Book Review: World Food Cafe Quick and Easy

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As a chef, I love to cook interesting foods from around the globe, even if my less than adventurous family isn’t so excited about eating them. World Food Cafe Quick and Easy:Recipes from a Vegetarian Journey by Chris and Carolyn Caldicott gave me to opportunity to try my hand at foods that I may have never tried.

The Good:

I was absolutely enthralled with the beautiful and often breath-taking photos in this book. I found that the richness in colors of not just the recipes, but the people and landscapes that are from the regions the recipes come from really made the book not only something to instruct readers on how to make e=worldly foods, but also made the book quite a conversation piece. The book is full of information and introductions describing each region and country and the people’s way of life. This book reads more like a travel book with a few recipes thrown in and is a great way to get to know historically why the foods used in the recipes are so important to the people’s culture.

The book had great instructions that were easy to follow and a lot of recipes that are must haves for any home cook’s arsenal.

The recipes are easy to find because the book is sorted into regions.

The Bad:

The book, although wonderfully visual appealing was almost too full of information. It was almost over-whelming at times. The food in the recipes is often obviously regional to that area, so the recipes can be complicated to put together and contain expensive, hard to find ingredients. I also wish there would have been more of an explanation of uncommon ingredients so we knew more about where to find them and what to look for.

What I made:

I made the Cranberry and Orange Sauce in the Helsinki & Lapland section of the book. It was absolutely delicious and smelled wonderfully delicious when cooking.