I finished Cooking for Mr. Latte (Sidenote: why do I finish the three week books before I start the two week ones? Bad idea, surely.) It's kind of... dippy. I know I read a review of it somewhere (in one of my lady magazines?) that was less than nice. I just don't relate to people who make their own mayonnaise. Also, the "my grandmother uses cheese from the supermarket and doesn't grind her own pepper, but she's a good cook!!" tone brings out the "suck my canned food loving dick, lady" response in me. And her friends! Manhattan residents who consider Brooklyn not New York are just destroyable. I mean, hey, it's quicker for me to get to parts of Brooklyn than it is the UWS, so screw that (ha ha yes even now; I'd still be taking the PATH). And one of Ms. Hesser's friends is Ginia Bellafante. ACK! Remember that severely stupid article in Time about the death of feminism in 98, 99? Dear god. Also, didn't she write a NYT article about not dating men who wear backpacks? Can you really take such a person seriously?
And I don't like the illustrations at all.
Posted by rosemary at April 17, 2004 08:25 PMOH GOD!!! I HATED that book. I just didn't have the specific complaints you did, besides the smugness. And she doesn't look like she eats, and "what I love about you is how your first instinct is to read War and Peace?" And obviously he's reluctant to try new foods!!! I like to call it a defense mechanism.
I think it was Alison K. who coined the term but she totally has the Face of the Infanta. To be perfectly catty about it.
And while I'm at it, who has that kind of time?
Posted by: latte this on April 18, 2004 12:21 PMHere's another thing. On her family trip to Rome, her only plans are for restaurants and other food trips. She seem annoyed with her family's desire to sight see. "Why are they going to the Sistine Chapel and eating pasta instead of eating real Italian food???"
Like, whatever.
Posted by: pass the velveeta & shells on April 18, 2004 01:10 PM