The I Hate to Cookbook, revisited

 

Years and years and years and half a lifetime ago when I had only just started this blog*, I brought up the subject of Peg Bracken's classic of the culinary art, The I Hate to Cookbook,** as a result of having just read her obituary***.  Now I started teaching myself to cook at the relatively tender age of thirteen, and discovered I liked it, but I still have pretty much always agreed that 'life's too short to stuff a mushroom'†.  And when I was thirteen life was serious and the idea of...