Ok. I know that its completely crazy to pay $125 for a book. But LOOK at this one. I found it over the bliss blog and I immediately wanted it.

It has a hand embroidered cover (Hence, the price.) It would look lovely in my kitchen.

Of course I immediately wanted to check out some of Maggie Beer's recipes. Luckily for me, she has her own show in Australia and her recipes are fairly easy to find - although some of the ingredients I've never heard of - Like Verjuice.

I think the first recipe of hers I'll try is Strozzapreti with Rapini. And I'll watch the book closely on Amazon... for that price to drop low enough to make it worth it.