Cooking Price-Wise: A Culinary Legacy
Published 2017 · 208 pages · 57,200 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Nonfiction, Memoir & Autobiography
How hard is Cooking Price-Wise: A Culinary Legacy to read?
Cooking Price-Wise: A Culinary Legacy scores 13 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 20 out of 100
- A recipe collection written for home cooks uses everyday kitchen language and plain instructions. Culinary terms are familiar ones, much closer to the simple vocabulary of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret than to any literary text.
- Sentence structure: 20 out of 100
- Recipe steps run in short imperative sentences, with brief anecdotal asides from the travel journals and reminiscences. The structure is direct and easy to follow.
- Abstraction: 12 out of 100
- The content is concrete: ingredients, techniques, dishes and travel memories. Like Asterix the Gaul in its plainness, it asks for no theoretical thinking.
- Information density: 30 out of 100
- Scores of recipes plus historical tidbits and journal entries give steady practical information, but each item is self-contained and light. Density sits near the light end, close to Beach Read.
How Cooking Price-Wise: A Culinary Legacy is regarded
Cooking Price-Wise: A Culinary Legacy holds a literary regard score of 18 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.