Opera Patisserie: Essential Recipes for French Pastry

I couldn’t understand what is the cake flour or pastry flour class as…? It’ll be great to have explanation at the ingredients glossary section.

I had read about poor recipe descriptions but being a patisserie-boulangerie student and an editor at gastronomy magazines for numerous years gave me an "I can do it"-positive attitute. Detailed subsciptions and information are missing; from steps, to time you need approximately for each step.This is book beautiful; from photography to exceptional typography. Once again though, design is not serving its purpose as even the layout could have been more helpful for the reader-cook.I've been anticipating so much for this book since I cannot travel to Paris and wanted a taste of Opera patisserie and honestly it left me with mixed feelings.

The picture of Grolet and his tight jeaned tattood trendy friends are awful, and sum up an awful book.Grolets obsession with trendiness and his desire to be different means that the illustrations are nothing like those which one would associate with French Patisserie irrespective of their eating quality-a hugh disappointmentThe recipes and instruction are also badly laid out and incompleteNo one should buy this book and Amazon should not stock it.