Dinners with Famous Women: From Cleopatra to Indira Gandhi Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is quite intriguing, and the author's credentials certainly seem to be in order. However there are a few faults to the book which trouble me. There are a LOT of typographical errors -- so many that sometimes the instructions aren't clear. Sometimes words are weirdly out of order, or there are footnotes about ingredients which aren't included in the recipes above. Also, in terms of authenticity, there are errors. I am quite sure that a 14th century French sauce wouldn't have had tomatoes in it. The biographies of the women seem accurate, but they aren't written with any difference of personality. Also, although the recipes do look very interesting and yummy, many of them really require the reader to already understand a lot about cooking. The little inbtween steps which make recipes accessible for the novice are missing.

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Dinners With Famous Women is a culinary history cookbook with a different twist-women from different centuries recount the meals of their time. Enjoy dinner with Cleopatra, Annie Oakley, and Mata Hari as each famous woman describes the food of her generation.Each chapter provides a menu and recipes for a succulent dinner inspired by these women of antiquity. Learn about a meal Anne Boleyn relished at Hampton Court with Henry VIII, eat a meal with Emily Dickinson, and celebrate Passover with Emma Goldman. In Dinners With Famous Women, culinary history becomes an exciting part of the cooking experience.

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