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Those are awfully pretty...

I have a 1963 edition of Mimi Sheraton's 'The Seducer's Cookbook', subtitled 'Helpful and hilarious hints for 20 situations into which men may lure women, and vice versa'. Extremely dated, of course! The line illustrations by Paul Coker are also quite amusing.

I've been following discussions of food prices and shopping local vs supermarkets & I have to jump in here. I live in Toronto (Canada). Every summer/fall I shop at local farmers' markets & the prices are *always* higher than the grocers', sometimes close to twice as high: last year strawberries from the farmers were $5.00-$7.50/qt vs $4.00/qt in supermarkets; corn was $3.50/6 vs $2.00/12 in supermarkets at the height of the season. I still shop farmers as much as I can, but it's not as often or as much as I'd like to or as I have in the past. I know people say 'shop local/organic' at any cost, but one has to weigh practicalities against ideology. Unless Alice Waters wants to pick up my tab, I'll have to compromise somewhere along the line.