Sarah Gardner

Sarah is a writer rather than a cookery writer and some of the recipes in this book include such horrors (sorry - I am a baking snob) as cake mix and whipped topping. Other recipes are fine or give good ideas of an item where a better recipe might be located elsewhere. The strength of the book are the inspirational suggestions of books to read under monthly themes, the food being listed as ideas to accompany. I really did think, at regular intervals - I must read that! So the book succeeds in its goal. For 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' there is an appropriately frugal Beef Barley Soup; for Homer's 'Odyssey' - Greek Salad and for 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' a catfish recipe.… (mer)