Not a favorite, still in the bookSourced
He found the cake bland.
He published its recipe anyway.
American chef James Beard considered red velvet cake bland and uninteresting. Even so, he included a recipe for it in his 1972 book James Beard's American Cookery.
A recipe need not be
the author's favorite.
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