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Secret Recipes for the Modern Wife: All the Dishes You'll Need to Make from the Day You Say "I Do...

Nava Atlas

Why we're reading this: I asked for the ARC from the publisher out of a list of April possibles because it sounded interesting--t…more
[close] I asked for the ARC from the publisher out of a list of April possibles because it sounded interesting--this is definitely a winner!

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Feb 06, 2009 Jackie rated it really liked it

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This little book, done up in 1950's cookbook style, is hilarious. It includes recipes such as "Control Freak Cookies", "Bean and Weenies of Sexual Tension" and "Hypercritical Cinnamon Rolls" among many others, with instructions to let things marinate with lost dreams and repressed rage, or offers the option to spice with cinnamon or cyanide, cook's choice. There are a few happy recipes in there too (her editor made her add them), but this is truly just a giggle for those of us whose rose colored ...more

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