Hello and welcome to Tasty Pages, a podcast from Cooking The Books. In this episode, we chat about our trip to the Minnesota State Fair (twice!) and what we saw and ate! Johnny also shares a story of being the creep in our condo building. And, we discuss a recent Buzzfeed article about kitchen hacks that don't really deliver what they promise. Our show question is: What essential skills do you think every beginner cook should possess? Then, we talk about our featured cookbook, 'In Praise of Veg' by Alice Zaslavsky. For our Gastro Obscura segment - Victoria takes us to Africa for a bizarrely transformative ingredient! Lastly, Johnny shares a food joke that is met with crickets from Victoria, but then delivers the goods with a follow-up gut buster! Victoria follows with her own, unintentional food pun!