The Loss of Serendipity

We had a really cool big atlas and a set of encyclopedias in my house, and I liked to read them, too.We had very few books, though, and pretty much no music at all. My parents read the local small city newspaper and the big city sunday paper, and my dad got American Legion and Sports Illustrated, but that was pretty much it for reading material beyone the few books that were bought for me and my siblings.I can remember really looking forward to going to the library, which was probably a 15 minute trip into town. Not that we went there often. When my mother was told that library cards were going to cost a few dollars to people who didn't live right inside the town, we never went back. Can you believe that? A mother actively keeping her kid from getting books out of the library because it wasn't going to be free anymore? We were not poor by any means. Sometimes I wonder how I ended up liking to learn at all.I now own hundreds of books...at least 100 books relating to food alone.

That dressing sounds good, jar. Lemon juice is good with tomatoes, as is sherry vinegar and balsamic vinegar, if you like it more sour.