Title: Mistakes, missing recipes, and MSG
Product review: This cookbook has some great things going for it:It attempts to be as clear and concise as possible. There are many photos illustrating techniques, and while the photos are very 80s they are at least well-lit and clear. The author is a relatively famous cook in Korea and she knows what she's talking about. The book has a lot of recipes and is simple to read.However, some things have literally been lost in translation in that for some recipes the measurements are totally wrong. Some of these dishes would be nearly inedible if you followed the directions. And for such a comprehensive book, some classic Korean dishes are inexplicably missing. Finally, almost every recipe calls for MSG, which was indeed in heavy use in Korean households at the time, but has since fallen out of favor.Given the price of the book and these large mistakes, there is no possible way I could recommend it to anyone.
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