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Summary: Inspiring but impractical for everyday use
Review: I really enjoy browsing through this cookbook, however, I've found it impractical for everyday use. Many of the recipes call for unusual and hard to find (translation-expensive) items. For example, about 85-90% of the hors d'ouvre recipes call for caviar, at least as a garnish. My warning to you is expect to spend extra money on groceries to make most of these recipes. Also, as many of the gourmet recipes take many steps to prepare, expect to spend awhile in the kitchen.
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Summary: Hi!
Review: I shaved my legs and made a rug to send my mother on earth day. Thank you
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Summary: Awesome!!!!!!!
Review: I use this book almost exclusively....despite Martha's latest shinanagins. I call it the "Bible". I rely on this cookbook! Please do not buy anything else. She makes every recipe simple and small, easy to follow. This cookbook makes the amateur into a pro!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Awesome!!!!!!!
Review: I use this book almost exclusively....despite Martha's latest shinanagins. I call it the "Bible". I rely on this cookbook! Please do not buy anything else. She makes every recipe simple and small, easy to follow. This cookbook makes the amateur into a pro!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Awesome!!!!!!!
Review: I use this book almost exclusively....despite Martha's latest shinanagins. I call it the "Bible". I rely on this cookbook! Please do not buy anything else. She makes every recipe simple and small, easy to follow. This cookbook makes the amateur into a pro!!!!!!!!
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Summary: This is the cookbook I count on
Review: If you like Martha but you think her recipes are to complicated or sophisticated for everyday use, this is the book for you. There are no pictures and there is hardly any commentary but what there is, is wonderful. My family's favorite recipe, the yellow pound cake with blood orange glaze is simple yet you get "a lot of bang for your buck". I usually skip the blood orange glaze and I add canned mandarin oranges or frozen raspberries to the top of batter after I pour it on the cake mold. This is the cookbook I count on above all others.
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Summary: The Martha Stewart Cookbook: Collected Recipes for Every Day
Review: If you love to cook, you should own at least one of Martha's big cookbooks. This volume has something for absolutely everyone.
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Summary: A Great All-Purpose Cookbook
Review: If you love to cook, you should own at least one of Martha's big cookbooks. This volume has something for absolutely everyone.
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Summary: A TREASURE TO CHERISHED EVERYDAY AND PASS ON TO GRANDCHILDRE
Review: MARTHA STEWART HAS THE GIFT OF CREATING THE FINEST CHOICES OF RECIPES TO ENSURE THE SPECIAL MOMENTS OF COOKING. MY PRAISE TO HER AND THE DEDICATION OFO PRESERVING THE ART OF COOKING WITH LOVE. PAULA HUDSON .
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Summary: tsk tsk tsk
Review: Someone didn't proofreading this volume. It is a shame too. It would be a great cookbook and a source of good inspiration otherwise. As it is, it is a dinner party disaster waiting to happen. Typos abound. Temperatures are forgotten. Items in the directions are not in ingredients list -- and ingredients listed are not in the directions. (Example: Portobella Mushroom Risotto doesn't mention when to add the mushrooms.) The errors are frequently serious enough to render your very expensive ingredients inedible. And caveat emptor: This is a compendium of Martha's previously published cookbooks. I do not know if the original cookbooks had the same errors. The book is also overwhelming -- even for a cooking addict. It became a game for me to see how exclusionist the ingredients list could be. I got out my Italian and French cooking dictionaries to figure out the obscure terms. To share the fun I called neighbors and friends from Venice, Paris and Lyon.... What DOES plissee mean???? Joy of Cooking and Fannie Farmer are better places for novices to start. Experienced cooks will appreciate and their money will be better spent on another volume from James Beard or Cordon Bleu. It is a great cookbook to get ideas from... but I would hate to be forced to actually cook from it. Martha, my dear: a major revision with a good copy-editor and recipe-checker would make it worth buying.
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