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In the cookbook world, and the magazine and online worlds for that matter, there’s tremendous pressure to put out easy and easier and easiest recipes when the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of people still aren’t cooking them. When discussing her new book Oaxaca al Gusto with NPR, Diana Kennedy told it like it is. “They’re going to say, ‘Oh there are a lot of wild recipes that nobody can do in this book,” she says. “There are a lot of recipes you can do. And I want to say, ‘How many recipes do you do in any cookbook? I swear you don’t do half of them.’” What a dame, indeed.