George Rector: M.F.K. Fisher’s Dirty Old Uncle
...o say you’d happily read either them even if you have no intention of ever cooking anything ever again. Speaking of casual sexism, I’m particularly fond of the chapter titled “When the Wife’s Away”, which steps befuddled menfolk from the basics of grilling a steak (“Steak is a good thing to begin on; don’t be scared off because it’s one of the aristocrats of the cow kingdom…”), to how to scramble eggs over a double boiler (“that’s the dingus Junio...
