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Jul. 30th, 2010 10:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutThe 50th Anniversary Edition of the I Hate to Cook Book has just been released.
I mention it only because you all may be amused to learn: I am a secret fan. Now, I probably haven't read it in 30 years, and I hope they have fixed the gender politics aspects in the revision, insofar as that might be possible. But it was one of the very small pile of books that I really did obsessively re-read as a child. I was not a big re-reader in general, please note.
I think, paradoxically, that I re-read it because it was about food; also because it was funny and anti-pretentious. And so perhaps you see its influence in me even today.
I mention it only because you all may be amused to learn: I am a secret fan. Now, I probably haven't read it in 30 years, and I hope they have fixed the gender politics aspects in the revision, insofar as that might be possible. But it was one of the very small pile of books that I really did obsessively re-read as a child. I was not a big re-reader in general, please note.
I think, paradoxically, that I re-read it because it was about food; also because it was funny and anti-pretentious. And so perhaps you see its influence in me even today.
