So full of its own self-reverential cleverness that I think it's turned me off soup forever. ( )

Clever and entertaining. Await the second course. ( )

This is a delightful collection of recipes with stories written in the style of famous authors. The directions for the recipes are contained in the stories and all sound tasty and ate ertainly humorous and dead on. I can't wait to try Garcia Marquez's cow au vin or Chaucer's onion tart. ( )

It's a book of recipes, each written in the style of a famous author, with a page of artwork in a different style included. So the title recipe is for quick miso soup written in the style of Kafka and featuring a Warhol-esque painting of a soup can with Kafka's face on the label. There's a coq au vin recipe inside a story of a priest watching his cook prepare the last meal for a man about to be executed, a la Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and a very good parody of The Caretaker by Pinter, with the young man forcing the older man to try an Italian version of cheese on toast. There are several recipes I'd like to try. ( )

An absolute joy, and I'm planning to actually make the recipes, perhaps even dress in the style of the author to eat it, no just kidding but this is great. It will definitely prompt me to broaden my literary education and make sure I've read at least one of each author he parodies. The disappointing thing is the dust jacket says Mark Crick is a "photographer", mmm, how did that qualify him to write such an intelligent book? ( )