When I was 18, I went with my mom and dad to Europe. Mom planned the whole trip using Frommer’s Europe on $25 a Day book. It was a rather trying and gritty trip, seeing as we went as cheaply as possible. It wasn’t as fun a time as she later depicted it.

She also wrote a lengthy book about the trip and said it was a novel. But, it was just a journal of everything we did and ate and how much it cost. All she, the heroine, did was complain and find fault with everything. But she veiled her insults as humor.

Then she made the whole family read it. When she didn’t get raving reviews, she threw an absolute fit.

Yet, this new cookbook she’s writing is more mean spirited and self inflating. She’s writing it to rub in our faces that she’s great and we’re (her daughters) not. It goes deep...way deep.