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In fairness, the majority of people probably didn't know who Julie Powell or Elizabeth Gilbert were before their books came out, but those relationship/culinary memoirs did pretty well…and neither of those authors had the prior television exposure that Finley had. It's no surprise if a publisher is hoping this approach will work again.

I won't be reading this book. Not because I'm put off by domestic arguments, but because I'm put off by a husband being against his wife having a career and the wife treating it as if it's her problem to solve by rededicating herself to the marriage and abandoning a tremendous job opportunity. I also realize that in these reactionary times, a book with any other message probably wouldn't have been published. But I'm an old man who still believes in the principles of the feminist movement, and I get the feeling this book would just make me too angry.

What can anyone say that hasn't already been said? You'll be in my thoughts.

The majority of posters here must know more about Japanese cuisine than I do...but surely tempura is by definition dipped in batter, not breaded in panko?

I can think of several noteworthy dining experiences on planes.

A flight back east, coming home from a family trip to Disneyland, was the first time I ever had a corned beef sandwich -- this was in 1971 so I won't bother recommending the airline -- and I still compare all subsequent corned beef sandwiches to that primal experience.

Virgin Atlantic was astonishingly good in the mid-Eighties. If they've kept up the quality level since then, I'm very happy to hear it.

Finally, the best airline meals I've ever had were on Air New Zealand. Highly recommended.

I've heard entirely different reasons for the Jewish embrace of Chinese cuisine. For one thing, far from Chinese food being so radically different from Jewish dietary practice, the ingredients Eastern European Jews found at Chinese restaurants would have been comfortingly familiar as what they knew in the old country -- soups, dumplings, chicken, et cetera. I'm doing that argument an injustice by paraphrasing it so crudely; there's a lot of scholarly writing on this topic.

(For that matter, there's some debate as to how all-important following kashrut would have been to those immigrants, and whether or not more recent Orthodox and conservative movements may have made those rules more important than they used to be.)

But really, the major thing was that if Jewish immigrants went into an American restaurant, they would be recognized and treated as Jewish immigrants…whereas if they went to a Chinese restaurant, they were regular customers like any others and treated with the same respect as any other paying diner. The importance of this to a victim of discrimination cannot be overstated. I'm sure this is by far the biggest factor in the Jewish/Chinese dining tradition.

Wonder if they've got something special planned five years from now, when it'll be 3.14.15...

Slaw dogs for me -- and it's a combination I never tried until adulthood, so nostalgia plays no part in this preference. For hitting that childhood taste memory like a Proustian madeleine , it's a Nathan's with mustard or a Sabrett with onions.

It must be awesome -- the people on the package are weeping with joy!

I'm guessing the "Dinner Impossible" game for the DS Lite will be going for cheap now...