librarianelizabeth 's review for:

The Art of Eating in: How I Learned to Stop Spending and Love the Stove by Cathy Erway

0.75

funny informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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I should know better than to read stunt nonfiction. This was, at least, a fun hate-read! I wanted to yell at the sheer weight of unexamined privilege, the Brooklyn neighborhood, the part time job, the food blog. I don't fault the central stunt itself, having eschewed restaurants for the duration of the pandemic. I just... the sheer number of Lady Stunt Blog Book Deal tropes this checks off made me positively surly. And I don't like to cook nearly as much, so the fussy gourmet recipes ticked me off. Also, I think she's lying about her grocery spending.