My parents gave me a copy of “Barbie’s Easy as Pie Cookbook” for Christmas in 1965. I was 8 years old, and it was my first cookbook. I used it often. I still have it, and treasure it.

This sounds like a fun book! (If you had said you relished balut, I wouldn’t trust anything else you said, but since you are against balut but for collards with hamhocks, you obviously have good sense.)