Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Beautiful book. However it feels a little whimsical for my taste. I wouldn’t say this is a culinary odyssey by any stretch. I agree with another reviewer that there is way to much dairy on all the boards and the author is a vegetarian but her boyfriend isn’t? Cute couple makes a book together, I get it. I did love the authors Instagram though. While I like the idea of themed boards, this whole book left me wanting more. I envisioned more of a refined approach to charcuterie and board making. While this book screams fun with fresh looking typeface perhaps geared to young moms or people in their 20’s or better yet folks new to entertaining? The candy board was lost on me. Too low end for my taste. I don’t get inspired by looking at piles of processed food I’ve seen before, I can’t begin to take this book seriously. The cubed cheese throughout the book makes me shrill. I don’t think cubed cheese is classy, it screams supermarket deli tray! Let me add that I do build grazing boards for a living and was excited there was a book on this subject. It was the first title I bought. In lieu of ordering this book, it prompted me to dig deeper and the book SAVOR is way more in tune with the look and feel I want to emulate. Lady and Larder, a board based company out of LA, also has inspiring, stunning boards worth checking out, look on Instagram! I’ll probably keep this book as a reference guide but it just doesn’t do it for me. Maybe I’ll wait for that special budding host or hostess to gift it to.