For some rediculous reason, they didn’t seem to have ANY of her books at B and N, even tho they’re in the same mall, and I know I wasn’t the only one there just out of “Julie and Julia.”

I wasn’t able to grab this book thus far, seeing as I can’t cook at all, but I’ll go along with everyone else on this for now.

I did happen to find a few at the store that looked promising in terms of being accessible (meaning none of the stuff in it is hard to find) and easy–for anyone interested: Readers’ Digest “Just five things” by Rachel Lane, and “Anyone an cook,” from Better Homes and Gardens. This one goes down to the simplist parts of cooking if you need that help, and praise be, there’s none of the horrendously bad photograpy as in the other several-times printing other “Better Homes” cookbooks; those pics don’t look like anything I would feed my dog, much less a human. It all tends to remind me of the hilarious book by James Lileks, “The gallery of regrettable food” (real pics and snarky comments of bad things to eat and their accompanying horrible photographs. Mind you, Lilek’s “Interior Desecrations:Hideous Homes from the horrible 70’s” also never fals to cheer me up, either. In fact, I would NOT be at all surprized to find out one or more of these photos IS from the Better Homes cookbook.

If the book was to sell on awful photography alone, it’d be out of print, so everyone must be using them from mom and grandma, and wear them out.

I only wish you could see inside this Child book. With the economy being what it is, I have a hard time justifying [...] plus shipping for a book I don’t know if I will be entertained reading, but I am curious as to ANY book that took 8 years to write.

Funny side note: Julia Child kept the Dan Ackroyd “Saturday Night Live” sketch impersonating her on a VCR (!) tape under her tv for anyone who asked about it; she said she found it funny with her being portrayed as a bit of a lush, and screeching out “save the liver!” while she’s bleeding to death.

The only problem with most cookbooks that I saw was they’re VERY into noodles, and other carbs. The fats, personally, don’t cause me any weight issues, b/c what’s the point of cooking if you have to use a disgusting substance such as margarine (which I knew sucked as a kid, even)? Or low-fat anything? But you have to use cakes, candies, and of course bread like using arsenic as a tonic.
Rating: 5 / 5