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Title: Heavy on Calories, Light on Content
Review: I obtained this book after being smitten with the Nigella Bites TV show, and am disappointing with book compared to on the on-air version. True, the book contains the recipes I've seen on TV. In fact, it reads like a printed version of the TV script, and nothing else. Rather than being filled with more in-depth information and additional recipes that didn't make in into the short time of an episode (as I would have hoped), the limited content of the book is padded in metallic-inked graphics, more like a "coffee table book" than a cookbook. Most of the recipes are special-occasion, junk-food-type items; this is not a good basic cookbook. Nigella's earlier cookbooks do appear from a quick look to be more substantial; perhaps one of them would have been a better choice.
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