Gourmet Garnishes: Creative Ways to Dress Up Your Food (ISBN 1402714688)

Love It!:
This is my favorite garnishing book! The directions are clear, the garnishes are pretty and something we can all do. I highly recommend this book!

Simple and easy, but not very useful for advanced home chefs:
If you are looking for a stimulating book to expand your food presentation skill, this is a book on the right subject but probably wrong book for you. This book is basically a collection of little techniques that may be of interest to some beginners, but many of the techniques in this book are so basic that many advanced home chefs who desire to improve the food presentation would already know and perhaps already use. Some of them are so cheesy that they find no place in fine dining, although they may be o.k. for lunch menu. Another thing is that this thin book is divided into 11 chapters, and each one of them is pretty shallow. Also, each technique is isolated and don't relate to each other or offer any information that allows applications of these garnishes to other dishes. I'm not quite sure what audience this book is aiming. I think food presentation is primarily a topic for advanced cooks and chefs, but this book offers a shallow coverage of the topic at a very beginner-friendly way. I think most beginners are working on how to get the taste, fragrance and mouthfeel right. But if you are a beginner who cares how your food looks, this may be for you, but even that, I am not very sure.

I want my money back!:
Ugh, this book is a total waste of money! You do not learn anything new from this book. Most of the things you see here are something everyone already knows or things that you can see on the internet or a food channel. I learned zero new technique. Now I'm thinking of selling this back but who would? I do not recommend this book to anyone.