This is a tough book. On one hand, I agree with almost - ALMOST - everything it has to say, but on the other, if it had been any part of my early learning experience, I think I might never have started cooking because it is apparently next to impossible to do correctly. Make no mistake, as far as John and Karen Hess are concerned, there is absolutely a correct and an incorrect way to cook. The jacket reviews label it a jeremiad, diatribe and a philippic on American cooking. It...