My qualm with cook books (and menus, too!)

Some cookbooks do this, but most don't. If you want make the food sound more appetizing, include pictures! I'm a visual person. I want to see what I'm cooking, or ordering. I think there should just be a bunch of pictures, labeled with what each item is. Then you can flip a few pages and look up the recipe for that particular item. This way you can be a little prejudiced by the pretty pictures of the yummy foods. (I discriminate, not going to lie to you. If it doesn't look pretty or good, I will not eat it. This is why I need my pictures.)

Also, I'm somewhat of a perfectionist. Not ridiculous or anything, I mean... look at my bedroom if you're wondering. But when I get a manicure or something, I will take the nail polish off every finger and redo the paint job if one nail chips. (OCD, I think, would be more accurate, but we'll go with "perfectionist" because it sounds a little nicer.) Also, I fancy myself somewhat of a Martha Stewart when it comes to cooking. I want my meal to look beautiful as well as taste delicious. I will critique the presentation of other people's foods, sadly. If cook books came with pictures, I'd know how to put my stuff together, and make the presentation fun.

Thank goodness for the cook books that do put in pictures. I need to find, and buy and collect, these. I like to see the pictures and decide what I'm going to eat based on those pictures.

And that, people, is what grinds my gears.