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Title: Recycled Martha.
Review: Garten is probably the most egregious of all the "hobby job" cooks (one could NEVER call them chefs) flogged by the Food Network (followed closely by the laughably inept Sara Moulton and Rachael Ray). Here as in her other books, she recycles recipes done earlier and better by Martha Stewart (her obvious role model), Bert Greene, Lee Bailey, etc. Better to buy books by professionally trained, working chefs like Tyler Florence, Bobby Flay, Mario Batali, etc. or at the very least, by truly gifted home cooks like Nigella Lawson or Nigel Slater. You might actually learn something original from them.
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