I got this softcover from a local thrift shop. It's Fisher's book about coping with shortages during and after WWII, first published in 1942 and revised in 1951. This edition has folded the revisions into the text, though with brackets to highlight them - and I admit I found this a bit distracting; many of them would have fit better as footnotes, IMO.

That said, the book's interesting both as a period piece highlighting the challenges of wartime shortages for those who had to feed their families and as an indication of how quickly things changed - some of those updated comments include snarky little takes on the costs and rarities of the original text!

With chapter titles like "How to be Sage Without Hemlock", "How Not to Boil an Egg", "How to Keep Alive", and "How to Have a Sleek Pelt" (that one's on feeding pets, btw), the book ranges far and wide, and folds philosophy in among the recipes.

I'm including this in a box of books going to BCer HI77, in a trade. Enjoy!

*** Released for the 2021 Wine+Food challenge. ***

A long line of hunger

marching ever forward,
looking for wolves.