The Commune Cookbook

Quite the period piece, as the title suggests. A group of students at "Alternate U" explore communal living in Fort Greene. Lots of preamble about healthy living, the military-industrial complex, and stretching the budget by shoplifting. At the end of the book, the sixteen year old author and her husband are leaving Brooklyn for the Ozarks, where the author remained for many years running Dairy Hollow House with her second husband. Clearly this later, vegetarian persona is more well-known, judging by the relative ownership of "The Commune Cookbook" and "Passionate Vegetarian," but I find the urban,meat-eating Crescent more engaging. Recipes are good too, and have worn far better than many of that era.