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Default Nobody buys printed cookbooks anymore!

Stu wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 10:42:44 -0400, blake murphy >
> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 26 Jun 2011 06:15:51 -0500, Andy wrote:
>>
>>> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andy wrote:
>>>>> Nobody buys printed cookbooks anymore!
>>>>>
>>>>> Why spend $$$ when it's all online for free and peer-reviewied?
>>>> I very rarely buy them. I can get pretty much any recipe I need
>>> online.
>>>> Now the ones I do buy are usually bought because there are interesting
>>>> stories in them or they contain things I can't find online.
>>> Julie,
>>>
>>> On Mom's cookbook shelf was a paperback Alice B. Toklas cookbook. What
>>> was so interesting about it was there was a recipe for marijuana
>>> brownies!
>>>
>>> We looked at Mom with a small measure of suspicion.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Andy

>> i think your mom took thalidomide.
>>
>> blake

>
> Good catch, possibly why he's so slow.


Slow mentally? Is that an issue with thalidomide?

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