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Microwave for One Hardcover – January 1, 1987
- Print length144 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPartridge
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1987
- ISBN-101852250437
- ISBN-13978-1852250430
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- Publisher : Partridge (January 1, 1987)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 144 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1852250437
- ISBN-13 : 978-1852250430
- Item Weight : 1.5 pounds
- Best Sellers Rank: #616,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Now that I have MICROWAVE FOR ONE, I can finally cook other things, that will be better than the slop we had in the Chow Hall! Especially the Friday slop - the leftover food from entire week, and mixed it into one big pot type of meal!
Real food! Good food! Real good food! Now I don't have a fellow inmate shouting "Yo! Hurry up in that microwave! What are you doing? You baking a cake, or something?" now that I have a microwave and a cook book full of delicious food to make!
I'll have to check and see if there IS a cake recipe... just in case I do end up back there!
I dunno. Sometimes I think I should make more friends but these fourteen have been great company through The Great Extinction. I cherish the holidays when I can spear a twitching oversized muskrat with a modified ball point pen and then use techniques learned from The Book of Allison, which I read to my mother as a child through the intercom of the decon chamber. She kept pawing at the plexiglass door in the bowels of the CDC but I knew my mother better than anyone - she was always appreciative of The Book, and I'd like to think it ultimately gave her the path to salvation.
In this perhaps is my greatest revelation, that I must leave this shanty and spread the word of The Book. It has been years since I used The Peacemaker and I have only a handful of shells remaining, but I hold steadfast that there is still good in the world and that I need not resort to violence. Stephan, only after I restrained him to the chair and halted his necrosis with a balm made of encaustic and boar grease, had said something of cannibalism spreading throughout the land, and only recently he conveyed, speaking through his empty eye socket, that there was a false religion being spread by a mammoth woman who controlled a hive mind to the South. Her teachings were antithetical to the principles of The Book of Allison, calling for deep frying mutant flesh in battery acid. The thought of it brings a distant chill to my already frozen extremities, but I know in my heart that I must persevere.
As I gather my irradiated rations and bid farewell to my crumbling friends, I look to the purple and red horizon and think of a world that need not a rebirth, but an evisceration. Rusty bowie knife in hand, feet wrapped in plastic tarp and nylon rope, goggles and ventilator covering my scarred face, I set upon the indifferent landscape of the remains of humanity with only a small spark of hope in my heart, a spark ignited only by a fork in the radiation field of mankind's greatest invention.
There is evil in the world. I have tasted of it and hold it with little dignity. But I have The Book, and The Book is Life.
Brint taught me how to lift-weights, stay away from drugs, how to have a fun time critiquing music, how to have an all American cookout, what things to order at various fast-food restaurants! Brint set weight-lifting records, played on the football team, and eventually went to serve our country in the Military in the Middle East (as an Army Ranger), he put in years of extremely-intense training, just to put his life on the line, in order to help protect the United States of America.
All of these things, that Brint has exemplified and done for us, are sublime, exemplary, and heroic, but they all pale in comparison to what Brint has taught me--just this year.
What did Brint teach me? "How to Microwave for One".
Brint is the person who informed me about Sonia Allison's "Microwave for One", and for this I am eternally grateful, sure I lift weights [nowadays] and sure my life in the United States is safer and better because Brint went out and risked everything to obtain such safety and security, yet how much sweeter life is knowing that not only did Brint achieve and accomplish these things mentioned above, but he is the reason why I now have a copy of Sonia Allison's "Microwave for One".
Brint is the reason I can open "Microwave for One" (on page ten) and cook: "Puppadoms", Brint is the reason I can open up to page twenty-two and cook Sonia's "Serendipity Soup".
And on page ninety-five I can cook "Lamb Kebab", on page ninety-five a "Jumbo Cheesburger"can be made, on page one-hundred I can prepare "Baby Bun Pudding", I can turn to page one-hundred and thirteen and whip up some "Cheesey Jackets with Tomato", Brint is the reason.
Speaking of Lamb Kebab Sonia Alison quite generously added that it needs "a modicum of patience" for preparation, oh Sonia how witty!
This Forth of July as I may very well watch fire-works spark, ignite, crackle, and fizzle [much] like Sonia's "Cod with Coconut and Curry" (in a 700-Watt Microwave for 2 mins and 55 secs, see page forty five ), and (if I do) not only will I think about the troops that have fought for our freedom, but I'll be thinking of how Brint (a troop) taught how me to "Microwave for One".

