639342 Sat Jul 25 07:57:56 -0700 2009 2 33 Food Media and News 0 4889491 I seldom put down a book without finishing it, especially if it concerns food in any way, shape, or form, but this is definitely joining the short list of those I have. I find the author's tone too cutesy by 1000%. It seems to be geared to an audience of snobbish and very self-concerned twentysomethings, which I do not imagine to be the biggest possible target demographic for a book of this kind. She began to lose me at the repeated snotty references to a fellow student as a middleaged biddy (do people even use that word anymore?) and lost me completely at the very nasty comments about food shopping in Chinatown and her perceived differences in hygienic standards between Asian and non-Asian cultures. The subtitle "Saucy Tales from Culinary School" reminds me of what my mother really meant when she called me saucy when I was being a pain as a child. Do yourself a favor and read a good book of this sort, such as Spiced by Dalia Jurgensen or The Sharper the Knife, the Less you Cry by Kathleen Flinn. Sat Jul 25 07:57:56 -0700 2009 13709 buttertart 1 4890233 Oh too bad...I just bought it, but haven't started it yet. I usually don't buy food related books without a recommendation from somewhere I trust, but I saw it at the store and grabbed it. I also recently read I Loved I Lost I Made Spaghetti by Guilia Melucci and it was pretty bad too. The recipes were a joke, all taken from food magazines and "adapted". I have read The Sharper the Knife and enjoyed that. Right now I am reading A Homemade Life by Molly Wizenberg, but I just started it, so I can't recommend yet! Sat Jul 25 15:02:06 -0700 2009 4889491 142362 sibeats 2 4891187 Try it, maybe you'll like it - although maybe not. The only recipe I read in it so far was for pasta dressed with broken mayonnaise, which struck me as revolting. I liked A Homemade Life a lot until I got to the rhapsodic descriptions of her meeting and marrying her husband, which were a bit too icky-poo for me (maybe I'm just old and jaded...). Sun Jul 26 06:55:14 -0700 2009 4890233 13709 buttertart