Do you find it hard to cook food if you never tasted it in real life?

[MaryIsA]

Got given Georgian and Persian cookbooks for Christmas. The recipes look fabulous but I’ve only limited experience of eating either..

Do you just wing it?

I like cooking something I don't know, I have many cook books which include cuisine I never tasted before. . You can assume what it will be like by looking at the ingredients, so I would just avoid recipe that uses ingredients that I or my family don't like.
Just try it out, I'm sure it will taste great.

If you can read you can follow a recipe. Whether it tastes authentic at the end - who knows? As long as it tastes nice that's surely all that matters.