If you are tired, or frustrated, or don't feel like cooking, please read this book!

I haven't finished the book yet, so I'll have to update my review when I do, but I am really enjoying it.  It's not the recipes (there are few, and they are simple) but the inspiration that I get from reading this. Many cookbooks have interesting recipes and beautiful photos, which you read and then put down and go back to watching tv or whatever you were doing before you picked it up, but this book makes me want to run straight to the kitchen. Tamar Adler's writing style is genuinely clever and funny.  Nestled in between quirky and witty quips are extremely useful and applicable tips.  She doesn't talk to you the way celebrity chefs do, she tells you straight that something is going to take a long time, or that it's not going to be easy, but it's going to be worth it.  One of the best tips that she gives is to cook your vegetables when you bring them home from the store or the market - easier said than done, but not only does she tell you to do it, she tells you exactly what to do with it - roast, blanch, whatever. She admits that she has days that this process is tedious and takes forever and she gets interrupted and frustrated just like you would. The whole book is extremely relatable (though I can't say I identified with the chapter...