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[melissagirard]

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

[LaGüera]

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.

[rileyhudson]

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.

[lilykep]

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.

[LexMeRep]

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.

[abetterone]

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.

[mahnoormujtaba]

I absolutely love Turkuaz kitchen. I wonder who would hate her seriously. It's a therapy watching her cook

[rachelb]

The person who commented about the Turkish cookbook having recipes labeled from different countries must have been unaware of the Ottoman Empire ever existing.

[hermiona]

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.

[tdexth]

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.

[mbp]

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.

[littlecomawhite]

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.

[balllee]

“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.

[Valg]

B. Dylan Hollis can be found here on YouTube. 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.

[kedb]

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

[funmif]

I love how you focused on your hands to show the typing was obviously fake 🤣🤣

[Zezeze.]

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.

[Windgoddess]

7:24 That was the SMOOTHEST sponsorship transition I’ve ever seen.

[roymustangsgirl]

I feel like whoever got the baking yesteryear book doesn’t know anything about the creator and is mad at him for that

[islandgirl]

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.