While unpacking in my new place, I opened a box marked "Kitchen". To my joy (pardon the pun), I found my very old and weary copy of the 1973 reprint of Irma S. Rombauer's fundamental cooking text, The Joy of Cooking. Rescuing it from storage, where it has slept for over 10 years now, I am eager to get stuck into some cooking. Many editions of this book have updated the original over the 80+ years since it was originally published, thereby modernising the recipes and instructions substantially. But I love this edition. Essentially, it taught me how to cook, something I've always enjoyed doing--and I nearly made a career of it, had I not decided to pursue a doctorate in music instead. A decade-long stint as an ovo-lacto vegetarian during the 1990s also helped. (I mean, you can only have so much yogurt and peanut butter in a day.) Hmm, where to begin?
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