Regret the Error

The Cooking roundup in the Book Review last Sunday, written by Amanda
Hesser, included a review of Patricia Wells’s “Vegetable Harvest.” In
1999, Wells contributed a jacket blurb for Hesser’s book “The Cook and
the Gardener.” The Book Review has a policy against assigning a review
in those circumstances, but by the time Hesser told editors about the
blurb, the issue had already gone to press. Had the editors known of
the conflict, Wells’s book would not have been included. Link