Review: Breakfast: The Most Important Book About the Best Meal of the Day
By EricMesa
- One minute read - 203 words
Breakfast: The Most Important Book About the Best Meal of the Day by The Editors of Extra Crispy
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Received this as a gift.
I guess I’m spoiled by Milk Street, Meathead Goldwyn, and America’s Test Kitchen, but reading a collection of blog posts put into a book with a bunch of vague recipes (although some seem to be better written) was just kind of meh.
Many of the essays were enjoyable, but some of them were just trying a little to hard to be funny (or maybe they were being serious and just see the world THAT differently from me). This was probably conceived of as a bathroom reader or coffee table book or something you’d just look at here and there. Reading it from front to back (which I do with all my cookbooks - which is why I love when there’s a story before each recipe) it just becomes a bit trying. Again, since it comes from a blog (or blog posts on a site), it probably worked better as something the reader would spend 5-15 minutes on a day.
I did earmark about 3 recipes from the book to try.