Why We Buy And Read Cookbooks We’ll Never Actually Cook From

Adam Gopnik: “Vicarious pleasure? More like deferred frustration. Anyone who cooks knows that it is in following recipes that one first learns the anticlimax of the actual, the perpetual disappointment of the thing achieved. … [If] the first thing a cadet cook learns is that words can become tastes, the second is that a space exists between what the rules promise and what the cook gets.”