Jessica Seinfeld's cookbook Deceptively Delicious is back atop the best-seller lists (#1 nonfiction in the Wall Street Journal, #2 in Publishers Weekly), which must just frost Missy Chase Lapine's cookies. You recall that cookbook author Lapine says Seinfeld stole her idea of pureeing veggies and sneaking them into the foods that finicky kids eat. The dispute is still being fought in court.

Meanwhile, Lapine has published a cookbook that seems aimed at me: The Sneaky Chef: How to Cheat on Your Man (in the Kitchen!): Hiding Healthy Foods in Hearty Meals any Guy Will Love. Now that my daughter's home from college for the summer, she and my wife have teamed up to make me an experiment in attitude adjustment. They have paraded obscure foods such as quinoa, swiss chard and even sweet potato ice cream before me, in a not-so-subtle campaign to get me to lose weight and eat healthier.

They do not buy my argument that dark chocolate is as healthy as any vegetable. If they discover Lapine's book, there's no telling what havoc will ensue. Spinach-and-broccoli infused chocolate chip cookies, anyone?

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