"Virginia Tadrzynski" > wrote in message
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>I have taken to reading (and commenting on) various cooking blogs. Chatty
>Cathy, this might be a survey for you. Some of which I find very
>frustrating. I found one via a link from a very good blog, called Cooking
>With Anne, and it was a big disappointment. The title was Cookbook Junkie,
>and the little hairs on the back of my neck stood up........ah, I says to
>myself, just like Chris Dabney, there are more such addicted souls like she
>and I who find the need to purchase and own a cookbook to be slightly
>overwhelming and somehow euphoric in nature. What do I get, some schlub
>who says 'I own cookbooks and here are some of the recipes I just copied
>directly out of the book"...no explanation, no mention of HOW MANY (beotch
>probably owns 10 and thinks herself a grand master) and definitely not how
>she is motivated. Feh, I say. Are there other's out there who are
>disappointed in similar fashion?
>
> Now to the second musing: A week or so ago, a little old lady came home
> to find herself being burgled. She picked up a cooking pot and waffled
> the kid with it, knocking him down, when he tried to get up, she waffled
> him again (don't F with little old ladies with a a major **** off and
> cookware, you will not win). The cops came, took the kids away and the
> local television station came to interview her. She showed her 'swing'
> and lo and behold, it was an Emerilware pot she laid him out with. My
> question is this: Should Emeril capitalize on this......not only good for
> cooking but wacking the local hoodlums as well? Think of the free press
> this gave him.......your thoughts.
>

Puts the emphasis on "BAM"

Debbie