A note on Amy Sedaris' book I Like You. It is definitely funny but there is much more to it than the humor. I think it is a genuinely good, interesting cookbook/entertaining manual. The huge corporate bookstore I work for insists on shelving it in the humor section with books that have pictures of cats doing funny things and books collecting all the Dilbert comic strips. I love those books just as much but I think it is a disservice to the customers and to Amy Sedaris to have her book pigeonholed. There are plenty of cookbook collectors who are missing out and probably just as many humor nerds who just think her book is a joke.
Also, a kid I work with recently organized a "Cake Day" because everyone I work with loves cake. I brought a Nigella Lawson's Mother in Law Madeira Cake. It is my favorite "adult" dessert. A lemon cake with no icing just a hard sugary crust. I always feel very grown-up eating it. One of the older women who really seems to have her life together (because she always looks put together and has a husband who really pays the bills so she can just have a sort of hobby job) said it was very good. Embarrassingly, hers was the only opinion I wanted to hear. I hope I get over this wanting to be taken care of phase because I never used to want to be a woman whose husband paid the bills while I just cooked and indulged myself in hobbies. Honestly, I don't know anything about her life or their set-up but it would be nice to not be panicked about money and the future.
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