Edible Brooklyn Has Put Out A *Possibly Obnoxious* Cookbook

Local online food mag Edible Brooklyn has published a cookbook. It contains "more than 100 recipes and stories from local readers, cooks, farmers, gardeners, picklers, brewers, egg cream makers and other food producers." The regular cost of the book is $18.95, but you can get nab it for $12.24 on both Amazon and B&N.

The first customer review that appears on Amazon gives the book three stars, but the author wasn't crazy about the book's "extremely obnoxious tone." Commenter Y Barysheva writes, "The introduction begins with "We have to admit to feeling a bit smug, living and eating in Brooklyn..." and goes on to describe Brooklyn as being riddled with CSAs and roof-top farms, overflowing with local, organic food and microbreweries. Seriously? Maybe if I was living in a $3000-a-month Carroll Gardens apartment, I would have a roof-top farm. This book is the epitome of the back-patting smugness transplants to Brooklyn exude when they spend $6 a bunch on organic kale grown on someone's roof."

Personally, I think the middle image on the book's cover looks like a Georgia O'Keefe, vagina-esque taco. Has anyone else checked this book out? Does it reek of cheeky hubris?