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Title: Missing Ingredients
Review: Bought this book with the expectation that the author would give the reader some guidance on how to create dishes without always relying on a recipe. What you get instead is 7 pages of autobiography in the first chapter. The next chapter, "About Flavors", is only eight pages, which is filled with vague, hand waving observations on flavor. After a sermon entitled "Pep Talk to the Reader", the rest of the book turns into yet another cookbook based on specific dishes or treatments. The author made no attempt to extend his flavors framework about flavor marriages, flavor oppositions or flavor juxtapositions to the rest of the book. Spots checks on individual recipes didn't bother to show how they might exemplify the ideas set for in "About Flavors".
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