Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover's Courtship, with Recipes, (Paperback)

from whitreidtan

More a food diary with recipes than a proper memoir, I was reading this as I was preparing Thanksgiving dinner. It gave me a chuckle to realize just how horrified Hesser would be to have to eat at my house, what with the frozen blocks of squash pried out of their boxes and thawed, the boxes of dr...

from carrieprice78

It's ironic that Hesser is a professional writer, because the quality of writing in this collection of essays is egregious. It is colloquial ('Mind you,..."), it is cloying, it is insipid and elitist. There is a difference between spoken language and written language that Hesser does not seem to ...

from candyschultz

I fell in love with Amanda Hesser and her writing several years ago when I read The Cook and The Gardener. That was a tale of her year in France cooking in the country with the cooperation (and sometimes vituperation) of the gardener on the estate. Cooking For Mr. Latte brings her back to Manhatt...

from candyschultz

I fell in love with Amanda Hesser and her writing several years ago when I read The Cook and The Gardener. That was a tale of her year in France cooking in the country with the cooperation (and sometimes vituperation) of the gardener on the estate. Cooking For Mr. Latte brings her back to Manhatt...