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“Cookbooks, it should be stressed, do not belong in the kitchen at all. We keep them there for the sake of appearances; […] but in all honesty, a cookbook is something you read in the living room, or in the bathroom, or in bed. The purpose is […] to simply baste our rested brains with common sense, and with the prospect of common pleasures to come.”