Amateur Gourmet

I finished this book in one sitting. Roberts, a wry, funny narrator who speaks directly to his audience, captures the art of amateur cooking—ranging from the simplest to the most complex. He's unafraid to make his own recipes, torture his family and friends into new culinary experiences, and he also is daring enough to admit using cookbook recipes, which I feel like so few food bloggers and authors admit to.

Roberts, like an increasingly large number of young authors today, keeps a blog about his experiences in learning to cook. The book is composed of pieces taken and expanded upon from the blog. It's not a bad book, given that it is one man's attempts at becoming an amateur gourmet. It's not the end-all of books about learning to cook and shouldn't be read with that expectation. It was a gentle little read, but nothing more.