Garlic on Dates

So a friend recommended this book, "How to Boil Water."

(Knowing that a friend thinks this would be a key resource for me tells you something about my culinary skills, not to mention the brutally honest and authentic friendships I foster.)

I'm looking through the index and read, "Date-Night Chicken."

Always good to be prepared- might need to know this someday!

So I turn to the recipe page and am looking at the ingredients list:

8 cloves of garlic

1 medium onion

This is for "date-night chicken"?

Whatever happened to avoiding garlic and onion on dates?

Next ingredients

3/4 cup pitted dates

3/4 cup pitted green olives

1 lemon

etc.

Whoa. Okay. My bad.

This is a recipe for chicken that involves dates- as in the food, not a social outing where boy meets girl.

Now, I can boil water, which is a great skill to have. But just in case I was doing so incorrectly (you never know) I tried looking it up in this book.

It's not listed!

They titled a book, "How To Boil Water" and didn't even list how to do it!

What if someone really needed to know?

Hmph?

What then?