Question of the Day: Overrated Food Books
What's the most overrated food book you've read recently?
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10 Comments:
i'm not sure where they post the ratings....
Kbear919 at 11:08PM on 07/15/07
I'm talking about good reads touted by the food press as great reads. As a start, here's my list.
Fat and Happy Food Slut at 9:43AM on 07/16/07
Great books are
United States of Arugula
Salt
Cod
OK book
the Perfectionist
Not so good (very unfortunately)
...and a bottle of Rum
Seriouspoorcook at 3:15PM on 07/16/07
Do you mean overrated in the sense there's a whole lot of hype over a book that really isn't all that great?
If so i'd like to point out that anything by Jamie Oliver is overrated. Sorry to jamie fans, but I dont like the way he abuses olive oil
choc_puddin at 6:42PM on 07/16/07
The Tartine cookbook was a huge disappointment. Also, I wonder if any recipes by Nigella Lawson have ever been kitchen tested.
tidmus at 7:15PM on 07/16/07
silly thread...
Kbear919 at 11:53PM on 07/16/07
I don't know that there's a good answer to this. It really depends on your own likes and dislikes, just like TV shows, movies, etc. I think lobster itself is highly over-rated (to me, lobster is just an expensive way to eat butter), but as millions of other folks love it, so be it.
LunaPierCook at 5:55AM on 07/17/07
to me the movie turner and hooch is not over-rated :)
Kbear919 at 3:11PM on 07/17/07
The Silver Spoon. It's pretty awful. Terrible conversions. If you like italian food, there are many other, better options out there.
grubgirl at 7:58PM on 07/17/07
Ruth Reichl's sequel, Comfort Me With Apples, was so embarrassing. Clearly published too early so she had to pander to all her colleagues. It was all, "I was there at the start of California cuisine" but none of her great opinions and food descriptions. Instead, unsatisfying and very cagey descriptions of the people. Her writing about her love affair with her second husband was dopey, very high school. Not to mention that almost every piece of food she put into her mouth "exploded"...After reading Tender at the Bone and her great editorials in Gourmet I was shocked. On second thought, maybe I shouldn't have been -- I canceled my subscription to that rag a few years ago when I'd decided if I read another article where the chef was described as "boyishly handsome" I would no longer subscribe...and of course it happened twice in the next issue!
jumpygrouch at 9:23AM on 07/25/07