nothing new, boring plot
It's a pity such a horrible book has received such good critics. I think what happens on it is somewhat ludicrous. The psychology of the characters is completely unbelievable; they do things one could never have expected from them and yet you can guess the plot before having finished the first chapter. It's boring, it tells you too much about cooking and nothing interesting happens on it. Isabel Allende's novel, The house of the spirits, is in a way similar to this book, but it has nothing to do with it because hers is really great, the characters are well-made and the plot is fascinating.