Everybody is a sunshine

So I got this fancypants cookbook from work the other day. I knew straight off what I was getting--every other word ends in -ouille or -accia or -floccinonfaciotouille or whatever, and frankly I'm a little put off about attempting to make anything I can't actually pronounce, but it's the Union Square Cafe cookbook (which I walked past every day when I was visiting Laura Berger in New York) so I figured oh heck. Worst case scenario: it just sits haughtily among my other cookbooks lookin' snooty and if anybody points at it and goes "ooh, what about some of those" I can just wave my hand and respond with a flippant "oh those?" as if to imply that I'm a bit advanced for that sort of thing, how quaint of you to suggest it.

I'm pretty sure I can handle that sort of worst case scenario.