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Review title: Bland recipes...lots of them.
Product review: I cooked about a dozen things from here and none of them were very good. The main reason was that they were all quite bland. This surprised me because I've done a good amount of Chinese, Thai, and Indian cooking and have three of Jaffrey's other cookbooks, all of which have a number of terrific and dynamic dishes. I suppose if I'd actually bought the book from a bookstore, rather than sight-unseen from Amazon, and really given it a good pre-purchse browsing, I might have held off purchasing it. I've cooked long enough and with enough variety to be able to read a recipe and have a good feel for how it will taste. While I've only cooked around a dozen of the recipes in the book, I've skimmed it cover to cover, and honestly, the things I cooked looked to be among the best recipes in the thing. Most of these recipes are just..meh...
