Why Doesn't *My* Newspaper Report on the Important Things?
Yes I know I'm not supposed to be on the internet, but this started out as a research project, I swear! I found a photo of Austin in a magazine, so I went on the magazine's website to find out if they could tell me where they got the photo from, and while reading the editor's blog (http://yourwords.typepad.com/adventures_in_chaos/) I found out that Peg Bracken has died.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/23bracken.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Unfortunately (having just learned that her books are mostly out of print), I own only the I Hate to Cook Almanac, and will have to scrounge Abebooks and Alibris for the others.
I think these books are even funnier to me as someone who enjoys cooking, and even though I don't value much of anything that came out of the 60s, I do like the women authors of that decade (and the 50s as well): Peg Bracken, Jean Kerr, Bel Kaufmann, Joyce Kissock Lubold; they seem to have had such a gung-ho attitude about life - husbands, children, cooking, cleaning, jobs, etc. I suppose they were the last of a dying breed - women just aren't women anymore.
From the New York Times: "...So did alcohol, though in many cases her instructions called for it to bypass the cooking process entirely and proceed straight down the cook’s throat."
Let's raise a glass.
(NB The title of this post was a reference to the fact that the only English Montreal newspaper failed to mention the passing of both Madeleine l'Engle and Peg Bracken.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/23/arts/23bracken.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Unfortunately (having just learned that her books are mostly out of print), I own only the I Hate to Cook Almanac, and will have to scrounge Abebooks and Alibris for the others.
I think these books are even funnier to me as someone who enjoys cooking, and even though I don't value much of anything that came out of the 60s, I do like the women authors of that decade (and the 50s as well): Peg Bracken, Jean Kerr, Bel Kaufmann, Joyce Kissock Lubold; they seem to have had such a gung-ho attitude about life - husbands, children, cooking, cleaning, jobs, etc. I suppose they were the last of a dying breed - women just aren't women anymore.
From the New York Times: "...So did alcohol, though in many cases her instructions called for it to bypass the cooking process entirely and proceed straight down the cook’s throat."
Let's raise a glass.
(NB The title of this post was a reference to the fact that the only English Montreal newspaper failed to mention the passing of both Madeleine l'Engle and Peg Bracken.)
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