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Title: Hard to Find Ingredients
Review: Given all the five star reviews on here, I must be missing something but I just wasn't impressed with this cookbook. It's certainly well organized, the recipes seem authentic and the extensive cultural/historical notes may be of interest to some readers. I was very turned off, however, by the lack of pictures and the extensive use of uncommon or hard-to-find ingredients.I know my area isn't known for it's multiculturalism and maybe these things are easier to find in more metropolitan areas, but it was a real turn-off to not be able to make a bunch of these recipes without special-order items. The lack of pictures seemed particularly odd, given that most of these aren't recipes the average cook is likely to be familiar with; one would think that pictures would be especially helpful and appropriate in such a case.
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