Helpful Score: 1
I love books with food as an integral part of them. However, they should also have a wonderful story line, or else I'll just read a cookbook! Angelina's Bachelors has a wonderful storyline. It's about grief, and friendship, and love. Food plays a major role. While the food is interesting, and the recipes look great, although pretty gourmet, (and I'm pretty good in the kitchen) I think the food descriptions were a little too heavy. Every meal, every bite is described in detail. Even when she makes a "casual" lunch of a sandwich, we get an entire paragraph on what exactly is on that sandwich. I would have liked more about the bachelors, and about Angelina's thoughts and emotions then every detail of every tablespoon of spice. However, I would recommend this book!
Deborah T. (nysbikergirl) reviewed Angelina's Bachelors: A Novel with Food on + 97 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book. If you like Italian cooking, the New Jersey flair for Italian slang, and resturants, and big Italian family neighborhoods, you will love this book.
Parts were very far fetched, such as how can Angelina while fighting her grieving heavy heart, cross town searching for gourmet ingredients, visiting 4 or 5 stores, get back home then made a scratch pasta, yeah, from flour and eggs...5 course dinner,including multilayered sauces, and combinations only seen in high end resturants- serve it to 6 people, visit with them, do the clean up...all in one day-6 days a week? Other than that wonder woman aspect, I loved the characters, and the growth each of them made throughout the story. There are some surprises, but they can be guessed at quite easily. These factors are very forgivable because the book is so warmly written, so full of fun and family, let alone the delicious food, food, food, it is a winner.
Parts were very far fetched, such as how can Angelina while fighting her grieving heavy heart, cross town searching for gourmet ingredients, visiting 4 or 5 stores, get back home then made a scratch pasta, yeah, from flour and eggs...5 course dinner,including multilayered sauces, and combinations only seen in high end resturants- serve it to 6 people, visit with them, do the clean up...all in one day-6 days a week? Other than that wonder woman aspect, I loved the characters, and the growth each of them made throughout the story. There are some surprises, but they can be guessed at quite easily. These factors are very forgivable because the book is so warmly written, so full of fun and family, let alone the delicious food, food, food, it is a winner.
I enjoyed this book. I loved the recipes. I thought it was a bit formulaic and trite, but it is a perfect beach book.
