I LOVE THIS BOOK FOREVER.

It is exactly what it says on the cover, and it was published while my parents were in college, which basically means that this book? Totally has the same cooking and home decoration strategies that I was taught in the cradle.

I knew I had to buy it when I opened it and saw that it starts with a flowchart. And the second branch on the flowchart is "do you know what a kitchen is?" It has an algorithm for how to generate infinite casseroles, a digression on why horsemeat is just as good as any other kind of meat, two designs for brick-and-board bookshelves, a recipe for "homemade beer" that is basically "ferment sugar water and then add artificial beer flavoring concentrate", and basic instructions on how to divide a grocery bill between housemates. ( )