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That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.

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Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; occasionally, we smear their pages together with vibrant green glazes or crimson compotes, in order to delude ourselves, and any passing browsers, that we are practicing cooks; but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed.

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There is more suspense, more dramatic torque, in one page of [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's heart-racked ruminations onthe Christian consciencethaninall Demi Moore's woodland gallops and horizontal barn dancing.

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Anthony Lane

Anthony Lane

Born: 1962 (age 63)
Bio: Anthony Lane is a British journalist, currently a film critic for The New Yorker magazine.
Known for:
  1. Nobody's Perfect (2002)
  2. Calamity Corner (2004)
  3. Maritime Kent (2000)
  4. Guiding Lights (2001)

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