a cooking challenge

My grandson will be 19 next Friday, and he's sharing an apartment with two friends and, I've just learned, he has a girlfriend.  I may get to meet her next Sunday when the family is having a small (only six of us) pizza party / birthday party / Fathers Day party.  We will probably gather in their gazebo so lots of fresh air and space between us.  My daughter told me that he might be bringing his girlfriend and asked me to think of as many embarrasing childhood stories about him as I can.  I have a few really good ones.  'The great banana caper' and 'nail polish art' come to mind.  I may share these with you later in the week for practice.  In the meantime my assignment is to buy, as a birthday gift for my grandson, a good, not too complicated, cookbook and maybe print off some of my recipes.  It seems he has expressed an interest in learning to really cook.  My first thought is the good old "Betty Crocker Cookbook" newest edition of course.  I have a copy I have used since I was married 52 years ago and the recipes always work.  Also there are pictures.  I think it's always good to have some idea of what your food should look like.  The real joy of this is, of course, that it is an excuse to go shopping at Barnes & Nobel.  They are open now but do insist you wear a mask. Not a problem.  Thanks to my masks, I haven't worn makeup in the last three months.  Life is good.