Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Let me preface this with the fact that I own every single cook book that Maria Emmerich has put out. I have found the majority of them to be helpful. This cookbook seems to be more of the same that Maria has put out in previous years. When I say "more of the same" I mean that many of the recipes are for the same dishes that you can find in other cookbooks from Maria. I also mean that She needs to fire her editor! All of her cookbooks have errors in them. From missing cooking times, to missing instructions. I assume that this is to be expected in some regards. Nobody can find all the errors in a book in my humble opinion, but take the two pictures that I have included with this review. One is missing the name of the recipe and the other references a page number that doesn't exist. Had these two discrepancies been unique to Maria's book I would call it an "oops", but this book has many errors in it. I'm beginning to think that Maria is no longer trying the recipes she is putting her name on and instead is just giving her approval "sight unseen". Needless to say I will no longer be purchasing cookbooks by Maria Emmerich. As I previously stated her cookbooks are helpful, all of them, including this one. But I can only have so many cookbooks with a recipe for the same meatballs and I can only spend so much time reading and re-reading a recipe to make sure there isn't any "gotchas" in it. For example, I made the lemon ricotta torte that can be found on page 286 tonight. The recipe states that it requires 30 minutes (for the cake only) of cook time. I finally gave up on the cake being done after cooking the cake for an additional 10 minutes 3 times in a row (so total cook time was 65 minutes). Maybe I did something wrong, I'm not a professional, but evidently, neither is Maria's editor. I have rambled enough......purchase at your own risk.