Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Dan of West Hollywood has written a great & accurate review of this cookbook. I feel even more negatively than he about this book. I bought it because I was looking for an ice cream "Bible" cookbook. Maybe if you're a suburban soccer mom with a large team's worth of mouths to feed this would be a great book. But if you've been making ice cream for several yrs. & want to be challenged to greater heights of ice cream making; or you have a bit more sophisticated palette, I wouldn't buy this book. Why are there no chocolate ice cream recipes asking for real chocolate (instead of cocoa)? Why do all vanilla recipes require liquid vanilla and not the far superior vanilla bean pod? Why do fruit recipes call for canned, rather than fresh fruit? Why does cherry ice cream call for cherry syrup, when a fresh cherry's natural juices make the best syrup you can buy? I could go on and on. If you're getting started in ice cream making this book is a good start. If not, go elsewhere. BTW, I'm still looking for the ice cream bible so if anyone has recommendations... Richard