You all have too much time on your hands if you are having to dig for a topic to critique!! I mean, get a life!! I have 2 children, one girl and one boy. My daughter will eat any and all veggies I put in front of her except for Green Bell Pepper and Onions. Which is to be expected! My son on the other hand, will not touch Green Beans. If I have to puree them and put them in his Spaghetti then so-be-it. Want to talk about parents lying or deceiving their children? Then stop bringing up Santa Claus!!!!! IF I were to get this book and make the recipes, then after my children ate the food, I would tell them what is in it and then see if they would try the vegetable cooked or raw. To each his or her own!!! Right? I just don't have the time to set aside each week to puree every vegetable there is in the market. If I had the Millions the Seinfeld's have then I would most DEFINITELY be using this book to bake and cook. I mean, COME ON! Give it a rest people and quit trying to nitpick at every little insigificant matter in the world! Right now we have Congress trying to see how much money each Bill they pass will get, yet, they will not approve of giving more money to our Troops! Get your priorities straight, you morons!!

Ummm...Army Wife? For someone who's repeatedly telling everyone else to "get a life," you're spending an awful lot of time on this board responding to other people's posts and telling everyone else what they should be thinking and doing. You don't seem to think Ms. Sheraton should have a forum to air her opinions (which are actually a salient and thoughtful critique in which she expresses, yes, HER point of view, to which she's actually entitled) but you seem to have nothing better to do than to spend precious time ranting at her and everyone else who might understand or agree with her perspective. Don't you have green beans to puree? Or a horrifying unjust and expensive (both in lives and in dollars) war to keep promoting? I certainly don't mind hearing your perspective, and I think you have every right to express it -- but honestly, once was enough. Like you're so fond of saying, get a life.

Democracy, that thing that our troops are supposedly fighting to preserve, is all about everyone having their own opinion, AND the right to express it publicly. Stop trying to shut other people down.

As stated by someone on the board....People in glass houses....hmmm......This is the FIRST time I have ever been on the board and it was because of this book review. I have a life and I don't see the point of starting drama online the way you do. Look who doesn't have a life. I ended up looking online late last night because I was taking a break from my classes. I wanted to read something other than Psychology and Composition. You seem to want to feel free to express your opinion so before you try shutting someone else down, think twice about what you have to say. We ALL have our own opinions!! Maybe you should make a profession of wiping people's butt's, because it seems we can make a career out of anything these days. If people don't like a book then they don't have to buy it. We really don't need to have critique's reviewing books for us. If you have such a wonderful life, then I suggest you get back to it and stay off the boards or keep your opinions to yourself if you can't take someone expressing theirs.

Armywife - I'm just going to come out and say what I suspect a number of people are thinking. You're an idiot. Your thought process - or lack thereof is unbelievably simplisitic - bordering on the childish. I normally don't spend much time on the boards and then normally never respond to people like you. Why? Because I get roped into inane dialgoues like this one (so shame on me). You seem to lack any insight into yourself and how intelligent adults should communicate, evaluate and have intelligent discourse. In your self-justifying world you shout down what you don't like and then act surprised when people react badly. Well, grow up, go back to your books and try and be an adult. And while were on the subject of your thinking we don't need book critics....how about this one - we don't need critics of the book critics like you!!

Now please - you're dismissed - go away.

Looks who is being childish!! Yes, Shame On YOU!! hahaha Yes you are an idiot and need to get over yourself just like Mimi should. You feel you are all high and mighty and above the rest of us and that will all be found out the day the Lord comes back. You will be put in your place someday so I am not worried about you and dismissed you a long time ago but you keep on going. And you "call" yourself an adult????

Oh dear. I can see where this is going. You're an emotional train-wreck aren't you honey? I never said anything to imply being above anyone - you did - which leads me to believe that all this rather sad babbling on your part is an attempt to mask some deep inferority complex you've had since what - childhood - in that lonely trailer park you grew up in? Why else would you focus on people getting over themselves - you're still trying to find an identity that lifts you above your awful limitations.

Okay -so now that I know I'm dealing with a borderline incompetent I'll stop. Stamp your little feet if you want to - respond if you want to but I won't be getting back to you. I'll just hope you can find some help or the right med. Buh-bye now!

You were the perfect guinea pig for my Psychology assignment. You fell perfectly for everything I said. It's kind of funny how the human mind works, huh? I am not trashy like you and just because you grew up in a trailor park does not mean everyone else in the world did. There are people who live in houses! You seem to THINK you know everything and it's so funny how you are way off you psychic abilities.

Bilco, I know the pain is as great as the pleasure -- but thanks for keeping the so-called "dialogue" going long enough to provide me with a few more laughs. Army Wife's brilliant argumentative strategy of reiterating to criticism of her by saying "I'm not, but that's what you are" would make me think that this is actually a fifth-grader masquerading as an adult. However, no fifth-grader in their right mind would support Seinfeld's nefarious hidden vegetable scheme, instead of coming in their own time to appreciate and enjoy various kinds of vegetables. Therefore, I must sadly conclude that Army Wife is actually an adult, hard as it may be to believe if one takes into account her syntax, writing style, grammar (or lack thereof) as well as the complete speciousness of her arguments. As I said at the beginning, the pain of this is as great -- or actually, far outweighs -- the pleasure. I spend too much of my time dealing with "adults" who are at this particular stage of development to spend my leisure time doing the same, so I think I'll do as Army Wife suggests, get off this board, and "get a life."

You are another person that I can use with my assignment in Psychology. Thanks!! Kohlberg and Piaget should have done studies on you and the other idiot.

I was actually supposed to go into a chat room but, at the last minute chose to try it here where we have a right to voice our opinions of an article. Instead, some people felt they were insignificant or jealous of a person they do not even know. So what is the first thing they resort to? Critism! I have posted a few times asking about what the recipes taste like and all you can do is TRY to put someone else down? Shows how little self-esteem you have or you are just plain ugly. It makes me wonder if you are the type of person that stays locked in the house with the shades closed ordering everything online and never leave your house.

My assignment is going to bring me an A+ because I have copied and pasted all of your response after mine.

I can't help but wonder what you all are afraid of, you can't handle someone else's opinion that you have to put it down. Maybe it's because I explained something going on in your life you are afraid to admit or deal with. It's kind of funny how many people from other countries say America is great and everyone is so nice. Well, as long as the two babling idiots here don't ever leave their houses, I think we will continue to be a "Great Country".

Armywife, please give it a rest. You are making the rest of us military wives look bad. I guess I fell into your trap as well.

Tabbycat, don't worry. Most of us have great respect for the military and their families, and wouldn't judge them just because one person stoops to calling everyone "morons" when they don't agree with her. Of course, if this tactic gets ArmyWife an A+ on her "psychology" assignment at her institution of higher learning (so to speak), who are we to grudge her that little pyrrhic victory? It does, however, certainly call into question the level of pedagogy at whatever institution she attends. Be that as it may, we can comfort ourselves by considering the following: if indeed she does print these threads verbatim, imagine what a relief it will be for both her "Composition" AND her "Psychology" professors to read something other than merely her own puerile and vitriolic prose. No wonder they'll give her an A+.

Oh, and by the way, Army Wife -- it really doesn't help your cause to name-call when people aren't in agreement with you. You repeatedly call other people "babling (only one of your many, many spelling, syntactical and grammatical errors, by the way) idiots," say that they are "jealous" (of what?), "should make a profession of wiping other people's butts" or that they must be "ugly" and "stay in their houses all the time," among all the other abusive things you've spewed in your 20(!) posts in response to this article. Honestly, this will never get you very far, either with us down here on earth, or your "professors" or, as you would say, "when our Lord comes back."

I hope I haven't offended you, and I'm quite honestly not "name-calling" here, in case you interpret my response that way. It's just that as a professor of both composition and literature at an extremely reputable university, I do think that someone at your school ought to occasionally help you with your lack of skills in rhetoric and rational argumentation, as well as your dreadful lack of a command of the conventions of written English.

You, you are right, WordofMouth. I can't believe I got so irritated at someone who didn't deserve any emotion whatsoever. If she needs to use these posts to achieve her A+ in psych, one tends to wonder if maybe she is attending a community college.

I saw your rotten response to Armywife, suggesting she somehow has to do with "promoting" the war in Iraq. You little shit. Have you any idea the sacrifices our military and their families endure, even during peacetime, let alone during wartime?

If she's "promoting" the war, perhaps it has to do with the idea that she hopes her husband is in harm's way for something meaningful. You drag war and politics into a discussion about baby food? You're a creep.

I must say, Thank You Early Bird! Really, from the bottom of my heart!

This whole discussion has gotten out of hand and all towards me because of MY post. You should some of the other posts on here that are far worse than mine.

I made a few comments about "you people have too much time on your hands" and everyone is taking it personal, if you read it again, it is towards the critics, editors and publishers of this article.

The only thing I was saying about the war was, we have better topics to think about than an article. Then, I get all this attention because I have an opinion just as everyone else does on this board.

I am still waiting for an answer about how the brownies taste though??? Anyone know?

I want to argue with the girl who capitalizes vegetables! First, thank you for dragging your husband's service affiliation into the conversation. It even got someone to drag out the dreaded "in harm's way". You're embarrassing military members. At least this one.

Bragging about taking undergrad classes, though... is this for real? I didn't know this was a boastable accomplishment. I pray that you will stick with it. If you've read this far, listen to this advice - don't tell people your level of education when you are arguing with them. At least not until you're at the post-graduate level. Ok?

Ok, I just wanted to make sure this kept rolling.