Here’s a book recommendation from National Public Radio. Beat This! by Ann Hodgman happens to be a cookbook, but it’s also a humor book, a self-help book and a kind of bible.

From NPR –

It is a happy day when I am asked to publicly recommend a book. It is also a dilemma. When I consider all the books I have loved and depended upon and profited from, how can I pick just one?

It is tempting, in a situation like this, to narrow one’s choice to a classic or some political tome, so that one’s audience might be suitably impressed. It is also tempting to place under the spotlight an underappreciated lyrical novel.

In the end, I have decided to come clean about the book I have probably recommended more often than any other.

I gotta try the buttercrunch recipe. That’s the one to rule the world with.

Listen to the NPR story or read the text and the recipe for White Chocolate-Raspberry Pie.