Customer Reviews

German Cooking

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I absolutely loved this book, as does my mother who is originally from Silesia, Germany (now Poland). The recipes use authentic ingredients, are easy to follow, and are indicative of the foods from all regions of Germany, not just East, West, South, North like so many other cookbooks. My father was stationed throughout Germany, so we are familiar with the different flavors of Germany and appreciated the author's broad reach so that we could sample our many favorites, and we found new ones, to. My mother is very critical (no surprise!) about German cookbooks and asked me to order this one for her birthday since she's enjoyed the recipes we've prepared.

If the spelling errors and switched illustrations are any indication, the recipes are likely not worth it. I was looking at the recipe for Wiener Schnitzel trying to figure out where the rolling depicted in the illustration figured in the recipe. Might be an ok book if you know German cooking and just need measurements etc. Another hilarious example: a recipe titled "Kuchen". Which one do you mean? ;-)

I was excited to get this book home. After living in America for the last 20 years the time was right to buy a new German cookbook - to brush up on old favorites. But starting on page 16 translation and spelling errors reared their ugly heads. I stopped counting the translation errors somewhere around 30. It conveyed the obvious: sloppiness. If these simple tasks cannot be completed satisfactorily, then how could the recipes be worth trying out. Most likely attention to detail was not to be found there either.
This book went into the recycle bin the day it was purchased. It should not be re- sold at a garage sale as it would be dishonest to disappoint someone else unsuspecting.

I'm very pleased with this book. It has all the recipies I'm looking for, always i have trouble converting measurments from german to english and with this book i do not have to worry about that, it is also written with easy to understand instructions. I'm so pleased that now I'm ordering the polish cookbook, by this author, because I,m from Silisia, eastern part of Germany, now Poland, and we do a lot of polish cooking.

The recipes in this book are not to bad. As a born german ilike these recipes, and to have a source to know what food or materialyou must use in america instead of the original, I appreciate very much. But this book is more. The best partyjoke of the month. Quit 50% spelling of the german names are wrong. My written english s**ks but the german in this book, too.