Title: Boring recipes
Product review: Having lived in Morocco, I had high hopes for this cookbook, but I was truly let down. I've made 10+ recipes from this book and none have been interesting. I don't know if she was trying to avoid including unusual ingredients or complicated techniques, but there just isn't much flavor in these pages. She does include nice vignettes and stories about the food, so you may enjoy reading this book, and likewise if you don't like your food too strongly flavored and you prefer simple cooking, you might like this, but it's just not even sort of authentic, good middle eastern food. For example, the last recipe I made called for boiling chicken in turmeric and water with a few crushed cardamom pods. Really?? That's what you call a chicken sofrito? My turmeric was from Morocco and even that couldn't save this bland recipe. I'll be looking elsewhere.
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