Cookbooks are a lot like Dungeons & Dragons and other role-playing games. They contain seemingly rigid rules that, in practice, require a certain amount of adaptation for your own tastes.
In honor of D&D 4.0's release, what if cooking discussion boards talked about cookbooks the way gamers talk about gaming rules?
Posted: 12:15 a.m. by LordOrcus I'm so mad that there's a new edition of The Better Joy Cookbook out. Thanks for making my old copy obsolete, you greedy hacks! For five years now, my friends have been coming over for my eggplant Parmesan, and now I'm never going to be able serve it again unless I shell out 35 bucks for the latest version.
RTWT. Sheer brilliance.
(via Kate)
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I'm so glad that they combined the rules for sauteing and stir-frying! I hated having to flip back and forth looking for the relevant section.
I did notice with some dismay that eggplants have been removed from this edition. They made for great random encounters.
Dude, it so totally sucks that they combined sauteeing and stir-frying. Those are so different tasks, as anyone who's read James Beard knows. It's all just part of the dumbing down of cooking. Might as well go online and play an MMO like City of Gyros.
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