Genius has it's limitations. Insanity... not so much.
I am neither, but I like the sound of this.
On September 18th, 1999, Dr. Percy Spencer, an electronics expert was inducted posthumously into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. His reputation rested mainly on his invention of the microwave oven, which grew out of research on radar after World War II. Standing over a magnetron, Spencer realized that chocolate candy in his pocket was melting. To confirm the magnetron's heating ability, he placed popcorn kernels nearby and watched them explode. The first microwave oven in 1947 weighed 750 pounds, was as big as a refrigerator and was used only in restaurants, but over the following decades it was made much smaller and more versatile.
A cookbook review of a very hard cookbook to find: "Treasured Armenian Recipes" published by the Detroit Women's Chapter of the Armenian Benevolent Union. It was originally printed in 1949 and was in it's 20th printing in 1972. I had saved this cookbook for a friend of mine who was of Armenian descent. Typical Armenian recipes for everyday cooking. It took me a year to find it in my towers of cookbooks, but when I gave it to my friend, she said it looked just like her mother's. A yellow spiral cookbook, typical of the 1970's.
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