food writer enlisted to help pick a senior minister of her progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California.The opportunity arrives just when Dana Potowski is despairing of ever finding a subject for her next book. Then it occurs to her that the yearlong search is likely to yield enough material for her to add to the “recent flurry of books about intensive 12-month undertakings: a year of reading only the Bible; a year having sex every day.”But is it ethical? She decides that by the time the book is ready to be published, no one will really care and besides, she will change names and identifying details.