The Best Recipes in the World by Mark Bittman
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Book Reviews of The Best Recipes in the World
Book Review: failed recipes
Summary: 3 Stars
Ok, I really liked the idea of one book for many ethnic recipes. How many recipes in a cookbook have to fail before you give up on it? I've made 2 recipes so far from this book and they were both not so great. First I made a sherry chicken dish with onions that I had to force myself to eat rather than throw it out. Then I made a pork posole. The posole called for a tablespoon of cumin or "to taste". You can't exactly go by taste as you are adding it to raw meat. A tablespoon seemed like an awful lot so I put maybe half that. The dish was so heavy on cumin it was terrible. I don't want to give up on the cookbook, but I am definitely Review: Far from what I thought.Summary: 3 Stars This may be wonderful foods but the recipes are too ethnic and ingredients not available or known. Nowhere on the cover does it explain that is so complicated.
Book Review: Warning: NOT a companion book to the Bittman PBS series of the same name
Summary: 1 Stars
I ordered this book because I thought it would be the companion cookbook to Bittman's PBS cooking show of the same name "The Best Recipes in the World With Mark Bittman of the New York Times." I was dissapointed to find that was not the case. Specifically, I was looking for the paella and the ravioli recipes I'd seen cooked on the show. The paella contained rabbit, chicken, tomato, rice, rosemary and beans. The rabbit and chicken version is considered to be the true original Valenciana paella by purists. The ravioli recipe was made by Paola Di Mauro containing a simple ricotta filling and a sauce made only from tomatoes and basil. Neither recipe is in the book. Instead "the original" paella in Bittman's book contains is a shrimp version, and there's second paella recipe with chicken and mushrooms. The two ravioli recipes are a spinach/ricotta and a vegetarian version. I'm stymied why that's the case, and why create a cooking show with the same title as the book only to have completely different recipes. I find this inexcusable since the book is advertised on the show. I feel cheated. I had to find the Di Mauro ravioli recipe and the paella recipe by googling. One star for false advertising.