I am very fond of the system of Little Free Libraries people have made. Give a book, take a book.
The other day I went to put back into circulation something that I can't even remember now, and I picked up The James Beard Cookbook. I have been searching for years for Beard on Bread, so thought this would be a decent substitute for now. And so well-loved; someone had used this book a lot!
The first thing I noticed upon getting it home: the entire middle was missing. I do not have pages 129 to 348. I go straight from Baked Fish to Chicken Fricassee.
I flipped through a bit in the front half, and some days went by before I started in on the second half.
Someone had had a bit of a misfortune. Could have set the house on fire, it seems!
Ah well. Perhaps it was not meant to be. I will find something in the first half to make, just to say I did it, but then, it's back to the street for this one!
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