@lukebuckmaster Loved both of these! And Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left (which of course did get adapted) and the one about the treehouse on a triangle of grass in the middle of an intersection, which I’ve completely forgotten the name of
Cooking for Orgies and Other Large Parties was a book published in 1972 that promised to teach the reader how to make a six-course dinner for 30 people in one hour, because ‘the host of an orgy will not want to spend much time in preparing or serving the food during the evening’.