There is often a ýwhy?ý about so many cookbooks that are released especially on the back of TV franchises: winners, runners-up, even those who barely have their face on the show. Most of these are a waste of perfectly good paper, and healthy forests.
This book comes from a different background, from a graphic desogner turned blogger; and a successful and popular blogger who documented her experiences along the road to becoming a food photographer. The collection of recipes was developed through cooking dishes over and over to get the ýhero shotý. In her own words this often took many, many tries. So we take it that the recipes have been well-practiced and fine-tuned.
Itýs nice, comfort food that is achievable by a semi-competent home cook: from breakfast, through lunch to canapýs, dinner, finishing with sweets. All matched with very arty, rustic photos with loads of vintage props. Thereýs lots of stuff you probably have recipes for if you have a dozen or so cookbooks, but youýll find something here to inspire you to cook it again.
Itýs probably me but I found the type-writer format and smallish Times Roman font just a bit annoying, and the book is overall rather dark (and moody?)- both photos and written pages, each with different background. But thereýs passion in the recipes and love in the photography.
