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Title: She needs an editor and some cheese with her whine....
Review: I knew I would be in trouble when she repeated exactly the same quote from a cookbook only 6 pages apart. Still, I dutifully slogged through this book and came away disgusted and bored. She raises a few good points in the book, but those gems were obscured by her 300+ page diatribe against everything involving food. I got the sense that she doesn't particularly enjoy eating and can't consume even a bite of food without feeling either guilt or anger. And this book really has no sense of what it's supposed to be -- did she mean it to be a memoir? A social critique? Or just therapy for herself? Too bad this was actually nominated for a Beard award. It shows that food writing has a long way to go.
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