What a fun way to bring stories to life. It is also a great way for children to see the magic that they can find within the pages if they pay close attention and then can recreate in real life.
Almost exactly the same in set-up and with regard to its content as Roald’s Dahl’s Revolting Recipes (except of course that there are different food and meal ideas presented and that the main author is no longer Roald Dahl but his wife Felicity Dahl), as far as general entertainment value goes, the recipe names and many of the imaginative accompanying photographs shown in Roald Dahl’s Even More Revolting Recipes have certainly hit the spot for me so to speak (as I definitely have very much enjoyed reading over the recipes, looking at Quentin Blake’s artwork, smiling at how imaginative and full of whimsy many of the photographs tend to be and bien sûr also searching for the featured recipes in the respective Roald Dahl novels). However, with regard to Roald Dahl’s Even More Revolting Recipes actually being of much use as a bona fide cookbook (and indeed also one geared towards children), with recipes to try to make (and to later consume), I unfortunately have been for the most part rather annoyed and disappointed. For one, while many of the recipe suggestions (and yes, all of them, as already alluded to above, do seem to have definitely been gleaned from Roald Dahl’s middle grade novels) mostly sound delicious enough, they also and equally are for the most part not really all that healthy in scope and nutritious looking, with often high fat content, heavily meat based or laden with white sugar ingredients (fine perhaps for an occasional treat, but really, on the whole, Roald Dahl’s Even More Revolting Recipes is kind of too much into celebrating unhealthy, lacking in proper nutrition food ingredients and this is especially problematic considering the target audience, considering that the target audience is mainly supposed to be children). And for two, Roald Dahl’s Even More Revolting Recipes also includes far too many food and meal suggestions that seem to require difficult and sometimes even potentially dangerous for novice cooks instructions and equipment. Because yes, I would certainly be very leery letting any young child (below the age of twelve) attempt to make recipes that require juicers, food processors or having to use a candy thermometer, for I know from trying to make things like milkshakes, juices, smoothies and candy as a novice adult cook that mishaps can be dangerous and painful (I once got my fingers caught in a blender and it was just lucky that I did not seriously injure myself). Therefore, while Roald Dahl’s Even More Revolting Recipes does have a certain amount of charm, I actually do not think it succeeds all that well as far as it being an actual and useable child-friendly and health conscious cookbook (and yes, I only decided to even try Roald Dahl’s Even More Revolting Recipes because it is available on Open Library and thus a very quick and easy reading experience, and I was kind of wondering how Roald Dahl’s Even More Revolting Recipes compares to Roald Dahl’s Revolting Recipes, and yes, both are pretty much identical twins and with the same annoying cookbook and food preparation issues).