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I recently undertook the challenge on Goodreads to read Jane Eyre and watch the latest movie adaptation of the novel. This represented, for me, the closing of a circular saga involving Charlotte Bronte. But I will tell you right now, this story has a happy ending. I first read Jane Eyre in sixth grade, oddly enough, with my father. (We read books together before bed until I was midway through high school. To this day we generally read the same books and discuss them. This is something I highly value in my relationship with my dad.) I have since come to the belief that I was not ready for this book at this time. At twelve I just don't think that I had the emotional or psychological maturity to appreciate the depth of the book. Also, as an adolescent, I was consumed with ideas of romantic love and perfect, dreamy, fairytale couplings. Needless to say, I was horrified that both the heroes of Jane Eyre were described as unattractive. Who wanted to read a love story about boring, ...

This is not me. This is Giada de Laurentiis. I love the Food Network. Few things are as entertaining or educational to me as watching professionals cook deliciously complicated dishes and telling me that I am fully capable of doing the same. I have tried and failed on numerous occasions to reproduce some of the things I have seen on the Food Network, and I have also tried and succeeded. But at the end of the day, I am really a more amateur cook who likes to be able to whip something up in fifteen minutes on a weeknight. Mostly because I usually only have about fifteen minutes to cook dinner on a weeknight. And through the course of my adventures in cooking I have discovered that you can create edible meals on a daily basis if you just make sure that you have some key ingredients and apparatus in your kitchen. I swear, this is not going to be one of those lists where you don't know where to get the items or how to use them. This really is meant for the average cook. And just rem...