This blog isn’t just about me rustling up some deliriously amazing (read: disaster) meal; it’s also about living in someone else’s home.  That someone being The Mother-in-Law.

The Mother-in-Law is the greatest hoarder this side of Hoardsville.  This means that I’m learning to live with stuff.  A LOT OF STUFF.  But, on the plus side, we are starting to discover some of The Husband’s childhood books, which she had stashed away, and there’s one in particular that I would like to bring to your attention:

In 1970, Maurice Sendak (you know, the chap who created ‘Where the Wild Things Are‘) published the most amazingly-written, beautifully-illustrated, funny and incredibly dark book called ‘In the Night Kitchen‘.  Whoever can lyrically blend Oliver Hardy, astronomy, nudity, cake-baking, and the Holocaust in a book for kids is a legend.  And I covet it even more since I discovered it is also one of ‘The 15 Most Controversial Picture Books’ of the last century.  Zippy adores it.  Her parents adore it.  It’s perfect.