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The Art of Escapism Cooking
The Art of Escapism Cooking: A Survival Story, with Intensely Good Flavors | Mandy Lee
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In this inventive and intensely personal cookbook, the blogger behind the award-winning ladyandpups.com reveals how she cooked her way out of an untenable living situation, with more than eighty delicious Asian-inspired dishes with (…more)
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Tamra
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This is a really beautiful & mouthwatering book. Mandy is very creative blending flavors & textures of cuisines. What I wouldn‘t give to eat what she cooks!! I will be checking out her blog.

But most of the recipes qualify as weekend projects, at least in my life. Even then anymore I don‘t have a day to devote to the kitchen. (I wish!) So, this is a qualified pick.

MicheleinPhilly That looks incredible! 🤤 6y
Tamra @MicheleinPhilly I know, right?! 6y
Aimeesue Guess it depends on how long you need to escape for! ? "Sorry, can't join you. My weekend's booked for cooking." Doesn't sound half bad actually. 6y
Tamra @Aimeesue totally! I used to pre-kids. 😜 6y
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unabridgedchick
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Mandy Lee's cookbook might have mouthwatering pictures and a strong sense of her acerbic personality, but it's also a travel memoir, a biography, a Dear John; or, as the subtitle succinctly summarizes: a survival story.This cookbook is unforgettable, intimidating, and so real. It's really set the bar for future cookbooks, honestly: I want more cookbooks that are honest about the world we're in and the way food is part of that.

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Look, the only thing I'd like to cook at seven in the morning -- as I lie in bed with residual resentments from the day before and looming despair about the day ahead --is the people who say they love cooking breakfast. Who are these people? I imagine their breakfasts taste like denial buttered up with overcompensating enthusiasm.

Suet624 😂😂😂 yup. 6y
Tamra 👍🏾👍🏾 6y
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KarenUK
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This is as much a cookbook to curl up in bed with, as it is to cook from. Gorgeous photos, beautifully honest memoir sections with a dose of dark humor, and the kind of recipes you give up a whole day to. They are often real projects, with many homemade components, that will fill your home with amazing aromas, and give so much comfort and joy, in both preparing and eating. I wish I had more time to dedicate to this kind of cooking.... #oneday 😍

Cinfhen Looks fantastic 💓 6y
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DebinHawaii
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This gorgeous cookbook won‘t be an everyday one for me—the recipes are complicated & some of the steps have steps but I‘ll pull it out for inspiration & components of recipes & for the Miso-Brown Butter Hollandaise Sauce which is the perfect umami combination of flavors for these poached eggs on toast.😋Stunning photos, vivid writing & inventive recipes. You can see my review & a link to the sauce recipe👇🏻for my book tour review stop. #cookbook

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