Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I want to love this book. The first half is interesting, even for experienced cooks. And then you get to the recipes. The section is a mess and seems like it bypassed the editing table. The text will often reference bolded recipes, not all of which can be found in the book; reference page numbers are wrong, and the index does silly things like list a text reference under "tart dough" but a recipe under "Aaron's tart dough" - which is helpful if you can remember Aaron but that's not really the point. Illustrations - which are lovely - in some cases contradict text and/or recipe 'matrices' (cf: onions or no in a beet and citrus salad?). Of course the whole point of the book is that you don't need strict recipes to follow - and I love that notion plus the very clever flavor wheels that talk about logical combinations - but this book reads like it was made to be hyperlinked, and if you're trying to follow a paper version I find it endlessly frustrating.