Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: pretty pictures/fussy recipes

This book would look nice on a coffee table but I think it would be of little use to the home cook. Some of the measurements are just plain silly. For example 1 cup plus 1/4 teaspoon cornmeal for cornbread; one recipie with no reason at all for three different kinds of oils, another time a recipe requests 3 teaspoons of an ingredient (1 tablespoon?) The recipes are full of such foolishness. Probably more important almost all of the recipes are too elaborate: consisting of far too many ingredients which result in over-the top baroque combinations. The attempt to be "original" clearly trumps the desire to be sensible. The text about the hotel is mainly self-laudatory..lists of names of famous guests. Clearly not worth the very high price.