Title: Flash in the pan, no substance
Product review: I Just don't get it. I got the book hoping to discover some wonderful and innovative new recipes. What I found instead was an advertisement for a restaurant. I just don't see what the big deal is. Adding fruit to pancakes and substituting vegetables for the canadian bacon in Eggs Benedict is hardly a brainstorm worth spending twenty dollars for. Other recipes call for outragously obscure ingredients. The outcome is seldom worth the pursiut of exotic items. I made the black bean clam thing...disgusting. My dog wouldn't even eat it. I recommend instead buying something like the new Joy of Cooking. It contains plenty of exotic and innovative recipes along with all of the basics. I guess I thought this would be a cookbook worthy of the shelf space it takes up. It turned out to be a slick, glossy, colorful brochure containing very little of value unless you are easily impressed with anything "Vineyard".
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