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[kalibex]

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.

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[misterandersen.livejournal.com]

What's the name of the book?

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

*smiles really politely*

If I recalled that...I'd kind of have found it by now.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

It's not this? The reprints might have Rodale in the title.

[misterandersen.livejournal.com]

I see what you did there.

I read that as you just couldn't find it anywhere

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

Believe me, amazon's reach, for one, is global. If I ever figure out which one it was, if it's anywhere in the world, I'll be able to get a copy, in or out of print...

[kalibex.livejournal.com]

This was one of my short list of possibles, but the page number on my photocopy of the 2 pages I have on how to make pasta by hand - 62 - doesn't match up with this book's pasta section.

Was pretty cool - advocated natural ingredients, but in a slicker way than the earthy-crunchy hippy holdover cookbooks (and I say that still having a soft spot for 70s earthy crunchy stuff at times) - it was presented more as cooking in a "quick, efficient, healthy" mode...natural cooking all grown up.

[misterandersen.livejournal.com]

There are a couple of cavernous book barns around Sydney that aren't catalogued that might have been worth a try if I knew what I was looking for :/