“Secret Ingredients”

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The “I Hate to Cook Book” sat on my mother’s bookshelf when I was a child. I have a first edition here, from 1960. Same dust cover. I remember it well. It sat there, and I looked at it, on that same bookshelf for years. I hated that book. I hated the “I Hate to Cook Book”.

It’s interesting for a passionate feminist foodie to admit the enemy– prepared food– was also a liberator.