Teaser Tuesday - Life From Scratch

Today is Teaser Tuesday. Teaser Tuesdays are hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

It asks us to:

(1) Grab our current reads.

(2) Let the book fall open to a random page.

(3) Share two (or three) teaser sentences from that page somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).

We're also supposed to share the book title and author so others can find the book themselves.

Thanks to Bell Bridge Books and Melissa Ford, I received the ARC for Life From Scratch, Melissa's novel about a woman going through a divorce, living a new single life, and starting a cooking blog (coming out December 2010). Here's my teaser for today:

I never learned to cook because my mother told me that "real women don't scramble eggs." They are too busy saving the world. Suggesting that we cook dinner rather than order in from a local restaurant is the first step in returning all the liberties women have obtained in the last fifty years. I might as well declare myself Amish and go sew my own clothing and can green beams from my garden.

This quote is especially funny to me as I am hand-sewing two quilts right now and planning a Thanksgiving dinner with green beans from our garden -- granted, they were frozen, not canned (this year).