Secret recipes for the modern wife : from accommodating breakfasts to just desserts, recipes for deteriorating marriages.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Atlas, Nava.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking--Humor.

Cooking.

Divorce.

Marriage--Humor.

Marriage.

Divorce--Humor.

Genre:

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Atlas, Nava (autograph)

Physical Description:

40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First limited edition.

Place of Publication:

[Poughkeepsie, NY] : Amberwood Press, [2007]

Summary:

This is not a true recipe book but rather one that uses the concept of recipes to make bitter fun of marital relationships that are coming apart. As the author notes in the colophon: "Dedicated to all my friends who have endured divorce, and others who may yet need to do so."

Contents:

Part one: Recipes for accommodation: Sweethearts' breakfast buffet

Shrimp cocktail with a piquant sauce of expectation

Gender role casserole

Guilt soup

Toast of total exhaustion

People-pleasing tossed salad

Part two: Recipes for trouble: Incredibly expensive skirt steak

Banana and sweet potato tango

Beans 'n weenies of sexual tension

Midlife stress-stuffed cabbage

Hyper-critical raisin roll

Broiled lack-of-courage chicken

Part three: Recipes for disaster: Soufflé of fallen expectations

Faithless meatballs with lima beans

Bizarro meat loaves

Psychotherapy pie

Sweet cakes of hope.

Notes:

Written and designed by Nava Atlas.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

OCLC:

212874741