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat: A Cookbook by Adeena Sussman, Chrissy Teigen
funny
informative
relaxing
3.5
3.5 star, I guess?
I was interested in this cookbook because I tried her Jok Moo (Thai Pork and Rice Porridge) recipe that had been shared on a blog, and (with my own modifications) now make it every week or so to keep in the fridge for a quick breakfast.
I thought, if that one recipe is so good, how many other amazing recipes are in this book???
And I'm sure that objectively there are a ton of amazing recipes, but nearly everything else in this book is either made from ingredients I don't usually have on hand (not anything fancy, just that I don't usually buy cuts of meat any more expensive than pork shoulder and ground beef) or is a recipe I already have my version of perfected (mac and cheese, for example).
I did make her Tuna Melt sandwich just to try something simple and see how it was, and the results were... confusing. It tasted great, no complaints there. But I'm a HUGE mayo fan, and the amount of mayo was the maximum I could possibly still enjoy before it just got weird. And the amount of tuna I was supposed to fit on the bread... maybe it's because I was using homemade bread that was a bit smaller, but I didn't even try to use all the filling and it was still falling out the sides as I cooked it. (I appreciate the attitude toward maximum filling, it's just more the results I expect from my own impromptu enthusiasm than from a tested recipe.)
Overall, I did really enjoy the lighthearted tone of of the book and funny explanations of recipes. Though I also found it disturbing to read her off hand comments about times she was essentially starving herself in preparation for a modeling gig.
So yeah.. TLDR, I appreciate the enthusiasm and humor, and the recipes seem good on flavor, but most of them are not useful for me.
I was interested in this cookbook because I tried her Jok Moo (Thai Pork and Rice Porridge) recipe that had been shared on a blog, and (with my own modifications) now make it every week or so to keep in the fridge for a quick breakfast.
I thought, if that one recipe is so good, how many other amazing recipes are in this book???
And I'm sure that objectively there are a ton of amazing recipes, but nearly everything else in this book is either made from ingredients I don't usually have on hand (not anything fancy, just that I don't usually buy cuts of meat any more expensive than pork shoulder and ground beef) or is a recipe I already have my version of perfected (mac and cheese, for example).
I did make her Tuna Melt sandwich just to try something simple and see how it was, and the results were... confusing. It tasted great, no complaints there. But I'm a HUGE mayo fan, and the amount of mayo was the maximum I could possibly still enjoy before it just got weird. And the amount of tuna I was supposed to fit on the bread... maybe it's because I was using homemade bread that was a bit smaller, but I didn't even try to use all the filling and it was still falling out the sides as I cooked it. (I appreciate the attitude toward maximum filling, it's just more the results I expect from my own impromptu enthusiasm than from a tested recipe.)
Overall, I did really enjoy the lighthearted tone of of the book and funny explanations of recipes. Though I also found it disturbing to read her off hand comments about times she was essentially starving herself in preparation for a modeling gig.
So yeah.. TLDR, I appreciate the enthusiasm and humor, and the recipes seem good on flavor, but most of them are not useful for me.
Content Warnings
It's not quite body shaming or eating disorder, but there comments about essentially starving herself before a photo shoot.