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Recipes and Rants
Workman Publishing
December 2010
On Sale: December 15, 2010
276 pages
ISBN: 0761155260
EAN: 9780761155263
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Introducing a very funny, slightly edgy, winning new kind of
cookbook Jessica Harper—that Jessica Harper, star of
Minority Report, Stardust Memories, Love and Death, Pennies
from Heaven, and more—is a working mother of two who faces
the same problems of every other woman who’s the designated
home cook: How do you feed a family of picky eaters when
you’re not crazy about being in the kitchen in the first
place? A natural-born storyteller and terrifically engaging
writer, she does what she’s done all her life—entertain
us—while at the same time offering 100 not just easy but
really easy-to-make, really tasty recipes. Her stories are filled with charming crabbiness—of cooking
early in the day for the two kids who eat only six things,
then later for the husband who eats only about eight things,
none of which share common ground with those first six; of
inviting her mother-in-law for dinner and handing her an
apron; of suffering HAS—Hostess Anxiety Syndrome—having the
book club over and picking The Good Earth because it matches
the neighborhood’s great new Chinese take-out, so no cooking
involved! She wants to give a Nobel Prize to the person who
invented bagged salad, and she recounts a wonderful story of
making homemade turkey pot pie for the very first time—its
crust tasted like rosemary-scented Play-Doh—to serve to
Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford. But crabby or not, she’s found a way to make it work, and
work brilliantly. The Crabby Cook is about how to change
your food-i-tude—no more garnish guilt, for example, and why
“sort of homemade” is just as good as homemade (ie, knowing
when to go all out with Pain-in-the-Ass Minestrone and when
to settle for the almost-as-tasty Lazy-Ass Minestrone). It’s
how to identify those Miracle Foods—the stuff that everyone
loves, like Gobble-It-Up Turkey Chili and Tony’s Rigatoni.
And even a whole survival guide—despite her HAS—to
entertaining, including drinks, Whore’s Doorves, Dip One and
Dip Two, and My Big Fat Greek Platter.
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