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Wild Women in the Kitchen: 101 Rambunctious Recipes & 99 Tasty Tales

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This is the most FUN cookbook I've ever read: the recipes are real--easy-to-do and delicious; the snippets about renowned women's lives and the recipe dedications to them are entertaining, intelligent and sly. I've never before encountered a cookbook that I couldn't put down 'til I'd finished reading it! And...I've always KNOWN that I'm right--champagne and chocolate cream pie DO go together!!

I am NOT a cook but this amusing book provides an entertaining daydream. Anyone with this sense of humour gets my vote- and I read the book from cover to cover for its short witty anecdotes about famous women. Without cooking anything (yet) it was great fun and I have given it as a present to many people -just for the descriptions. "My Kingdom for a Pizza" "Cleopatras Pearls" "For whom the Chips Toll " etc "Eleanor's Eggs" (Roosevelt) could perhaps do with a witty frozen storage section for our modern misses- but cannibalism isn't included in the book- as yet! I wait for the next edition with baited breath .

I sent this book to my mother-in-law, stepmom, and got one myself. We all have had a great time reading the cookbook, and if you ever need a recipe for "pot brownies", there is one in there! I nearly died laughing when I saw that. I'm guessing that's how the moms of old kept from going crazy being at home all day with all those kids! A fun book for women who cook, and those who don't!

Fun book and interesting stories. The recipes are so-so. I tried to make a few things and they are just ok.