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Dear Emily, I too read cookbooks for comfort and personal enrichment- I feel more like a person when I enter the consciousness of the cookbook author. I even enjoy the blurbs of Sam Sifton and the other food writers at the Times and the comments from fellow cooks as well.

Please do write a cook book I can hug at night. Your columns are so humane. I’m sure a book you wrote would be too. Lisa

I just looked up the definition of humane

Showing compassion or benevolence but also having a civilizing effect.

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I love that you love the Dinah Shore Cookbook! Did you know that she also wrote Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah and The Dinah Shore American Kitchen? Those books kept me sane when my husband was undergoing cancer treatment when he was 25. I would sit in a recliner with my cat Muffin, eating Cheetoes and reading. Pure comfort.

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