Title: Wonderful Writing...Disappointing Recipes
Product review: I was excited to learn that Dr. Angelou had written a cookbook and promptly purchased it. This is a very well written cookbook with stories of her life interspersed between recipes. The photographs are charming. However, the recipes themselves are not up to par. They are in fact, quite awful. For instance, she advises frying chicken in unseasoned flour. She waxes poetic about her grandmother's famed caramel cake, but then provides a recipe for a three layer cake made with only one stick of butter, which resulted in a cake with the texture of cornbread. Her red rice is a travesty against mankind. If this book is truly representative of what Dr. Angelou does in the kitchen, then the sad truth is that she simply cannot cook and has no business writing a cookbook.
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