PositiveThe Wall Street JournalA talented explainer—on her website she calls herself a \'writer-cook-teacher\'—Ms. Nosrat writes as if playing the role of a fairy godmother who has special gifts to bestow on the reader ... It’s perhaps inevitable that a book so ambitious should also be, in certain of its details, disappointing and occasionally dead wrong ... All the illustrations, charming and lively, are an invaluable complement to the text. They bring explanations to life, and they make the occasionally complex ideas much clearer.
