A review by sue_reilly
Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh

4.0

Ottolenghi's cookbooks are always so inspiring and full of delicious-looking photos, but I rarely cook from them. The recipes are long and involved and call for ingredients that can be expensive and hard to find, and it hurts my feelings when I spend a lot of money on special ingredients for a recipe that doesn't work. For example, I made the Almond, Pistachio, and Sour Cherry Wafers and was disappointed with how crumbly they were. The recipe note said that at the restaurant they use a meat slicer to cut them. Were these recipes tested by home cooks? Because slicing them at home was not fun. They were tasty but not pretty. I'd definitely buy this book as a gift for a dedicated baker, and I'd love to try some of the recipes with olive oil or cardamom, two of my favorite dessert ingredients. Overall the recipes are worth a try, but complicated. This cookbook is beautiful and full of recipes that, like his other cookbooks, I wish someone else would cook for me!