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FLH is written by Carol Blymire, who described herself as "a pretty good cook"  when she decided to cook and blog her way through The French Laundry Cookbook nearly two years ago. Her razor wit and quirky obsessions with 80s music and Mike Bloomberg have garnered her many fans and readers, myself included.

I found the blog, late one night, through an email link to her April 1, 2007 post. The maniacal mess that she created in that post made me laugh out loud. And I don't mean LOL, but the kind of uncontrollable, gut-busting, tear-streaming, soul-cleansing howls that wake your dog and make him charge at you, barking in concern. I've bookmarked that post and refer to it often when food gets too intense and I need to lighten up.

I am not posting about French Laundry at Home merely as a recommendation, although I am glad to do so. Instead, some recent news has piqued my interest, and maybe yours too. As Carol runs out of recipes to cook from the book, she has announced in a recent post her plans to launch a new site this fall. Although she is keeping mum about the specifics while ironing out the details, she promises that it will involve two books that I am eagerly awaiting: Thomas Keller's Under Pressure and Grant Achatz's Alinea, and will go so far as to say: "So, while I may not cook my way through an entire El Bulli volume, I am going to continue to push past my comfort zone to see what I am capable of in some new arenas."

Carol Blymire…taking on Ferran Adria?

Oh baby, this is gonna be good.