I was half-way reading through Michael Bauer's "The Secrets of Success Cookbook"
when it struck me that I wanted to cook almost every recipe in this book and this is a rare occurrence even when I deem a cookbook to be excellent. Bauer, a San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic, has compiled a number of original recipes which, in his opinion, represented the best San Francisco in the year 2000 had to offer. In case you wonder, I was reading a 10 year-old book on San Francisco's best restaur...

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