"Still Life with Menu" cookbook by Mollie Katzen

This cookbook will teach you how to live—but don't take our word for it.  From the book introduction:  ”In 1972, when I began working on my first cookbook, I didn't know anyone who worked a 9-to-5 full-time job. Most of my contemporaries were either in graduate school (indefinitely) or following creative, self-motivated, very flexible styles of living. Accordingly, it didn't occur to me to consider convenience needs when plotting out recipes. I just assumed that people would cook whatever they felt like eating and adjust their schedules to what they were cooking. If that meant being in a kitchen all day long, stirring and kneading and grinding by hand, other endeavors would just get postponed. I eventually posted "preparation time" notices on each recipe, but that was mainly to give an overview of what was involved in preparing a dish, not because I thought that anyone might be in a hurry. But those days have evolved into these days, and now everyone I know has made serious commitments