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Bittman Takes on America’s Chefs

By Kim Shook
October 12, 2008 in Food Media & Arts

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Kim Shook

Posted October 12, 2008

I just bought Bittman Takes on America’s Chefs. I haven't finished reading it yet or cooked anything from it. From my perusal, it seems interesting and well written and the chefs are wonderful ones. All good. Except for the photos. They are distractingly bad. Bad color, not in focus, etc. Sometimes you can't even tell what you are looking at. In one shot, I was convinced I was looking at chicken with butter beans and they ended up being olives. The photos reminded me of the ones you find in those old series books. This is a $25 book by a famous, accomplished cookbook author involving chefs who are established and very much the real deal. How do you put out a book with such lousy pictures? Did I end up getting a flawed copy somehow? The text is fine.

Anyone else seen this book and notice this?

Kim

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