Onions in the Stew

"Another female household-hinter gave a recipe for a big hearty main dish of elbow macaroni, mint jelly, lima beans, mayonnaise and cheese baked until 'hot and yummy.' Unless my taste buds are paralyzed, this dish could be baked until hell freezes over and it might get hot but never 'yummy.'" Best-selling memoirist Betty MacDonald's final frolicsome memoir recounts how she set to work making a life on a rough-and-tumble island in Puget Sound with her second husband and teenage daughters. Set in the late 1940's, her quips and observations on life, its pleasures and challenges, are still intimately relatable.