kaye16's Reviews
Cookbook Reviews
Under The Lime Tree.Cook!
By Nikki Emmerton
Pyjama Press - 2011
I bought this book because I'd tried and very much liked one of the recipes that appeared in a local expat magazine. It's a thin, square, paperback, quite attractive, with the lovely, cluttered look of a self-produced book. I'm finding several more recipes I'd like to try. All the recipes are vegetarian and many are vegan or give vegan substitutions.
However, the typographical style of the recipe ingredient lists is extraordinarily annoying. I've never seen anything like this and hope never to see it again. The numbers in the quantities (except for fractions) and some of the punctuation marks are ... superscripted! Readability plunges.
Cookbooker's limited formatting for reviews does not allow me to demonstrate, but imagine "75g soft margarine (chilled)" with the 75 and the two parenthesis made smaller and raised from the baseline. The first time I saw "1 onion, peeled & chopped", I was looking for a footnote numbered "1" (odd to put a footnote at the start of the line, I though) and thought the comma (,) was a speck midway up the "n". This conceit appears only in the ingredients lists, thank goodness!