The Meaning of Cooking Book

I did not make it through all the essays here, because I felt like they all started to sound the same. I say that of many essay collections or short story collections, and neither format is usually designed to be read cover-to-cover. That being said, I do like Trillin, and enjoy his columns in the New Yorker. He's charming, funny. I'd like to be seated next to him at any number of dinners. His essays make me chuckle, and capture a slice of life when American food culture suddenly went beyond regional specialties or meat-and-potatoes. Before "food writing" was a genre, Trillin wrote about food, and more importantly, how food seemed to be such a joyful bond between him and his wife Alice. It's so joyful it almost feels quaint, but it also makes me remember why I like a lot of food writing in the first place. (Just, like many dishes, not all at once.)