Book reviews
Welcome to My Table magazine’s coffeehouse and bookstore. We’ve highlighted some cooking-, wine- and dining-related books that we think you’ll enjoy. Many (but not all) have a Texas, Houston or Southern connection.
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Spectacular Restaurants of Texas: An Exclusive Showcase of Texas’ Finest Restaurants by Jolie Carpenter ($39.95, Gibbs Smith Publishers) This is a silly and useless book. It’s a large-format, photo-heavy and text-light collection of the interiors of 60-plus restaurants in the state’s largest cities. For each restaurant, photos of varying number and quality (there are roughly three dozen photographers credited) are accompanied by a paragraph or two (or more for Dallas restaurants). This sports the feel of one of those hardcover advertising guides for restaurants that you might find in a hotel, but is not nearly as useful. The information is slight, the writing and editing are sloppy, and the restaurants that are featured will give further doubts about any usefulness. |
