Big Little Recipes Cookbook, by Emma Laperruque
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Ten Speed Press
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It’s loaded with chocolate and rosemary—but no butter.
Today: Tom takes a long, hard look at his stack of cookbooks. I used to read a lot of cookbooks. Not in the literary sense; no, I simply read them for the recipes and then tossed them back onto the stack. I feel guilty about this past -- whenever I read a novel I usually skip all the preliminary stuff too. No preface, no foreword, no nothing. I go right to chapter one, or in the case of a cookbook, the first recipe. When one of the first novels I remember reading gave away the story in the first few pages of the foreword, I distinctly remember thinking, "I won't do that again." So it has become habit to just skip to chapter one.
