Our latest obsession, NYT restaurant critic Amanda Hesser, isn't much of a sentimentalist. A book-loving reader reports:

If you are looking for Amanda Hesser's autograph (and apparently, many of you are), there is a used bookstore on Montague Street in Brooklyn Heights selling a copy of the architect John Pawson's cookbook, inscribed to "Dear Amanda" Hesser, for $60. Tacky or thrifty?