I love this sort of silly humour in the cook book titles here 8-)
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Zackers foundation shelf with Der a window seat. Some parish committee's collection: "Munchkinlander Aunties Share Secrets of the sauce". And Glenda liked this one, printed in large type with droll and useful drawings: "Avoid Prosecution for Poisoning: Cooking by the Book". Particularly well thumbed was Widow Chumish's famous volume, "Food You Can Actually Stomach".
— Out of Oz by Gregory Maguire (Page 94)
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Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …