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Poking around on the used book sites, looking for a cookbook that I looked at back in high school (we had a very good library). It was a Rodale Press book, but didn't contain "Rodale" in the title. It was, of course, being a Rodale Press book, centered around natural foods, but in a "how to cook" way. Very good illustrations, photos, and instructions on basic cookery and pantry set-up. I still have a photocopy of two pages about making pasta by hand - and how easy it is, even without a pasta rolling machine. (And made pasta from it...and yes, it was quite do-able.) And that is why I want to find that book again - it made it all seem so very possible.

The books I'm seeing in my searches of the correct period don't seem to quite be it, though...(including comparing page numbers between my photocopy and index pages from excerpts of potential matches seen on amazon.com) but I shall forge on.

TVP FTW

Unable to find the afore-mentioned cookbook, but managed to find another remembered one from the '70s about eating well on $1 a day at Abebooks. Husband and wife team wrote it - I know it included stuff like recommending textured soy protein as a menu staple, and how if you were short on cash you could fill up on taters & onions. That one I used to find at Southbridge's Jacob Edwards Library. Really just getting it for nostalgia's sake.

Man, I miss the other one, though. Might be mis-remembering, but I'd swear it was a Rodale Press book, written by a guy. Had photos in it. Just to be sure, I did searches for all Rodale cookbooks from 1977 - 1983, then, in case it wasn't a Rodale book, all natural food cookbooks in that date range, and looked through the listings.

All 1017 of them.

Cross-checked in amazon and google books for potential matches (in hopes of seeing excerpts, &tc.) Most didn't have any. A few titles were potentials, but without actually seeing inside the thing, can't tell.

I JUST WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN.

@#$%ing memory-worms*....

*non-music version of ear-worms