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Joys of yesteryear
Oct. 23rd, 2021 01:14 pmI know that sooner or later I will need to move, when the leaky roof gets worse or when I become unable to cope with the stairs. Rents being what they are, I know I won't be able to afford space for so many bookcases, and it's easier to cull gradually than to get rid of 200 books right before a move. Now I have time to reread a book before deciding if I want to keep it.
Under these circumstances, it has become hard to justify keeping 3 copies of The Joy of Cooking. Even if 2 of them have been loved almost to death. There's the 1975 edition I got as a wedding present and used as my basic reference for decades. There's the 1962 edition with the blue covers, that my father used to teach me to cook. I say it has blue covers, but actually one of the covers came off when my mother shipped it to me right before the pandemic. She was very apologetic, and had Amazon send me the 2006 edition. The new one has more recipes in itty-bitty print, clearer directions, no hints of racism...but it's not MINE.
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Under these circumstances, it has become hard to justify keeping 3 copies of The Joy of Cooking. Even if 2 of them have been loved almost to death. There's the 1975 edition I got as a wedding present and used as my basic reference for decades. There's the 1962 edition with the blue covers, that my father used to teach me to cook. I say it has blue covers, but actually one of the covers came off when my mother shipped it to me right before the pandemic. She was very apologetic, and had Amazon send me the 2006 edition. The new one has more recipes in itty-bitty print, clearer directions, no hints of racism...but it's not MINE.
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