{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "My roommate, who\u2019s a kitchen manager, inherited a bunch of cookbooks from the owner moving and was looking through them for...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/134416168898/", "html": "<p>My roommate, who\u2019s a kitchen manager, inherited a bunch of cookbooks from the owner moving and was looking through them for inspiration.</p><p>One of them was like \u201ccookbook for a cocktail party\u201d, circa late \u201860s or early \u201870s, and it\u2019s shocking how many of the recipes involve near-zero technique and rely on some \u201cexotic\u201d ingredient - avocado, fresh (not canned) fruit, remotely tolerable wine - that\u2019s absolutely trivial today.<br/></p>"}