For my Secret Santa gift I went looking through the bookstores in the Mission for a cookbook. Should have known better as this isn't the best neighborhood to find simple cook books. Books on transgender issues in Uzbekistan, yes, cooking deserts, no. Or at least, it's impossible to find cookbooks for anything that isn't organic and/or raw.

I thought about asking people in the bookstores if they had bookstores, but though the better of it lest I get lectured on how I could possibly want something as trifling as a cookbook in these times. Or how cookbooks are supported by the agriculture/industrial complex and in buying them, I'm supporting big coporate over some organic farmers in Belize who are being crushed by "the Joy of Cooking" folks.