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Title: The New Ebony Cookbook by Charlotte Lyons, James Mitchell ISBN: 0874850908 Publisher: Johnson Pub Co Pub. Date: 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38
Rating: 2
Summary: No thanks
Comment: No thank you, I won't be having seconds. I already own the original Ebony cookbook so I picked this one up with high expectations. What a let down! The New Ebony cookbook is full of bland recipes that I will never try. Considering that the orignal book is a treasury of Americas finest Black cooking there is no excuse for this new version to be so poor. Stick with the original.
Rating: 3
Summary: Okay, but a real disappointment
Comment: This book was a huge disappointment. I have Frieda Knight's wonderful _Dinner with a Dish_ (from Ebony), so really looked forward to this one. But it was so coldly written, with no introductions, anecdotes, or descriptions of the recipes. In the aforementioned _Dinner with a Dish_, it tells how a minted pea recipe became very popular after someone mistakenly used mint tea instead of water to cook some peas. I like that sort of intro/description, and missed it here. For example, all recipe collections include some that are quick-and-easy, some that use up ingredients we keep on hand, some that are very cheap, some that are out-of-this-world delicious show-stoppers, some that have sentimental value, etc. -- and it is important to know which are which before wasting your time and effort. (For example, I'm a northerner, and have never seen or tasted collard greens. A recipe describing them as delectable would tempt me to locate and try them -- but, without such a description, I have no way of knowing if the recipe is listed because collard greens are readily available, or because they taste good.) is book doesn't provide any clues about time or effort involved or results expected. I was horribly disappointed, and will be returning it.
However, I gave it three stars rather than one, since the above criteria may not matter to all people.
Rating: 5
Summary: charlotte knows her stuffings!!!
Comment: this cookbook is perfect for cooks like me who really don't know how to cook!!! the language is plain, the ingrediants are simple, and the results.....for me... is usually tasty!!!
the timely tips in the back of the book are especially helpful. they teach me how to make substitutions, when i don't have certain ingrediants the recipes require.
i also found this to be the perfect cookbook for my 14 year old son to learn the basics of functioning in the kitchen.
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Title: The Ebony Cookbook: A Date With a Dish by Freda De Knight, Freda DeKnight ISBN: 0874850037 Publisher: Johnson Pub Co Pub. Date: 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: LaBelle Cuisine: Recipes to Sing About by Patti LaBelle, Laura B. Randolph, Laura Randolph Lancaster ISBN: 0767903145 Publisher: Broadway Books Pub. Date: 06 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Essence Brings You Great Cooking by Jonell Nash ISBN: 0060958138 Publisher: Amistad Press Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Sylvia's Family Soul Food Cookbook : From Hemingway, South Carolina, To Harlem by Sylvia Woods ISBN: 0688162193 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: BLACK FAMILY REUNION COOKBOOK : RECIPES AND FOOD MEMORIES by National council of negro women ISBN: 0671796291 Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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