> I can't remember the name of the French chef who made that critique of
> Waters, but there's a truth in its nastiness. I got a Chez Panisse cookbook
> years ago and was floored by the 10 or 15 pages on lettuces. They were all
> of a kind that I couldn't get on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, one of
> the best neighborhoods for retail food shopping in the USA. If I couldn't
> get 'em, who could? Only people who grew them in their Berkeley backyards, I
> guess.
That is one annoying facet of some of those cookbooks: they all think you're in the Bay area. Tell me something interesting to do with a turnip, please.
-- Andy