Comments on: Cute Yummy Time Review

By: jennifer

jennifer — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:35:19 +0000

Looks interesting to spur other creative ideas. I’m oh and dont review my book!! Just kidding I know you’d be nicer to me!! :)

By: t

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:02:56 +0000

I received a copy of the book recently and was appalled at how poorly done it was. The execution was in my opinion amateurish at best and relied heavily on bento accessories instead of original ideas on the part of the author. I didn’t find anything in the book that I wanted to make and some recipes just sounded gross.

For someone who is new to bento making it would be better to save their money and visit bento blogs like yours.

Thanks for the honest review!

By: More (Alleged) Plagiarism! « Apologize, La Carmina (Carmen Yuen)

More (Alleged) Plagiarism! « Apologize, La Carmina (Carmen Yuen) — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 05:23:08 +0000

[...] caps are from a review of her book “Cute Yummy [...]

By: yuck!

yuck! — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 04:46:38 +0000

anyone has evidence that la carmina nabbed recipes? it has been alleged before that she’s stolen other stuff from people.

By: Pikko

Pikko — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:23:55 +0000

Well, she’s obviously got a following of people helping boost her Amazon rating, because there are lots of five star reviews for it by single review people. I don’t know if they’re fake or just high.

By: JHz

JHz — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:47:27 +0000

It’s been documented that this person, La Carmina, steals other people’s photos and claims them as her own, even ones with watermarks on them. She claims to be a fashion expert yet the one thing she is known for in fashion is purposely trying to ruin a fashion show. She jumps on every popular fad, claiming she is an expert, when she isn’t.

I have to wonder who she stole most of this book from. It’s also odd that I can’t find any info about this publisher except they put out a lot of self-help paperbacks. I’m wondering if they are a self publishing company? Perigee Trade is not the same as Perigree books.

I’d say the only thing Ms. Carmina has experience with is self-promotion. Too bad she has to pretend to have experience with other things, people have lost money because of her.

By: maki

maki — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:44:46 +0000

(I meant to say there are 7 reviews for the book on amazon.com up already, obviously)

By: maki

maki — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:43:40 +0000

Interestingly, there are 7 reviews for the book already (for a book that came out on Tuesday…hmm) and except for Pikko’s 1-star review, they are all rave 5-star reviews. Even more interestingly, each of those reviewers only has the one review up on Amazon.

By: Lucia

Lucia — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:18:19 +0000

Yeah, as the other lolitas here have said, La Carmina is NOT a reliable authority on lolita fashion at all, despite her claims otherwise. Most agree that she’s just an attention-seeker, and this book strengthens my opinion that she is not much of an authority on anything. Thank you for your review! It’s certainly a big help to be able to differentiate the good books from the bad before we go out and spend money on them. ^_^

By: veganf

veganf — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:55:06 +0000

Wow, glad I’m not gonna be suckered into purchasing that one!
I’m enjoy 501 Bento Lunches, and I can pick out many of your photos. Despite your reservations, they’re still some of the best photos in the book! I say that to compliment you, as well as to complain about the utter lack of photo quality in some of them (even if they’d been doctored with PhotoShop they still would’ve looked bad). As good as yours were, there were some bentos in that book that looked worse than my first bento attempts back in the 90s! And there was even a duplicate photo in 2 different sections…with 2 different recipes for each, LOL. Still 501 is a massive collection of awesome ideas and coffee table impressiveness. But it sounds like CYT is only good for the coffee table of dieting childless women?! Oy.