A HARTE APPETITE: COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS PROVIDE TASTE OF AMERICANA

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Wednesday, September 16, 1998

The novelist Joseph Conrad once remarked that a recipe was "the only product of the human mind altogether above suspicion." He said, "The intention of every other piece of prose may be discussed and even mistrusted; but the purpose of a cookery book is one and unmistakable. Its object can conceivably be no other than to increase the happiness of mankind."

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