About How to be a BAD cook by Ruth Finnegan:
This book is not for those who think they’re already-good cooks, or chefs, or those who adore glossy cookery books, but for self-proclaimed “bad cooks” who are actually pretty good but don’t want to be tied down by time-consuming, pretentious, “recipes”. Enjoy its humour and laugh-out-loud cartoons, of course, but also, more serious, lead into amazing, true, anthropological information about the importance of the rituals of food and cooking, and about how the foods we unthinkingly consume today were so ingeniously developed by our far far off early ancestors in far-flung parts of the world. When we cook and eat we are carrying on a great tradition which could not live on without our cooking, good or bad, today. So think of that when you’re hovering over your saucepans – just one pan , and not for long if you’ve read this book – and be proud: you are part of the great history of humankind You’ll agree with the ‘How to be a bad cook’ reviews : “it’s a delight”.
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Author Bio:
Emeritus Professor Ruth Finnegan OBE is an internationally recognised anthropologist with a string of honours to her name: Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Fellow of the British Academy and, to her special pride, an elected Fellow of the American Folklore Society. Born and raised in Ireland (Derry and Donegal) she loves nature, music, and the sea, attends an economical church in the city of Milton Keynes, and lives in Shenley Wood village looking out over beautiful trees where she walks in joy. A multi-award author for her fiction, non-fiction and screen writing, she is pleased with the reception of her most recent, prize-winning, academic book, the wide-ranging “ Communicating, the multiple modes of human communication” and looking forward to completing – after a few more years’ work – a largely autobiographical memoir on “The shared mind” , linking her experience to the most recent research in this increasingly recognised and intensely important topic of interest.
José Sépi who provides the humorous cartoons in “How to be a bad cook” is a distinguished artist from the Argentine