At Home with May and Axel Vervoordt: Seasonal Recipes for Every Occasion - Perfect for Family Gatherings, Dinner Parties & Cozy Nights

The photographs are gorgeous, the color sensibility very Flemish; many of the photos look like a corner from a Vermeer painting. So, as an "art" book, I love it. However, if you are looking for recipes for traditional Flemish dishes, this is not the book for you. Many of the recipes use herbs and other ingredients that are never found in traditional Flemish cuisine. For Americans, there should have been notations suggesting alternatives to certain ingredients, i.e. nettles, sucrines, chervil. I live in California; I'd never heard of a sucrine and the last time I saw a nettle was in Belgium. Perhaps it's different in other parts of the U.S., but here in southern California you will have a very hard time finding fresh chervil, or even dried chervil. As beautiful to look at as the book is, the style of life it describes, and the recipes, are for the most part rather esoteric.