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Title: beautifully written, but not useful for this reader
Review: This cookbook, witty and wonderful as it is, will never be very useful to me. I loved the narrative; I don't think I've ever read a cookbook so intently. However, this book does not suit my needs as a cook. The base ingredients are butter, flour, and sour cream, for instance. As much as I would love to eat liqueur-spiked sour cream-based dishes every night, I cannot. I don't have time, and need a more modern, health-sensitive approach to cooking. The writer's assertion that anything fresh is healthful is not accurate, obviously. I also disagree with the writer that anything combination of ingredients that one comes up with is wonderful...maybe needing only the addition of salt (paraphrase).In short, I guess this cookbook is too sophisticated for me. I consider myself a good cook with eclectic tastes, but apparently I'm not as sophisticated as all that.I find this book entertaining and inspiring to read, but not useful for everyday application.
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