I got this cookbook at a girlie swap. I’m usually a sucker for cookbooks, food porn addict that I am. I don’t know if I am just feeling extra snarky, but this cookbook annoys me. There seems to be an underlying tone of smugness, a little too much about “our little family travels the world and eats gluten free and our baby loves artichokes and we’re gorgeous and leading a better life than you….” Perhaps I’m being unfair. After all, I’ve tolerated smugness in cookbooks before. I have both of Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbooks and some would say she’s the queen of smug. Her recipes are great though, so I can tolerate the superiority, even when she has photos like this:
Who’s that intense sniffing fruit?
There are only so many smug cookbooks one woman can endure, so I am saying good bye to this one, unfair or not.