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...screenplay, she is making the most of it. She is franchising a coast-to-coast chain of Alice's Restaurants; the first four (in Boston, New York, Nashville and Los Angeles) are scheduled to open this year. Money is already pouring in from her Alice's Restaurant Cookbook (Random House; $5.95), which has a first printing of 40,000 copies...
...many people have rushed to publish the intimate memoirs of their years living with families of apes, lions and gorillas that Africa resembles Washington after a change of Administration. Practically the only volume of the sort still unpublished is a combined gorilla cookbook and grooming and marriage manual entitled The Way to an Ape's Heart...
...housewife, it's a soul cookbook...
Capon moves with ease from the mundane to the divine, and back again. He can write about food with lip-smacking enthusiasm; at the same time, he soars far above standard cookbook prosody. His loving description of how to peel and cut an onion, for example, is a poetically existential commentary on being and creation: "Reflect how little smell there is to a whole onion-how it is the humors and sauces of being that give the world flavor, how all life came from the sea, and how, without water, nothing can hold a soul...
...shown uncut, and moviegoers can confirm all the rumors for themselves. They are true. The chances are, however, that viewers who expect a titillating kind of 1,001 Scandinavian Nights will be disappointed. For all its well-publicized explicitness, Yellow is not much more erotic than the Fannie Farmer cookbook...