![]() ![]() Brush it off, let it dry and see how many more pages you can get dirty.ĭo I still eat take-out? Oh, hell, yes. Don't worry if the butter splatters on the page or the tomatoes drip. Leave yourself notes that you really can't stand capers but everything else in this recipe rocked. Put a post-it note on the ones that actually do turn out to be yummy. Pick something that sounds too delicious, just one thing, and make it. I read cookbooks for fun, but that's an entirely different post.) ![]() (If your mother *did* cook this way? Contact me immediately I'm not too old for adoption.) He's clear and easy to read and he explains things and he generally makes me way less crazy than the Joy of Cooking (I own four copies of three different editions of that one, because people keep buying it for me, and I never use it. One of the good things about Bittman is that he doesn't cook the way your mother cooked. Since I can't come into your kitchens and show you how few steps it takes to make something that tastes fifteen times better than takeout and is so much better for you and costs half as much, I'll point you to Mark Bittman, who wrote the Minimalist column for the New York Times. If I could teach all the people I know and love how easy it is to have real, good, actual food, I'd be a very happy woman. I know so many people who tell me they can't cook, they don't know how, it's too hard, and it's not. Okay, so, October is National Book Month, and there's a meme going around: what book do you want everyone to read, fiction and non-fiction. ![]()
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