Cookbook Reading - yeah it's a thing

With all the new to me cookbooks in the house you would think one of them would have a recipes for pork tenderloin. Nope, had to look up Alton Brown's bbq recipe that I have made in the past. After dinner I remembered the Milk Street recipe that is very good and I have made many times but it's pan fried. The stove top here isn't level so makes cooking anything challenging. It also requires more spices than I have here. 

Mother's Best cookbook looks good and it got me to thinking want recipes would a Japanese American family add. The MB book is the more traditional middle America comfort food. I did like reading where the recipes came from or the story behind it so for me it was a fun read.  

I also have a copy of the cookbook Lush Life and I found some editing errors right off the bat. If you know me, the written word isn't my thing at all. But when I see errors that should have been caught, makes we wonder. The index in the back has a lot of errors which made me wonder how good were the recipes. So I googled the reviews, which were all 5 stars but one. I read them and all the five star reviews loved the photography of the book, which is nice but none of them had actually cooked anything from it. The one star review agreed the photos were nice but the recipes were just meh. This is one book that's going back to the thrift store. If you just like looking at pictures of food then maybe this is a book for you.