It takes a brave person to write a cookbook these days, begins Thomas Moore (author of Care of the Soul: A Guide to Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life) in his foreword to The Alchemy of Cooking. In this book you will sense no heroics . . . What you get is a sophisticated man choosing to eat simply and inviting others to share in his culinary happiness. Chef as therapist. I was reminded of James Hillman's Freud's Own Cookbook with its recipes for such psychological fare as momovers and Paranoid Pie.