Unbelievable that the ultimate champion of shamelessness-Momofuku, the cultural appropriation king-is being recommended?! Did everyone conveniently forget how the brand’s founder blatantly ripped off Chinese chili oil?🤬
Thank you for your friendly approach. In my opinion there is at last one recipe in every book which changes your opinion an things. For example: Jamie Oliver and his mozzarella -recipe (one of the earlier books) with sour-cream and chilli. I still like it to this day! Or even something absurd: I cooked from a health book cucumbers with turkey in a soup. That was interesting!
Some of those reviews were giving me "I made this cookie recipe but substituted half the ingredients and didn't add any sugar and I have no idea why it turned out so poorly!" vibes
Calling Italian food out for lacking complexity is absolutely wild considering most Italians HATE overly complicated foods and spice blends that overpower their sauces. Most pasta dishes are supposed to be extremely simple, relishing in the flavours of the base ingredients themselves rather than the things you add to them.
That's why I prefer Italian dishes, they appreciate the natural flavors of the base ingredients (tomatoes, onions and the like) and add flavorings that enhance the taste, not drowning the taste...
I'm convinced that many of these negative reviews are made by individuals who aren't very experienced cooks because no matter the recipe, you should always taste as you go because everyone has a different preference as far as saltiness, sweetness, and heat. I have a few of these cookbooks and can attest to how good they are. That being said, one thing I like to do whenever trying a new recipe is to make it as is the first time, then jot down notes regarding any potential changes I'd make the next time. It doesn't mean the recipe is bad, I'm simply modifying based on MY own preferences.
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Well said. I was thinking the same. It definitely sounds like these people don't cook often. Cookbooks are guides and the first time making any recipe is a trial run! Especially if it's a range of flavors you're not used to working with. My favorite part of cooking is most recipes are incredibly flexible!
my only comment to that is, sometimes i dont want to alter recipes. a lot of the people supposedly study cooking and should know what flavors go good together. i am so disappointed when i sometimes try to by healthy cookbooks only to discover, they dont know what herbs and spices are. like there are many flavors besides salt, and that you dont have to worry about adding if you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes. i hate always having to add to recipes. While i know what spices to add if im cooking an italian dish, i dont know what spices to add to an asian dish to make it better.
@@jamiefrontiera1671 I could see where your lack of experience in a certain type of cuisine could be a challenge, but most cookbooks give specifics as far as ingredients and even suggestions for substitutions within a recipe. Maybe if you had a specific example then I could better understand. Also, many cookbooks offer a section in the beginning pages as well that describes pantry staples and explanations of certain cultural ingredients. I'm Mexican, and I love Korean and Vietnamese food- if you start by stocking your pantry with common items, it's then much easier to add to recipes at the moment based on your flavor preferences.
@@jamiefrontiera1671 That's the problem. There is no universal 'go good together'. For me, food that is spicy, with a lot of salt and pepper is good. What I consider fine, many others would consider significantly over-salted and over-spicy. I put on so much spicy ketchup on my pizza that my family is literally asking me whether I can even taste anything besides the spiciness. At the same time, I cannot stand the idea of eating large amount of meat and vetegables in the same bite. I absolutely hate ANY fruit with meat. Yet there's a lot of recipes that mix these 'unmixable' things. People have different tastes, so what can be graded in food is how coherent it is, how deep is its flavor (by the way, there's a lot of explicitly shallow-flavored dishes world-wide...tofu for example has virtually no taste on its own despite being a dish itself, just because it's meant to absorb taste from sauces etc., so not much of flavor doesn't mean it's a bad recipe), whether its texture is appropriate to the dish (you want your soups to be 'runny', while your cakes to keep their form) and such. Everything else is on a personal basis and cannot be objectively called 'good' or 'bad'.
What's different about The Pasta Queen's recipes is that she's not trying to americanize them, Italian cuisine is simple with great quality ingredients.
Yeah. Many people don't get it that italian dishes dont drown their meat or veggies in the sauce. You have to be able to taste the meat, the pasta, the cheese and the herbs.
And that’s great if simple flavors are your thing. But some of us prefer complex flavors and extra sauce. That doesn't make the original recipe bad, just not for everyone.
Thanks for the explanation. I watched the video and thought that it all looks pretty decent/appetizing. I'm from switzerland and did not get why the recipes were bad rated. I think you got it perfectly on point.
If the internet has taught me anything it's that reading comprehension is at an all time low. Most of these one star reviews are from people who misread the recipe and were not experienced enough cooks to correct their own mistakes.
The person who commented about the Turkish cookbook having recipes labeled from different countries must have been unaware of the Ottoman Empire ever existing.
And to go on about hummus being in a Turkish cookbook like it's cultural appropriation...what a major facepalm. Yes, it's found throughout the Middle East, but I would definitely expect to find it in Turkey.
It is not really about that actually, it is a meze that is commonly eaten especially in the mediterrian parts of Turkey. Indeed there are people who are from arab backgrounds in Turkey, but also people who have no ties to an arabic root consumes hummus really often. It is just really easy and delicious to make, and props to whoever invented it @@user-tw5gu2yh8s
the reviewer that said that the pasta queen's recipes are not easy, probably throws some uncooked pasta with a block of cream cheese in a crockpot, and calls it their signature dish.
a lot of what we consider italian food in the US is actually italian-american food, developed by italian immigrants over the last two centuries as they showed up on a new continent where a lot of ingredients they were used to using were no longer available, so they developed their own cuisine. Also Italian food in Italy has a lot of regional variants and has changed over the last two centuries as well. people who complain about authenticity could at least try to get their facts right.
I think the issue is that Pasta Queen markets herself as cooking authentic Italian cuisine based on her Nonna’s recipes. Listen to her narrative about the origin of meatballs and pasta which she believes is authentic Italian, hence the disconnect
@@PassiveAgressive319did you just ignore the part where people have been arguing whether it’s authentic or not across Italy because SOME regions do it SOME families do it. If her Italian Nan, who is from Italy and learned to cook there does it, it’s authentic. Random people from the US have no say over what authentic vs people actually from the culture passing down these recipes across generations
@@PassiveAgressive319 It is ironically authentic. Pasta Grammar's Eva mentioned that her father ate pasta and meatballs during carnivale as a boy in Puglia. It simply fell out of popularity in the last half century. The dish survived in America where it arrived with Southern Italian immigrant.
Hi. Italian here: Italy 🇮🇹 is small but very varied! Family or regional food are quite varied and maybe not known in all the county’s such as pasta with meatballs. Never had it and never knew that carbonara is made with cream and spinach! And the latter is NOT Italian. Definitely American Italian food is influenced by the regional cuisine of the family’s who has immigrated. In the north of Italy and according to my friends all around Italy a lot of American Italian food is unknown to us. And no one l know had pasta with meatballs or risotto with chicken.
People are really critizing Dylan’s cookbook for having weird recipes when that’s what his whole YT channel is based on? 😂 Don’t buy it if you don’t like the idea! Or him.
I love his cookbook. I mean, the title speaks for itself. Some apparently don't get it. Hah. But to each their own, I suppose. I love his whole vibe as well. I love his innuendos he throws into his video as well. Sometimes, they are so subtle you miss them and they are so brilliant.
Turkuaz Kitchen reviews are insane. The recipes are excellent, and yes, her recipes ARE turkish. Its middle eastern cuisine with twists depending on the country, spices or additions that are slightlybdifferent from region to region. People are really uneducated with comments like that.
cuisines vary widely from one region in Turkey to another. You have more Middle Eastern dishes towards the east, and Mediterranean dishes towards the West. Hell, you have Turkish cuisine in the Balkans.
@@skeptical_citizen That doesn't even make any sense? Mediterranean and Middle Eastern are not mutually exclusive categories... MENA makes up more than half of the Mediterranean. Like Syrian food is both Mediterranean and Middle Eastern, Italian food is both Mediterranean and European etc...
Some people just can't accept the fact that they can't cook. Or at least can't cook what they're unfamiliar with. So they blame the recipe instead of trying again and again to familiarize with it. Cooking like all skills required time and practices.
“Baking Yesteryear” is a collection of culinary curiosities of the last ~120 years. Every recipe in the book is featured on the channel, with Dylan giving his opinion about it. That people than will go off on the book being “weird” is beyond me.
I have Dylan’s book and I love that he put together the recipes he was surprised by and actually liked. He curated them from his growing collection of vintage cookbooks. Seriously, how many of us are going to be able to get our hands on that diverse a collection?
I think people were buying it because they thought it'd be good we're used to but kinda how the recipes started, or like how their grandparents made certain things. Not "Tomato soup cake" or recipes that may or may not summon demons. These people are also likely not familiar with Dylan or his channel
Anybody who knows Turkey knows its a hotspot of cultures existing on top of each other, with many influences still visible, from the romans and byzantine empire, to the various turkish tribes, the kurds, the greeks, the armenians, etc, the arabic influences adopted due to a shared islamic understanding of community, as well as various countries falling under ottoman rule and consequently, similar to arabic tradition, having some aspects of their culture absorbed back into the bigger ottoman/turkish space. Not to mention the fact that Turkey has a surprising amount of various climates within its borders and thus vastly different crops every other 100 km or so (impacting the cuisine like crazy) which has caused 'micro'cultures to form within each province and the differences are staggering. The country is insanely rich in history (gobeklitepe for example), and that includes its people and obviously its cuisine. To claim the label 'turkish' is appropriation is like, the utmost uneducated take i have heard in a long time. You cannot even claim turkish people are white or not without having anthropologists hunt you down, its still unresolved lmao. Anyway, turkuaz kitchen rocks.
B. Dylan Hollis can be found here on TH-cam. He is very fun to follow along with. I am shocked people are so harsh with his book. He likes to dig up old recipes that have been lost to time. It seems to me that the people leaving harsh comments have no clue what he does. Shame really.
Literally! Even if I wouldn't make most of the dishes, I would totally get his book from the library to try the Tomato Soup Cake and a few other recipes that sounded interesting! I love learning about the decades of the past and food is the easiest way to do so!
the best part is that on the amazon page it does write what the book is about, what he does, and that the book includes the best and some of the strangest/most wacky vintage recipes (this is on the back cover too I think). like people simply refused to read what they're actually buying and then got mad about it 😂 also 100% about him being fun, I barely ever cook but his channel is a delight to watch and the recipes I have tried turned out great.
10:51 ok EVERYONE in the Middle East, literally every culture in the Middle East claims they invented hummus. So that’s just not as argument to be taken seriously, nor should you believe anyone who says their culture or country invented hummus
@@kedb621 You gotta claim the hummus before some Italian does it 😂 "Actually, hummus is very Italian tradition since the Roman empire" "My nonna does the traditional hummus recipe"
People tend to think about modern country borders, instead of realizing that borders change, people move, and cultures and cuisines dgaf about such distinctions. Hummus has long been eaten throughout the levant, and that includes Turkiye, along with Syria, Lebanon, and more. Giving a one-star review based on a fundamental misunderstanding is bananas to me. Hummus is delicious, and that's all that matters. I make it regularly in Virginia, so I guess I'm appropriating, too. 😂😂😂
I'd say more, all cuisines consist mainly of dishes and ingredients borrowed from somewhere else. Eating mashed potatoes is not cultural appropriation of native americans.
I don't even think people never not liked to complain in many countries that's conversation-small talk starter #1 101 it's just that we now can to see our over arching positivtiy served on bronze-gold plate 😉
The chocolate mayonnaise cake is amazing. It’s so chocolatey and moist. I love how positive you are with your reviews. Adding more goodness back into the cookbook authors’ lives and the world.
I love Dylan's cookbook and his tiktok. I love vintage cookbooks and recipes. sometimes that recipes are solid but there are other times where you wonder if the recipe writers got into too much sherry and were like yep tuna, olives, and lime jello that's a winner. Recipes can be a product of their time and often reflect what is currently going on in the world so the 50's, 60's and 70's saw more time saving measures with things in cans and jello. Wacky cake for example is a depression era cake that is awesome and is made with out milk and eggs.
Something to remember when discussing a true Italian's (meaning someone living in Italy) recipes is that they're cooking with high-quality ingredients because that's all they have over there. The reason the Pasta Queen's simple recipes work is because the base ingredients are naturally more flavorful than you'd normally find in a standard American grocery store. If you go to a specialty store with Italian brands, and then try the same recipes, you can taste the difference and see why they don't add a million different unnecessary things.
...I feel that...Nowadays in Poland many tomatoes taste like water balloons with small amount of tomato paste mixed into them. They're big, soft and weight a lot, but almost the entire weight is water. The taste is so diluted that you cannot even call them tomatoes anymore. Yet, I still remember (and there are some like that) tomatoes that eaten raw have a delicious, intense taste that you're looking for in a cooked and seasoned food normally.
I was thinking that when some were complaining about lack of flavor. In Italy, they don't necessarily use the amount of garlic and spices that we do in the United States. When Southern Italian immigrated to the States, they started using extra garlic and spices to make up for the inferior ingredient quality.
My take on this is: Many of the reviews were written by people who have reading comprehension issues. They're finding things that just aren't there. Some of the critiques were just bizarre.
How can you claim it’s hard to find basic Asian ingredients such as white pepper, Dashi, prawns when you live near an Asian market? I cry foul on that one…..
I purchased Turkuaz kitchen based on your review 😊 wasn't disappointed at all, the dough recipes are incredibly thorough. I can really recommend baking the cardemon rolls.
The reason why tomato soup cake was good and not weird tasting is because at the base of it all, tomatoes are actually fruit and we tend to forget that lol
I'm Italian and I totally agree with what you're saying, however, personally I get upset when people claim to be making the exact recipe, for example lasagna with no béchamel sauce or carbonara with cream, but I have no problem whatsoever if people say "let's make an easier inspired lasagna dish". I myself always change recipes to fit my preference, so go for it! Also I particularly don't enjoy people talking about dishes that are not Italian as if they were like "Alfredo sauce pasta", I love that there's an Italian influence in American cuisine mostly due to Italian immigrants, I just like to spread accurate informations!🥰
I have the impression that everything started as a lighthearted joke "we, italians get mad" but things started to get serious with some more "traditional" crowd like Vincenzo from Vincenzo's Plate.
On the first recipe. Every time I do a pasta bake, I serve it with extra warmed sauce on the side! No matter what sometimes your bake is a little dry especially when it’s leftover. So just warm up some sauce and serve with it! 😁
I have the Turkuaz Cookbook. All the recipes in that book are beautiful and easy to make. The directions are clear and I didn't find one recipe that was bad or didn't work. No, I haven't made them all. Her food is beautiful. It sounds like someone had an ax to grind.
I love Dylan’s videos. I even have his cook book and have tried out a few recipes which all came out great. But also, the recipes aren’t even his, he doesn’t claim them to be either. He’s a fun guy and just wanted to make recipes he found and liked accessible to people! He even puts a section in the back for the worst recipes he’s tried, like who’s gonna do that if they didn’t want to just have fun and enjoy life? I own a lot of cook books and his is one of those occasions that you’re paying for exactly what you’re getting. How are you gonna give a bad review to a book for doing what it said it would?
Tomato Soup cake was very popular even through the 60s and 70s. We ate very good food back in the 60s but we didn't cook a lot of weird stuff. We lived on a farm and raised our own meat and vegetables and it was *amazing*.
I never comment on youtube videos but I've been following you for probably your entire youtube career and I just wanted to let you know you're my comfort youtuber! your energy is refreshing and as a visual learner, I love love love this series (and your cooking videos in general)! Your cookbook was also my first one I ever bought too! Keep up your creative work
Anyone who read through Dylan's cookbook and said they wouldn't cook anything from it, especially when it has the chocolate mayonnaise cake in it, must've read the titles and wrote them off without actually trying them.
I love these 1-star recipe review videos the most because as the consumer, these books are expensive! I like these videos that test the legitimacy of the most cynical critics. I think a lot of people enjoy this form of content because we don't have $30 pre tax to burn on a new cookbook every day, and want to make sure we're not paying for bad recipes. But I've noticed that every time you make 1-star recipe videos, you always give them a 5 star, no matter how valid the critic was. For instance, you seem more truthful and honest with you're rating when it comes to controversial food products by non-food famous celebrities than when you're reviewing other celebrity/popular chef's recipes. It comes off inauthentic and seems like you are trying really hard to kiss up a fellow cooking influencer. I really love hearing your point of view of the good and the bad with each recipe, but I feel like giving a 5 star just because someone gave a 1 star is not the right approach either. Especially when you've given 5 stars to recipes where I have genuinely thought were deserving of the 5 star rating and so much better than other recipes you've reviewed in the series. Food for thought.
Hummus is a Middle Eastern dish and it is considered traditional in Türkiye. You can find hummus in any local restaurant. There are cities that are famous for their hummus (like Hatay). Keep in mind that 100 years ago a very large empire ruled in those lands and their broad borders historically formed Turkish cuisine. You made it sound like she’s outrageously wrong, but she’s not.
10:50 Turks from Türkiye mostly think that they are from Middle Eastern. You can see these people diffirent when you look at them afar. But many people feel like Ottoman theirselves in Türkiye. Also humus is a traditional dish in Hatay, Türkiye. Because a group of Arabic people had come there durring Ottoman's Empire. Also she had some Tatar's, Bosnian, Persian recipies too on her TH-cam channel. This kind of situations are very complicated, if you don't know history of Anatolia. But both of you are right on your shares.
The first sentence is really wrong.I don’t think same as you are.Cause Turks hates the fact that Türkiye is in middle east.You’re only talking about some religious groups which is probably not more than %20
I try the recipe from yesteryear all the time and it’s amazing all the time. Peanut butter bread avocado bread where really great and everyone in my family finished it in 1 day 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
The thing with Italian cousine is that they don't use a lot of spices, a lot of sauce and a lot of ingredients to make very good dishes, they cook simple and efficient were you can truly taste each ingredient. You don't have to use 5 spices and garlic just to make a tomato sauce, you can just use tomato and basil...and it will still taste great if properly made. Also, if you have good quality ingredients you don't need all those spices, just use some great meat and veggies with salt and pepper
Tomatos are fruit!!! So the tomato soup cake is less weird than it seems in context. And even if it were a veggie we make zucchini cakes and carrot cakes. I feel like when we add enough sugar and frosting all of that is delicious!!
@@lmurph2987 it is the seeding part of the plant. When I realized that I also thought about peppers and beans. There are quite a few fruits we use as vegetables haha
Italian here and we eat pasta with small meatballs. Also Italy has such wide and regional cousine is very different depending of where you live so if you haven't tried it doesn't mean somewhere else in Italy they don't eat it 😅
as someone in marketing i (unfortunately) have to come to the defense of (online) recipes having super long stories at the beginning. they’re actually that way for SEO (search engine optimization) and keyword reasons. it’s really annoying but necessary to push them up in the search algorithm. with that said, i don’t hate it any less lol
My mom (80/not Italian)always made mini meatballs out of ground beef. This is very similar to hers. Never did the cheese bake thing. It was served with a red sauce that cooked all day and spaghetti. She called the mini meat balls “Poe-pet-toes. They were pan fried and never placed in the sauce.
The pasta queen’s recipes are super easy and very very traditional. Her recipes have selected few ingredients that really work so you can’t skip/change. Every step is intentional in the Italian kitchen.
Tiffy cooks is one of my favorites. I've made so many of her recipes. I did buy the book, and I messed up one of the recipes, but I blame the wine.. lol
I think that Tik Tok gives some people the impression that they know how to cook when they have zero skills! They blame the paintbrush when it’s actually the artist’s fault! 😂 Thank you for doing honest reviews of these books to set the record straight!
i made many tiffy cooks recipes and i love them, never had an issue, she is always very clear. And the Hummus dispute is just like dumpling or vodka dilemma, it's a bit of a pointless drama to me
11:19 humus is a middle eastern dish but I believe that a middle eastern humus is made by: Mixing canned turnip and tahini (sesame seed spread)and garlic and 4 tiny spicy peppers and parsley and mix it all together and once mixed add black or white pepper. Once plated add a tea spoon of olive oil to top of and you have made yourself a middle eastern humus!!
you can tell all of the reviewers have some kind of personal beef with the authors. I'm sorry to say some people will do the same thing w/ Honeysuckle's book. People suck lol
I have made quite a few recipes of the Pasta Queen. I love her broccoli pasta and potato pasta recipes, with few changes here and there. I think with Italian food, due to its simplicity, we need to use the best quality ingredients to bring the best taste, like using good quality olive oil, parmaggiano reggiano, tomatoes etc, which may not be accessible or affordable to all. For example, in India where I live, it is very difficult to find Italian ingredients and they can be very pricey. Hence it is best to use the recipes as a guide and make practical substitutions and omissions, when necessary. Not all recipes need to be authentic or fancy, sometimes we just need inspiration.
I'm not THAT old but I'm shocked at how many people don't know about tomato soup cake. This was a bit outdated but still very much a known thing when I was a kid in the 80s. And it's a good cake! I suspect that WWII and dairy/egg rationing help keep it alive.
The first recipe is pretty much how my mom made meatballs and she used chuck cut into squares, sausage, and meatballs for her bolognaise sauce. Italians use what they have on hand.
Some of this reads to me as either inexperience with cooking overall, inexperience with a certain cuisine or cooking technique, or people just not realizing maybe something isn’t for them. I think there’s an overall idea becoming more prevalent where you’re the target audience for everything you come across but you’re not. Like a simple pasta might sound good to you but if you’re used to a really Americanized version it might feel too simple and flavourless to you. That doesn’t mean the recipe was bad it’s just not for you and people don’t want to examine why they might not like something beyond the immediate reaction. In terms of the cooking experience I think some people were maybe hoping for a cookbook that was really going to hold their hand and were disappointed that the recipes were maybe a bit more intermediate than expected or than they perceived. Like my father cannot comprehend the concept of Al dente, if a recipe said the pasta needed to be Al dente he’d be lost even though that seems like a pretty basic cooking concept. In terms of B. Dylan Hollis, people are missing out. He’s a delight, the recipes are weird and sometimes surprisingly good, his videos are fun to watch and these reviewers are obviously missing out. I’m making the 2 ingredient magic oatmeal cookings for Christmas from him for the second year!
We have the Dylan Hollis cookbook. We’ve done the tomato soup cake, the chocolate mayonnaise cake and a bunch of others and they’ve all been FABULOUS! Thank you for lifting him up! He’s a gem! Can’t wait to buy the other books now…
More of this series please! I love it when u change the most bitter comment to the best one. And the way u follow instructions is so comforting and make me think I can cook as well. Anyway get well soon honeysuckle! Ure the sweetest
I'm so glad you this. I love these cooks and follow all but one, but I like his videos also and peek into his channel every so often. I want all of their books. ❤😅
It's crazy to me how someone's first thought is that the recipe (that went through many rounds of testing) MUST be wrong instead of them just not doing it right.
Some of these reviews have either got to be people just reviewing based on others or people who messed up somewhere in the recipe and don't want to take accountability
I Tested 1-Star TH-camr Recipes: th-cam.com/video/XWkDKMK4mSU/w-d-xo.html
Unbelievable that the ultimate champion of shamelessness-Momofuku, the cultural appropriation king-is being recommended?! Did everyone conveniently forget how the brand’s founder blatantly ripped off Chinese chili oil?🤬
@@spencer0217 and the crowd is... confused?
Thank you for your friendly approach. In my opinion there is at last one recipe in every book which changes your opinion an things. For example: Jamie Oliver and his mozzarella -recipe (one of the earlier books) with sour-cream and chilli. I still like it to this day! Or even something absurd: I cooked from a health book cucumbers with turkey in a soup. That was interesting!
Some of those reviews were giving me "I made this cookie recipe but substituted half the ingredients and didn't add any sugar and I have no idea why it turned out so poorly!" vibes
Classic. "I didn't have any nutmeg so I substituted it with chili powder. Awful"
some might call these.... culinary crimes....
They gave me "I skimmed the recipe, didn't even attempt to make it but left a bad review anyway."
Like sausage casserole: am vegan so substituted tofu for sausage, apple sauce for eggs and potatoes for egg noodles...
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Calling Italian food out for lacking complexity is absolutely wild considering most Italians HATE overly complicated foods and spice blends that overpower their sauces. Most pasta dishes are supposed to be extremely simple, relishing in the flavours of the base ingredients themselves rather than the things you add to them.
That's why I prefer Italian dishes, they appreciate the natural flavors of the base ingredients (tomatoes, onions and the like) and add flavorings that enhance the taste, not drowning the taste...
Italian here: yes and thanks. Still some pasta dishes have been made by family as tradition and they have they’re own unique flavour
I'm convinced that many of these negative reviews are made by individuals who aren't very experienced cooks because no matter the recipe, you should always taste as you go because everyone has a different preference as far as saltiness, sweetness, and heat. I have a few of these cookbooks and can attest to how good they are. That being said, one thing I like to do whenever trying a new recipe is to make it as is the first time, then jot down notes regarding any potential changes I'd make the next time. It doesn't mean the recipe is bad, I'm simply modifying based on MY own preferences.
I actually loved reading this comment idk how ur comment is under rated ima like just bc it was very interesting too read and ur also very right what u said is very true😊👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Well said. I was thinking the same. It definitely sounds like these people don't cook often. Cookbooks are guides and the first time making any recipe is a trial run! Especially if it's a range of flavors you're not used to working with. My favorite part of cooking is most recipes are incredibly flexible!
my only comment to that is, sometimes i dont want to alter recipes. a lot of the people supposedly study cooking and should know what flavors go good together. i am so disappointed when i sometimes try to by healthy cookbooks only to discover, they dont know what herbs and spices are. like there are many flavors besides salt, and that you dont have to worry about adding if you have high blood pressure, high cholesterol or diabetes. i hate always having to add to recipes. While i know what spices to add if im cooking an italian dish, i dont know what spices to add to an asian dish to make it better.
@@jamiefrontiera1671 I could see where your lack of experience in a certain type of cuisine could be a challenge, but most cookbooks give specifics as far as ingredients and even suggestions for substitutions within a recipe. Maybe if you had a specific example then I could better understand. Also, many cookbooks offer a section in the beginning pages as well that describes pantry staples and explanations of certain cultural ingredients. I'm Mexican, and I love Korean and Vietnamese food- if you start by stocking your pantry with common items, it's then much easier to add to recipes at the moment based on your flavor preferences.
@@jamiefrontiera1671 That's the problem. There is no universal 'go good together'. For me, food that is spicy, with a lot of salt and pepper is good. What I consider fine, many others would consider significantly over-salted and over-spicy. I put on so much spicy ketchup on my pizza that my family is literally asking me whether I can even taste anything besides the spiciness.
At the same time, I cannot stand the idea of eating large amount of meat and vetegables in the same bite. I absolutely hate ANY fruit with meat. Yet there's a lot of recipes that mix these 'unmixable' things.
People have different tastes, so what can be graded in food is how coherent it is, how deep is its flavor (by the way, there's a lot of explicitly shallow-flavored dishes world-wide...tofu for example has virtually no taste on its own despite being a dish itself, just because it's meant to absorb taste from sauces etc., so not much of flavor doesn't mean it's a bad recipe), whether its texture is appropriate to the dish (you want your soups to be 'runny', while your cakes to keep their form) and such. Everything else is on a personal basis and cannot be objectively called 'good' or 'bad'.
What's different about The Pasta Queen's recipes is that she's not trying to americanize them, Italian cuisine is simple with great quality ingredients.
Yes! And it’s about HOW those are handled. It’s about technique; what brings out the flavors
Yeah. Many people don't get it that italian dishes dont drown their meat or veggies in the sauce. You have to be able to taste the meat, the pasta, the cheese and the herbs.
Agreed!! Generations of Italians had kept to the simple flavourful ingredients. It's not over-complicated.
And that’s great if simple flavors are your thing. But some of us prefer complex flavors and extra sauce. That doesn't make the original recipe bad, just not for everyone.
Thanks for the explanation. I watched the video and thought that it all looks pretty decent/appetizing. I'm from switzerland and did not get why the recipes were bad rated. I think you got it perfectly on point.
If the internet has taught me anything it's that reading comprehension is at an all time low. Most of these one star reviews are from people who misread the recipe and were not experienced enough cooks to correct their own mistakes.
And the not follow the instructions properly.
Yup. I feel the same. Just looking at the type of ingredients each one used, no way this could go wrong.
The person who commented about the Turkish cookbook having recipes labeled from different countries must have been unaware of the Ottoman Empire ever existing.
And to go on about hummus being in a Turkish cookbook like it's cultural appropriation...what a major facepalm. Yes, it's found throughout the Middle East, but I would definitely expect to find it in Turkey.
@@KatieBellino Yeap it is really common here in certain regions
@@KatieBellinohummus is arab but turkey also has a minority arab population so it's not surprising to find it in turkey
It is not really about that actually, it is a meze that is commonly eaten especially in the mediterrian parts of Turkey. Indeed there are people who are from arab backgrounds in Turkey, but also people who have no ties to an arabic root consumes hummus really often. It is just really easy and delicious to make, and props to whoever invented it @@user-tw5gu2yh8s
She tell that things because she is islamophobic .😊
the reviewer that said that the pasta queen's recipes are not easy, probably throws some uncooked pasta with a block of cream cheese in a crockpot, and calls it their signature dish.
Bet you're right😂😅
I absolutely love Turkuaz kitchen. I wonder who would hate her seriously. It's a therapy watching her cook
a lot of what we consider italian food in the US is actually italian-american food, developed by italian immigrants over the last two centuries as they showed up on a new continent where a lot of ingredients they were used to using were no longer available, so they developed their own cuisine. Also Italian food in Italy has a lot of regional variants and has changed over the last two centuries as well. people who complain about authenticity could at least try to get their facts right.
I think the issue is that Pasta Queen markets herself as cooking authentic Italian cuisine based on her Nonna’s recipes. Listen to her narrative about the origin of meatballs and pasta which she believes is authentic Italian, hence the disconnect
@@PassiveAgressive319did you just ignore the part where people have been arguing whether it’s authentic or not across Italy because SOME regions do it SOME families do it. If her Italian Nan, who is from Italy and learned to cook there does it, it’s authentic. Random people from the US have no say over what authentic vs people actually from the culture passing down these recipes across generations
@@PassiveAgressive319 It is ironically authentic. Pasta Grammar's Eva mentioned that her father ate pasta and meatballs during carnivale as a boy in Puglia. It simply fell out of popularity in the last half century. The dish survived in America where it arrived with Southern Italian immigrant.
@@magical11 actuallly i Puglia its still very popular. I still eat it on regular basis xD
Hi. Italian here: Italy 🇮🇹 is small but very varied! Family or regional food are quite varied and maybe not known in all the county’s such as pasta with meatballs. Never had it and never knew that carbonara is made with cream and spinach! And the latter is NOT Italian. Definitely American Italian food is influenced by the regional cuisine of the family’s who has immigrated. In the north of Italy and according to my friends all around Italy a lot of American Italian food is unknown to us. And no one l know had pasta with meatballs or risotto with chicken.
People are really critizing Dylan’s cookbook for having weird recipes when that’s what his whole YT channel is based on? 😂 Don’t buy it if you don’t like the idea! Or him.
Yes thats so absurd, weirdness is his USP 😂😂.
ikr!! i thought the same lol.
I love Dylan’s channel. And I just made the 1895 eggnog and it’s so good! And I usually hate eggnog!
@@honeysuckle hi!!
I love his cookbook. I mean, the title speaks for itself. Some apparently don't get it. Hah. But to each their own, I suppose. I love his whole vibe as well. I love his innuendos he throws into his video as well. Sometimes, they are so subtle you miss them and they are so brilliant.
Turkuaz Kitchen reviews are insane. The recipes are excellent, and yes, her recipes ARE turkish. Its middle eastern cuisine with twists depending on the country, spices or additions that are slightlybdifferent from region to region. People are really uneducated with comments like that.
The commenter is just racist
cuisines vary widely from one region in Turkey to another. You have more Middle Eastern dishes towards the east, and Mediterranean dishes towards the West. Hell, you have Turkish cuisine in the Balkans.
@@skeptical_citizen That doesn't even make any sense? Mediterranean and Middle Eastern are not mutually exclusive categories... MENA makes up more than half of the Mediterranean. Like Syrian food is both Mediterranean and Middle Eastern, Italian food is both Mediterranean and European etc...
Some people just can't accept the fact that they can't cook. Or at least can't cook what they're unfamiliar with. So they blame the recipe instead of trying again and again to familiarize with it.
Cooking like all skills required time and practices.
Yeah and you should be able to follow instructions like it was written down
@@1brogiexactly👍🏻
“Baking Yesteryear” is a collection of culinary curiosities of the last ~120 years. Every recipe in the book is featured on the channel, with Dylan giving his opinion about it.
That people than will go off on the book being “weird” is beyond me.
Right. It's a historical collection cookbook, not an I love everything in here cookbook.
I have Dylan’s book and I love that he put together the recipes he was surprised by and actually liked. He curated them from his growing collection of vintage cookbooks. Seriously, how many of us are going to be able to get our hands on that diverse a collection?
@ exactly. I am looking forward to “Baking across America” (that’s his new book)
I think people were buying it because they thought it'd be good we're used to but kinda how the recipes started, or like how their grandparents made certain things. Not "Tomato soup cake" or recipes that may or may not summon demons. These people are also likely not familiar with Dylan or his channel
Anybody who knows Turkey knows its a hotspot of cultures existing on top of each other, with many influences still visible, from the romans and byzantine empire, to the various turkish tribes, the kurds, the greeks, the armenians, etc, the arabic influences adopted due to a shared islamic understanding of community, as well as various countries falling under ottoman rule and consequently, similar to arabic tradition, having some aspects of their culture absorbed back into the bigger ottoman/turkish space. Not to mention the fact that Turkey has a surprising amount of various climates within its borders and thus vastly different crops every other 100 km or so (impacting the cuisine like crazy) which has caused 'micro'cultures to form within each province and the differences are staggering.
The country is insanely rich in history (gobeklitepe for example), and that includes its people and obviously its cuisine.
To claim the label 'turkish' is appropriation is like, the utmost uneducated take i have heard in a long time. You cannot even claim turkish people are white or not without having anthropologists hunt you down, its still unresolved lmao.
Anyway, turkuaz kitchen rocks.
B. Dylan Hollis can be found here on TH-cam. He is very fun to follow along with. I am shocked people are so harsh with his book. He likes to dig up old recipes that have been lost to time. It seems to me that the people leaving harsh comments have no clue what he does. Shame really.
Literally! Even if I wouldn't make most of the dishes, I would totally get his book from the library to try the Tomato Soup Cake and a few other recipes that sounded interesting! I love learning about the decades of the past and food is the easiest way to do so!
the best part is that on the amazon page it does write what the book is about, what he does, and that the book includes the best and some of the strangest/most wacky vintage recipes (this is on the back cover too I think). like people simply refused to read what they're actually buying and then got mad about it 😂
also 100% about him being fun, I barely ever cook but his channel is a delight to watch and the recipes I have tried turned out great.
They just hate him bc he's a peppy happy zesty guy
Honestly, I think it would be fun to spend an afternoon with him going through his cookbook collection.
People probably just don't read the description on the book and think it's a normal historical cookbook instead of a fun culinary adventure book.
10:51 ok EVERYONE in the Middle East, literally every culture in the Middle East claims they invented hummus.
So that’s just not as argument to be taken seriously, nor should you believe anyone who says their culture or country invented hummus
Yes i laughed so hard when this argument is brought up. Kind of like mahshi or its variants. Who invented it? Who cares!
@@kedb621 You gotta claim the hummus before some Italian does it 😂
"Actually, hummus is very Italian tradition since the Roman empire"
"My nonna does the traditional hummus recipe"
People tend to think about modern country borders, instead of realizing that borders change, people move, and cultures and cuisines dgaf about such distinctions. Hummus has long been eaten throughout the levant, and that includes Turkiye, along with Syria, Lebanon, and more. Giving a one-star review based on a fundamental misunderstanding is bananas to me. Hummus is delicious, and that's all that matters. I make it regularly in Virginia, so I guess I'm appropriating, too. 😂😂😂
I'd say more, all cuisines consist mainly of dishes and ingredients borrowed from somewhere else. Eating mashed potatoes is not cultural appropriation of native americans.
@gabrieldias3479 We should definitely think about this highly unlikely scenario. So glad you made that joke.
I love how you focused on your hands to show the typing was obviously fake 🤣🤣
This was so distracting lol why even bother
7:24 That was the SMOOTHEST sponsorship transition I’ve ever seen.
But Baking Yesteryear is such a great book! That pie crust recipe is one of the best ones I've used
I feel like whoever got the baking yesteryear book doesn’t know anything about the creator and is mad at him for that
I think at this point people just like to complain. All of those sounded simple to make and tasty.
I don't even think people never not liked to complain in many countries that's conversation-small talk starter #1 101
it's just that we now can to see our over arching positivtiy served on bronze-gold plate 😉
The chocolate mayonnaise cake is amazing. It’s so chocolatey and moist.
I love how positive you are with your reviews. Adding more goodness back into the cookbook authors’ lives and the world.
I also put mayo(and vinegar)when baking chocolate cake. I learned it from a chef in a TV show.
Does anyone else feel that Honeysuckle was sick while filming this?? If it's true, i hope she's feeling better.
Yep, her voice sounded like she was recovering from a flu or something like that.
Yes she looks tired her voice is low and shaky
Get well soon 💖💗💕💞💓
God bless you Amen
Post ligma
Yeah sounded like maybe drainage is getting her. Hope she feels better very soon 🩵
hope she feels better as well ❤our queen
I love Dylan's cookbook and his tiktok. I love vintage cookbooks and recipes. sometimes that recipes are solid but there are other times where you wonder if the recipe writers got into too much sherry and were like yep tuna, olives, and lime jello that's a winner. Recipes can be a product of their time and often reflect what is currently going on in the world so the 50's, 60's and 70's saw more time saving measures with things in cans and jello. Wacky cake for example is a depression era cake that is awesome and is made with out milk and eggs.
I learned that there used to be tomato and pickle jello. 😮
Something to remember when discussing a true Italian's (meaning someone living in Italy) recipes is that they're cooking with high-quality ingredients because that's all they have over there. The reason the Pasta Queen's simple recipes work is because the base ingredients are naturally more flavorful than you'd normally find in a standard American grocery store. If you go to a specialty store with Italian brands, and then try the same recipes, you can taste the difference and see why they don't add a million different unnecessary things.
...I feel that...Nowadays in Poland many tomatoes taste like water balloons with small amount of tomato paste mixed into them. They're big, soft and weight a lot, but almost the entire weight is water. The taste is so diluted that you cannot even call them tomatoes anymore.
Yet, I still remember (and there are some like that) tomatoes that eaten raw have a delicious, intense taste that you're looking for in a cooked and seasoned food normally.
I was thinking that when some were complaining about lack of flavor. In Italy, they don't necessarily use the amount of garlic and spices that we do in the United States. When Southern Italian immigrated to the States, they started using extra garlic and spices to make up for the inferior ingredient quality.
My take on this is: Many of the reviews were written by people who have reading comprehension issues. They're finding things that just aren't there. Some of the critiques were just bizarre.
How can you claim it’s hard to find basic Asian ingredients such as white pepper, Dashi, prawns when you live near an Asian market? I cry foul on that one…..
I can literally find these things in my Walmart and Fry's when they're stocked 🙄
I can easily find myself saying that, except I DO NOT live near an asian market. And asian specialty markets are really expensive
I purchased Turkuaz kitchen based on your review 😊 wasn't disappointed at all, the dough recipes are incredibly thorough. I can really recommend baking the cardemon rolls.
I have people requesting Dylan's potato chip cookies all the time. I can't wait for his next cookbook.
The reason why tomato soup cake was good and not weird tasting is because at the base of it all, tomatoes are actually fruit and we tend to forget that lol
Honestly, anytime I see the Italians complain about food i just ignore it. They get so upset over the smallest stuff lol
that's because they think that they are #1 in the world and they should be worshipped. that's not even critics, it's a fact 😅
I'm Italian and I totally agree with what you're saying, however, personally I get upset when people claim to be making the exact recipe, for example lasagna with no béchamel sauce or carbonara with cream, but I have no problem whatsoever if people say "let's make an easier inspired lasagna dish". I myself always change recipes to fit my preference, so go for it! Also I particularly don't enjoy people talking about dishes that are not Italian as if they were like "Alfredo sauce pasta", I love that there's an Italian influence in American cuisine mostly due to Italian immigrants, I just like to spread accurate informations!🥰
I have the impression that everything started as a lighthearted joke "we, italians get mad" but things started to get serious with some more "traditional" crowd like Vincenzo from Vincenzo's Plate.
At least italians keep it to the food...😂
OR, hear me out here… OR we could actually not make up stuff about other countries traditions… just a thought
That cucumber salad looks so good! I'm going to make it this week!
On the first recipe. Every time I do a pasta bake, I serve it with extra warmed sauce on the side! No matter what sometimes your bake is a little dry especially when it’s leftover. So just warm up some sauce and serve with it! 😁
I have the Turkuaz Cookbook. All the recipes in that book are beautiful and easy to make. The directions are clear and I didn't find one recipe that was bad or didn't work. No, I haven't made them all. Her food is beautiful. It sounds like someone had an ax to grind.
I love Dylan’s videos. I even have his cook book and have tried out a few recipes which all came out great. But also, the recipes aren’t even his, he doesn’t claim them to be either. He’s a fun guy and just wanted to make recipes he found and liked accessible to people! He even puts a section in the back for the worst recipes he’s tried, like who’s gonna do that if they didn’t want to just have fun and enjoy life? I own a lot of cook books and his is one of those occasions that you’re paying for exactly what you’re getting. How are you gonna give a bad review to a book for doing what it said it would?
Tomato Soup cake was very popular even through the 60s and 70s. We ate very good food back in the 60s but we didn't cook a lot of weird stuff. We lived on a farm and raised our own meat and vegetables and it was *amazing*.
My mother made tomato soup cake often in the 90s and early 2000s, but she called it spice cake😅 it was very good!
@@ChristinaOurWoodHome You guys really want me to try it huh lol
I never comment on youtube videos but I've been following you for probably your entire youtube career and I just wanted to let you know you're my comfort youtuber! your energy is refreshing and as a visual learner, I love love love this series (and your cooking videos in general)! Your cookbook was also my first one I ever bought too! Keep up your creative work
Anyone who read through Dylan's cookbook and said they wouldn't cook anything from it, especially when it has the chocolate mayonnaise cake in it, must've read the titles and wrote them off without actually trying them.
My mom makes that cake all the time! It’s so moist and you’d never know there’s mayo in it❤
I love these 1-star recipe review videos the most because as the consumer, these books are expensive! I like these videos that test the legitimacy of the most cynical critics. I think a lot of people enjoy this form of content because we don't have $30 pre tax to burn on a new cookbook every day, and want to make sure we're not paying for bad recipes. But I've noticed that every time you make 1-star recipe videos, you always give them a 5 star, no matter how valid the critic was. For instance, you seem more truthful and honest with you're rating when it comes to controversial food products by non-food famous celebrities than when you're reviewing other celebrity/popular chef's recipes. It comes off inauthentic and seems like you are trying really hard to kiss up a fellow cooking influencer. I really love hearing your point of view of the good and the bad with each recipe, but I feel like giving a 5 star just because someone gave a 1 star is not the right approach either. Especially when you've given 5 stars to recipes where I have genuinely thought were deserving of the 5 star rating and so much better than other recipes you've reviewed in the series. Food for thought.
Meatbals and spaghetti is a thing in italy but its done using small tiny meatbals and they are typically dropped in the pasta sauce raw not pre fried
it's sooo good! i love the mini meatballs!
Me too =^-^=
My mom fries them before tossing them into the sauce (I’m Italian and I live in Italy).
It must be a regional thing then because my family is from the south and even in the clips shown they weren't fried first
@@darkqueennyannya159 for sure!
I remember when he first cooked the tomato soup cake and how mindfuck he was that it was good! It was so funny😂😂 14:43
Hummus is a Middle Eastern dish and it is considered traditional in Türkiye. You can find hummus in any local restaurant. There are cities that are famous for their hummus (like Hatay). Keep in mind that 100 years ago a very large empire ruled in those lands and their broad borders historically formed Turkish cuisine.
You made it sound like she’s outrageously wrong, but she’s not.
10:50 Turks from Türkiye mostly think that they are from Middle Eastern. You can see these people diffirent when you look at them afar. But many people feel like Ottoman theirselves in Türkiye.
Also humus is a traditional dish in Hatay, Türkiye. Because a group of Arabic people had come there durring Ottoman's Empire. Also she had some Tatar's, Bosnian, Persian recipies too on her TH-cam channel. This kind of situations are very complicated, if you don't know history of Anatolia. But both of you are right on your shares.
The first sentence is really wrong.I don’t think same as you are.Cause Turks hates the fact that Türkiye is in middle east.You’re only talking about some religious groups which is probably not more than %20
Turkey stole Alexandretta aka "Hatay" from Syria. Hummos, lahm b-ajin ("lahmacun"), knafeh ("künefe) it's all just Syrian/Levantine food cuz "Hatay" is Syrian
11:23 yes the Tahini is key!!!
It's the fake typing for me 🤣🤣🤣
I wasn’t sure if I was being extra when I noticed glad I wasn’t the only one 😂😅
You have to make chocolate mayonnaise cake!!! So densely moist! ❤
I find a lot of people don't follow directions when the dish doesn't come out well. Like i don't like celery i will use something random etc.
I'm kind of soured on momofuku since they went after small businesses over chili crunch.
Thanks for letting others know! It's important to be aware 🤍
The fake typing gets me every time. I love it. 😂😂😂
I try the recipe from yesteryear all the time and it’s amazing all the time. Peanut butter bread avocado bread where really great and everyone in my family finished it in 1 day 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
I LOVE The Pasta Queen. I have that cookbook and I think it's wonderful. She's wonderful in general.
I actually follow the Turkish lady and I LOOOOVE her videos.
The thing with Italian cousine is that they don't use a lot of spices, a lot of sauce and a lot of ingredients to make very good dishes, they cook simple and efficient were you can truly taste each ingredient. You don't have to use 5 spices and garlic just to make a tomato sauce, you can just use tomato and basil...and it will still taste great if properly made. Also, if you have good quality ingredients you don't need all those spices, just use some great meat and veggies with salt and pepper
I loved this. You cook accurately and well so you can objectively rate these recipes. Well done!
Im so happy to see rosiemaio's nonna being shown in a famous TH-camrs vid😭😭😭 i love their family so much.
Tomatos are fruit!!! So the tomato soup cake is less weird than it seems in context. And even if it were a veggie we make zucchini cakes and carrot cakes. I feel like when we add enough sugar and frosting all of that is delicious!!
Zucchini is also a "fruit" :P
@ajuntapall6193 damn... how'd I live my whole life not knowing this
@@lmurph2987 it is the seeding part of the plant. When I realized that I also thought about peppers and beans. There are quite a few fruits we use as vegetables haha
Italian here and we eat pasta with small meatballs. Also Italy has such wide and regional cousine is very different depending of where you live so if you haven't tried it doesn't mean somewhere else in Italy they don't eat it 😅
I hope you feel better soon, Honeysuckle 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️
haha thanks mom!! 💗
@@honeysucklethat's your mom??!!
This is why I love ALL types of cooking. I didnt know what black vinegar was. Googled. And now i have to go buy some. 🥰😘
I just bought my first bottle! Makes Chinese style dishes taste way more authentic.
as someone in marketing i (unfortunately) have to come to the defense of (online) recipes having super long stories at the beginning. they’re actually that way for SEO (search engine optimization) and keyword reasons. it’s really annoying but necessary to push them up in the search algorithm. with that said, i don’t hate it any less lol
My mom (80/not Italian)always made mini meatballs out of ground beef. This is very similar to hers. Never did the cheese bake thing. It was served with a red sauce that cooked all day and spaghetti. She called the mini meat balls “Poe-pet-toes. They were pan fried and never placed in the sauce.
It's that a play on the Italian word "polpette" wich means " meatballs" ?
The pasta queen’s recipes are super easy and very very traditional. Her recipes have selected few ingredients that really work so you can’t skip/change. Every step is intentional in the Italian kitchen.
I have the pasta queen cookbook and all recipes I tried were GORGEOUS
Tiffy cooks is one of my favorites. I've made so many of her recipes. I did buy the book, and I messed up one of the recipes, but I blame the wine.. lol
I think that Tik Tok gives some people the impression that they know how to cook when they have zero skills! They blame the paintbrush when it’s actually the artist’s fault! 😂 Thank you for doing honest reviews of these books to set the record straight!
I love how positive you are in all your videos. ❤ I don't know if I've ever seen you give a low rating. You're just pure joy. 🎉😊
I love how you cooked every meal. I do believe that some people are not meant to cook 😅 I wonder if they really followed the instructions well 😅
you made these recipes feel so accessible and i love the way u emote omg instant subscribe
Thank you for bringing a little bit of positivity to the internet. ❤❤❤
honestly, on that first recipe "it's a lot of parmigiano".. no girl that's bare minimum to get a nice cheesy crunchy top of the baked pasta :)
i made many tiffy cooks recipes and i love them, never had an issue, she is always very clear. And the Hummus dispute is just like dumpling or vodka dilemma, it's a bit of a pointless drama to me
11:19 humus is a middle eastern dish but I believe that a middle eastern humus is made by:
Mixing canned turnip and tahini (sesame seed spread)and garlic and 4 tiny spicy peppers and parsley and mix it all together and once mixed add black or white pepper.
Once plated add a tea spoon of olive oil to top of and you have made yourself a middle eastern humus!!
The "canned turnip" is throwing me off
I don't think that is how
The hummus one looks so good🤤
I freaking LOVE Dylan his videos are always fun and funny. Thanks for including him. This was my first video of yours and it was really good Kudos!
you can tell all of the reviewers have some kind of personal beef with the authors. I'm sorry to say some people will do the same thing w/ Honeysuckle's book. People suck lol
Thank you so much for your demonstrations of these recipes and Honest reviews.❤
I have made quite a few recipes of the Pasta Queen. I love her broccoli pasta and potato pasta recipes, with few changes here and there.
I think with Italian food, due to its simplicity, we need to use the best quality ingredients to bring the best taste, like using good quality olive oil, parmaggiano reggiano, tomatoes etc, which may not be accessible or affordable to all. For example, in India where I live, it is very difficult to find Italian ingredients and they can be very pricey. Hence it is best to use the recipes as a guide and make practical substitutions and omissions, when necessary. Not all recipes need to be authentic or fancy, sometimes we just need inspiration.
Enjoyed your commentary, reviews of these cookbooks and trying out the recipes within them! Fun idea.
I'm not THAT old but I'm shocked at how many people don't know about tomato soup cake. This was a bit outdated but still very much a known thing when I was a kid in the 80s. And it's a good cake! I suspect that WWII and dairy/egg rationing help keep it alive.
The pasta queen is great. She is perfect in doing genuine Italian food with natural and simple ingredients.
The first recipe is pretty much how my mom made meatballs and she used chuck cut into squares, sausage, and meatballs for her bolognaise sauce. Italians use what they have on hand.
yayyyy i was so excited! this is my favorite series of yours!
Can’t wait for your cookbook to arrive. I bought it for a Christmas present to me!! ❤❤
It's a wonderful book, you're going to love it!!
Some of this reads to me as either inexperience with cooking overall, inexperience with a certain cuisine or cooking technique, or people just not realizing maybe something isn’t for them. I think there’s an overall idea becoming more prevalent where you’re the target audience for everything you come across but you’re not. Like a simple pasta might sound good to you but if you’re used to a really Americanized version it might feel too simple and flavourless to you. That doesn’t mean the recipe was bad it’s just not for you and people don’t want to examine why they might not like something beyond the immediate reaction.
In terms of the cooking experience I think some people were maybe hoping for a cookbook that was really going to hold their hand and were disappointed that the recipes were maybe a bit more intermediate than expected or than they perceived. Like my father cannot comprehend the concept of Al dente, if a recipe said the pasta needed to be Al dente he’d be lost even though that seems like a pretty basic cooking concept.
In terms of B. Dylan Hollis, people are missing out. He’s a delight, the recipes are weird and sometimes surprisingly good, his videos are fun to watch and these reviewers are obviously missing out. I’m making the 2 ingredient magic oatmeal cookings for Christmas from him for the second year!
You make cooking look so effortless
Anyone surprised that it's always the people who use words like "cultural appropriation" that get way too mad on stuff like this?
We have the Dylan Hollis cookbook. We’ve done the tomato soup cake, the chocolate mayonnaise cake and a bunch of others and they’ve all been FABULOUS! Thank you for lifting him up! He’s a gem! Can’t wait to buy the other books now…
I have Dylan’s cookbook and love it!!! I can wait to get the next one that is coming out!!!
More of this series please! I love it when u change the most bitter comment to the best one. And the way u follow instructions is so comforting and make me think I can cook as well. Anyway get well soon honeysuckle! Ure the sweetest
I love how you always turn negative reviews into 5 stars reviews.
i need to troll the trolls... lol!
Omg i love your vids btw ❤
I'm so glad you this. I love these cooks and follow all but one, but I like his videos also and peek into his channel every so often. I want all of their books. ❤😅
It's crazy to me how someone's first thought is that the recipe (that went through many rounds of testing) MUST be wrong instead of them just not doing it right.
Those 1 star reviews are basically skill issues 😂
Some of these reviews have either got to be people just reviewing based on others or people who messed up somewhere in the recipe and don't want to take accountability
For the first one. You have to add salt to canned tomatoes (always) the only thing that probably makes up for this is the huge quantity of Parmesan
UGGHHH I WANT DYLAN'S COOK BOOK, I LITERALLY JUST HAD MY VINTAGE CLASS CHRISTMAS PARTY...!!!!
The knafeh is so yummy and beautiful! The "vermicelli" I think might actually be kataifi/shredded phyllo.
I BEEN BINGING YOUR VIDEOS FOR 2 WEEKS IM SO HAPPY THERES NEW CONTENTTTT
yayyyy!!