Topic: microwave recipes

Every time I go to this thrift store near where I grew up, there’s one section that boggles my mind: The microwave cookbook section. Microwave cookbooks! The store’s book area is packed with ‘em (some published as recently as 1990!). I walk on by the stacks of cheaply-produced “vintage” books and marvel about what kind of recipes must be inside—for those of us that grew up microwaving pizza rolls, Velveeta cheese and Lean Cuisines (not all together; my diet growing up was gross, but not that gross), the idea that some happy homemaker of yore needed to be taught how to use a microwave seems absurd. More »