Oh Puleeeeze. Houston as America's Premier Restaurant City? What happened to New York and San Francisco? Even Las Vegas has better food than the Fat Capital of the US. This cookbook-lite embodies the worst transgression of all -- imagining that the world revolves around its city, and that somehow that matters to foodies. It's pretentious and silly. Besides we all know that nobody in Houston eats mesquite-roasted duck, unless they're trying to impress someone else at the table (usually from out of town). They eat at MacDonalds and hide the supersize when a normal-weight person walks by. Go back in the kitchen and check how many of those recipes REALLY start with cream of mushroom soup.