Cookbooks

Fixate cookbook review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiUg66v5M8Y

Vegan Sandwiches Save the Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99S1UKS7aZw

The Paleo Recipes Book Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7IATGxMqhM

Giada’s Feel Good Food Cookbook Review – kimTV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvMeTq7r9bc

Afro-Vegan by Bryant Terry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXwdNf4rXOE

COOKBOOK REVIEW: Ina Garten’s Make it Ahead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVGaQJMtB0

Lemon Bars – The Costco Way Cookbook Recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOH6LYvFGz8

Thug Kitchen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yndt-AcdE4

Gordon Ramsay Cookbook Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfLn-scsWT4

Cookbook review: Bouchon by Thomas Keller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uRxcezVAgs

The Dehydrator Bible Cookbook Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRpctPnlRJA

QUESTIONS TO TRY TO ANSWER ABOUT THE COOKBOOK REVIEW

  • What cookbook is being reviewed and what can you learn about its author and about the reviewer?
  • How many personal details about the reviewer’s life are revealed in the course of the review…including his/her attitudes and tastes? Does that make the review more or less interesting?
  • How much do you feel you can trust the reviewer’s opinions? Why or why not? Do you think (s)he has any commercial interest in the cookbook? Why do you think so?
  • What are the good points mentioned about the cookbook?
  • What, if any, are some of its negative points?
  • How does the cookbook reviewer emphasise particularly important points—verbally, through paralanguage, or by nonverbal means? Be specific and note down the time in the video when emphasis is given.
  • What do you admire about how this person reviews the cookbook? What criticisms would you make—not of the cookbook but with the style or delivery of the review?
  • When reviewing a cookbook of your own, what techniques would you like to borrow from the reviewer?