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Summary: Entertaining ,Not To Be Taken as Fact !
Review: 10/24/03 The book is entertaining with much levity since it comes across absurd(e,g recipe for Green Leaf Salad: Boston lettuce,red oak leaf lettuce,Newman's Own Salad Dressing)...or.. "Mary's Knees" :orange juice,lemon juice,lime juice,lemon vodka(Absolut Citron),Grand Marnier liquer).The book does not come across "as believable",based on books and other mediums(TV,Magazines) for biographies and autobiographies which have exposed the "life styles" of the "low keyed" bluebloods(The Paparazzi have shown their radicals such as the Spencer Family(Princess Diana),Kelly Family (Princess Grace).The rich's conservatism with their cash have made them able to be philanthropists and "powers behind the throne" of most politicans(who do take them seriously!)..The products mentioned (in the many foods not made from scratch e.g. for "Barn Parties:"Spring Chicken Potpies( ingredients incuded 4 cans of chunk white chicken(5-oz ea.)..4 cans creamy potato soup(10 oz ea.)...6 pkg. of pie crust mix (10 oz. ea)) as well as the events,categorized by season(e.g. Winter:Debutante Ball Cocktails(Pg 90) appear to show a faction not "atypical" of the sterotypes which have been depicted.(Possibly because the book shows "only leisure time"(before graduation from school,at lunches,brunches,showers,weddings,egg hunts,fox hunts);not inside the corporate board rooms or an actual easedropping of the "cigar guys" in their private clubs..
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Summary: Entertaining ,Not To Be Taken as Fact !
Review: 10/24/03 The book is entertaining with much levity since it comes across absurd(e,g recipe for Green Leaf Salad: Boston lettuce,red oak leaf lettuce,Newman's Own Salad Dressing)...or.. "Mary's Knees" :orange juice,lemon juice,lime juice,lemon vodka(Absolut Citron),Grand Marnier liquer).The book does not come across "as believable",based on books and other mediums(TV,Magazines) for biographies and autobiographies which have exposed the "life styles" of the "low keyed" bluebloods(The Paparazzi have shown their radicals such as the Spencer Family(Princess Diana),Kelly Family (Princess Grace).The rich's conservatism with their cash have made them able to be philanthropists and "powers behind the throne" of most politicans(who do take them seriously!)..The products mentioned (in the many foods not made from scratch e.g. for "Barn Parties:"Spring Chicken Potpies( ingredients incuded 4 cans of chunk white chicken(5-oz ea.)..4 cans creamy potato soup(10 oz ea.)...6 pkg. of pie crust mix (10 oz. ea)) as well as the events,categorized by season(e.g. Winter:Debutante Ball Cocktails(Pg 90) appear to show a faction not "atypical" of the sterotypes which have been depicted.(Possibly because the book shows "only leisure time"(before graduation from school,at lunches,brunches,showers,weddings,egg hunts,fox hunts);not inside the corporate board rooms or an actual easedropping of the "cigar guys" in their private clubs..
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Summary: Right into the time capsule for future WASPs
Review: Alexandra Wentworth isn't such a WASP that she'll say no to marrying for love (specifically, marrying former Clinton chief of staff George Stephanopoulos in 2001), but she's a WASP enough to have come up with a recipe collection that not only has pretty good food, but features the unmistakable ring of authenticity as well. Listen to these tidbits:"Every WASP must have a picnic basket that's at least sixty years old. If you don't have one, buy a new basket and bury it in the ground for a year." "WASPs relish an excuse to get bedecked from head to toe in Ralph Lauren wear--khaki jodhpurs (the classy answer to Spandex), tweed jackets, floral scarves, and burgundy calfskin gloves." "These elegant debutantes, in their Bergdorf white gowns and long white gloves, are presented by their fathers. After the brief ceremony, they are toasted as the paragons of fine breeding, good taste, and decorum. They then spend the rest of the evening getting drunk, smoking cigarettes, and giving new meaning to the term 'fine breeding.' " The recipes work, mostly because they're simple. Some have great names--Nummies, for one (dried apricots filled with Boursin), or Our Family's Eggnog. For the most part, though, look at this less as an honest-to-goodness culinary venture and more as a time capsule of WASPhood in a time when WASPs are no longer commemorated, lauded, made fun of and displayed as they were in John Cheever's heyday.
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Summary: Love this food
Review: Alexandra Wentworth should receive the Nobelprice for collecting these recipies. Also the comments were great fun to read.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: I like this book. She introduced me into one of the least known and underappreaciated cuisine. We may have the Italian, Mexican, Chinese, and French cooking, but Ms. Wentworth shows us the simplicity of WASP cuisine. It's neither showy nor terribly sophisticated, but it's cuisine nevertheless.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: I like this book. She introduced me into one of the least known and underappreaciated cuisine. We may have the Italian, Mexican, Chinese, and French cooking, but Ms. Wentworth shows us the simplicity of WASP cuisine. It's neither showy nor terribly sophisticated, but it's cuisine nevertheless.
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Summary: One of the best gifts I've ever received
Review: I received this gift as a shower gift this summer before mywedding. Everyone was reading it aloud. It made my shower. I highlyrecommend running to your nearest bookstore and buying a few. It's fabulous!
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Summary: A fantastik gift and great fun to read!
Review: This book is an ageless treasure. A wonderful gift for any ocassion. Especially, wedding season! A great shower gift! I loved it!
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Summary: a laugh on every page
Review: This book made me laugh until I cried. Clearly the author has "been there." Forget about the recipes; it's the commentary that matters. I particularly liked the cookies sent to the child at boarding school with "love from Mummy" written in the cook's handwriting.
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Summary: a laugh on every page
Review: This book made me laugh until I cried. Clearly the author has "been there." Forget about the recipes; it's the commentary that matters. I particularly liked the cookies sent to the child at boarding school with "love from Mummy" written in the cook's handwriting.
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