{"id":41561,"date":"2012-11-09T12:13:17","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T17:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=41561"},"modified":"2013-01-31T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T18:04:21","slug":"sinister-fudge-ecstatic-pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/09\/sinister-fudge-ecstatic-pickles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinister Fudge, Ecstatic Pickles"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Handwritten Recipes<\/a> is a wonderful blog devoted to recipes discovered between the pages of unrelated books. Now, blogger Michael Popek has collected his finds in a book that manages to combine social history, literary history, and, yes, recipes. Each image is a story: Did the quotidian demands of dinner intrude on Catch-22<\/em>, or was the reader\u2019s mind wandering? Did a neighbor drop by with a recipe? Was it solicited, or forced on the cook and consigned to bookmark status? The world may never know, but it\u2019s fun to speculate. Below, just a few favorites.<\/p>\n

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Handwritten Recipes is a wonderful blog devoted to recipes discovered between the pages of unrelated books. Now, blogger Michael Popek has collected his finds in a book that manages to combine social history, literary history, and, yes, recipes. 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