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"The How Not to Cookbook" by Aleksandra Mir This charming volume is not a cookbook, but a compilation of the 1,000 responses Sicily-based artist Aleksandra Mir got when she
elicited cooking disaster stories from people all over the world. Mir divided the un-tips into sections both obvious and unlikely:
"Drugs," "Gadgets," "Lasagna," "Orientalism," "Worms." It's a browser's heaven. The disparate contributors are now linked through
cultures and continents via admissions of stupidity, a splendid reminder that almost any semi-capable person who eats also cooks,
and every cook learns by making mistakes. To wit: my own brief entry in the book, involving beets and a blender. |