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I had high hopes for this book after seeing Tyler make an absolutely mouth-watering looking fried chicken on his program. When someone bought this off my Amazon wishlist later on, I was hoping that we would at least have that one recipe, plus a whole lot of other good ones. I was wrong. The recipes in this book are awful. Many are flat out inedible (macaroni and cheese topped with onions and peas comes readily to mind), and few have obviously been tested before publication. The directions for most of the recipes haven't even been copy-edited properly. I understand that celebrity chefs are often lazy, but this is the worst example of that I've ever seen. This book was quite obviously written by interns who don't even know how to cook. Adding insult to injury, the fried chicken recipe wasn't even the same one from the show, meaning someone wasted $25 on this pathetic excuse for a cookbook for absolutely no reason whatsoever. It's almost as though Tyler couldn't be bothered to even donate any of his own recipes, forcing some poor college student to recreate them (poorly) from the show. On top of that, the fact that Florence may quite possibly be the most arrogant man on the planet and obviously wrote his own copy about how every recipe in the book is the best ever is just tacky. Why go through that much effort to toot your own horn and not even bother to write out your own recipes?
I gave this book chance after chance, every time trying a new recipe thinking "it can't possibly be as bad as the last one". Every time, this book ruined dinner, guaranteed. I cannot say that for any other cookbook I have ever owned, before or since, and I've been told I'm a fairly good cook. This book is so bad that even a new hardcover in good condition had no resale value. After the third or fourth time that this book produced an utterly inedible meal, I finally said enough was enough and donated it to Goodwill. Tyler Florence has permanently lost my business, and my respect.
I gave this book chance after chance, every time trying a new recipe thinking "it can't possibly be as bad as the last one". Every time, this book ruined dinner, guaranteed. I cannot say that for any other cookbook I have ever owned, before or since, and I've been told I'm a fairly good cook. This book is so bad that even a new hardcover in good condition had no resale value. After the third or fourth time that this book produced an utterly inedible meal, I finally said enough was enough and donated it to Goodwill. Tyler Florence has permanently lost my business, and my respect.
