Alchemy of the Mortar & Pestle

It has the merit of existing, and being literally the only book I have found so far on the subject.
It gives a lot of combination ideas. Some useful generalities presented.
But it is also heavily flawed...

Just to name a few points:

- It is completely unreferenced, which is seriously problematic for a “research” book. Some information I know to be wrong, regarding traditionnal French recipes, for example, or nutritional “facts” stated as such. Much of the information I had already found, in often greater detail actually, on Wikipedia. Shortcuts are taken, and a lot of what is presented is relatively superficial, needing specification and context. Gives lengthy irrelevant information while skipping over things you would be expecting.

- It lacks an index by ingredient and, for the “home remedies” part, by ailment. Very un-user-friendly as is. Some layout mistakes. General presentations per section lacking.

- Going much too specific before having covered the generalities in a thorough and efficient way, and they never get covered: you get told how to make tahini sauce, for example, but pure tahini per say is not mentioned. Nor are many other basics.

- Subjective statements which one can have serious cause to disagree with and which avoid the authors actually giving proper info on the topic, such as that there is no particular method to physically using a pestle and mortar, or that the materials it is made of are irrelevant beyond personal preference, or that any one over 50$ is “not worth it” because you are just paying for design (How about quality vs shitty materials? Exploited factory workers vs artisan craft? Made halfway across the world at reduced cost vs in your local area?) And I could go on.

Basically would have made a very good first draft, but where did the editors go?