Title: Trash
Product review: According to the back cover, this book should be located in the self help/business section of the bookstore. I suggest it be relocated to fiction/comedy. If it's a good laugh your after, buy this book. The section on how to make an authetic minestrone (apparently Da Vinci's favourite everyday dish???) I found particulary amusing. Gelb suggests that while the minestrone is simmering, one should begin enjoying "the synthesis of colours, textures and aromas", as any good cook would. However, Gelb extends this appreciation for the simmering brew with the ludicrous suggestion that one should "sing and hum the sounds of the emerging gustatory and olfacotry symphony" and begin dancing "your minestrone dance". Some tips on appropriate "Renaissance style" correography would have been helpful at this point, however the ever aloof Gelb gets around this by stating that "if you don't know what to do, then you have got the idea"..... What the hell does that mean..?
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