Lush for life
Mar 13, 2007
On the back of my edition of The Joy of Cooking (yes, I have my own, limited, edition) are two separate quotations from the New York Times; the second one reads, in full, Joy of Cooking is the bestselling retail cookbook in American history.
. To this one naturally has three responses in succession, though perhaps not this succession:
- What sort of praise is this? Lots of crap sells well; surely some of it can sell best.
- Is that as opposed to wholesale cookbooks or cookbooks never offered for sale at all?
- Shouldn't that be
best-selling
?
I suppose one no longer talks of "best-sellers" but rather "bestsellers"; still, for the adjective, it seems the hyphen is wanted.
Comments
on 2007-03-14 6:13:27.0, Jacob Haller commented:
How can a limited edition be a bestseller?
and, further, on 2007-03-14 17:02:20.0, ben wolfson commented:
I'm not going to lie to you, Jake: it takes pluck. Pluck and heart.