book review: how to be a domestic goddess

If you notice the right navibar, I’ve included a section called The Week’s Read, featuring cookbook(s) I’ve purchased or borrowed from the library. As a new resolution to push myself to try out more recipes in the books, and to ease the guilt of cookbook purchase, I will occasionally post a review on a book I’ve gotten hold of, or share any of my personal favourites.

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I must be honest in that I almost always judge a book by its cover, and with the hundreds of new cookbooks in the market every year, it is no surprise that I am lured in by beautiful photography. Domestic Goddess boasts a clean style with minimal props and styling, primarily with a light background and centralised subject. The plain fairy cake adorned simply with a pastel sugar rose on the cover is as enticing as its title, and definitely appeals to the modern woman seeking recognition in the kitchen.

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dreaming of cinnamon

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If there was another flavour besides chocolate that would definitely entice me on a dessert menu, it would be the mysteriously olfactory word ‘cinnamon’. More often than not, it would either be accompanied by its famed frolicking fruit partner, or seeking comfort in every curve of a fluff.

However, I’m pretty sure that any cinnamon fan can attest to those days when you just wish to embrace the seemingly unadulterated taste of cinnamon. A dessert that would boast its spicy sweet scent, flatter its deep golden brown freckles, and evoke comforting reminiscence of simplicity. And when one of those quiet afternoons drop by, one must surely allow vivid specifications of the mental palate take reign over the day’s epicurean escapism.

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