Fwd: What can a celebrity offer a cookbook reader?

Celebrity cookbooks are curious beasts, brand extensions of public figures we often do not associate with eating. Sometimes, the results are charming and unexpected: see, for example, titles from Snoop Dogg, Sophia Loren, Dolly Parton, and Valerie Bertinelli. Sometimes, they aren’t. Regardless, all celebrity cookbooks telegraph the same underlying,... See more