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A review by tresgrumpy
Nothing Fancy: Unfussy Food for Having People Over by Alison Roman
2.0
Alison Roman's style of cooking does not mesh with mine at all. That said, I have made and liked the candied walnuts in this book a few times. It's the only keeper recipe for me in a book that otherwise I find completely unmemorable.
This is nothing to say about the quality of the recipes, although many smarter people than me have said a lot about the Alison Roman-ness of completely divorcing ingredients from their context, and acting like you have invented daal and whatever. idk, reviewing cookbooks is a (for me, not a critic) a totally subjective experience. These recipes exist for somebody I guess, and that person is not me.
(2 stars because I went to the trouble of writing out a single recipe when I ditched the book)
This is nothing to say about the quality of the recipes, although many smarter people than me have said a lot about the Alison Roman-ness of completely divorcing ingredients from their context, and acting like you have invented daal and whatever. idk, reviewing cookbooks is a (for me, not a critic) a totally subjective experience. These recipes exist for somebody I guess, and that person is not me.
(2 stars because I went to the trouble of writing out a single recipe when I ditched the book)