Daily HLAGH

Good book haul:

• Better Homes & Gardens Meals with a Foreign Flair, 1963 — Standard, but perhaps notable for the chapter header “Honorable Chinese dinner”
• BH&G Good Food On A Budget, 1971 — Budget cooking from some alternate reality where Mock Lasagne uses pork sausage (cheap?) but elbow macaroni instead of lasagne noodles (apparently expensive?). Other representative dishes: Mustard-sauced Cabbage, Salmon Pinwheels
• 8,414 Strange and Fascinating Superstitions, 2005 reprint of 1948 volume — first addition in a long time to the Religion and Folklore section
• The Complete Book of Games, 1938 — if reprinted today, should have title changed to My Dear Sweet Lord, We Were Bored Back Then. After 404 pages on cards, dice, checkers and billiards, we are introduced to such wonderful past-times as List The States, It Tastes Like (and companion Sniff), Letter Golf, Man to Nut, Dumb Spelling Match, Mrs. Pettigrew’s Tea, Blind Pig, Where Am I?, Milk Bottle Balance, This Is My Nose, Kazoo Orchestra, Shouted Proverbs, Dishpan Race, Paper Bag Handshake, Your Fish My Fish, Raft Battle-Royal, Nigger Baby, and literally hundreds more.
• Guide to Modern Meals, 1970 — A really solid home ec textbook
• A Concise History of the USSR, 1971 — I actually rather liked the Lenin biography I read a little while ago, so this seems likely to fill the “now reading” slot recently vacated by Master and Commander.

Also got a FireKing serving dish similar to another I had, but another seemed like a good idea.