I haven't seen any of hers on BARD. I wish they were.
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Subject: Re: [CnD] some info on Peg Bracken for those interested
Thanks for sending this. Do you know if any of her books are
available through BARD?
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Subject: Re: [CnD] some info on Peg Bracken for those interested
Hello,
I got the following on Peg Bracken from Wikipedia for those
interested.
Jeanne
Ruth Eleanor Bracken was born on Feb. 25, 1918, in Filer, Idaho,
and reared in Clayton, Mo. (She adopted the nickname Peg as a
young woman.) She earned a bachelor's degree from Antioch College
in 1940 and later worked as a freelance advertising copywriter.
Died Oct 23, 2007 Born in Filer, Idaho, Bracken grew up in St.
Louis, Missouri and graduated from Antioch College in 1940. She
married and moved to Portland, Oregon, where she worked as an
advertising copywriter
along with Homer Groening, father of Matt Groening.
She lived for a number of years in
Bolinas, California.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Bracken's writing reassured women
that they did not have to be perfect to have a happy,
well-managed home. Her best-known book
is The I Hate to Cook Book, written in
1960.
The book came about when she and some other working-women friends
"pooled their ignorance" and came up with a core of recipes
strong on ease of preparation.
It was followed by The I Hate to Housekeep Book and The Appendix
to the I Hate to Cook Book. The two cookbooks were later
published together as The Compleat
I Hate to Cook Book. All are illustrated with amusing line
drawings by
Hilary Knight
(best known for illustrating
Eloise
by
Kay Thompson).
The recipes are distinguished by unusual names and peppered with
sardonic comments. For example, one recipe is for "Wolfe Eggs,"
which are for eggs the
way the fictional
Nero Wolfe
would cook them. "Stayabed Stew" could be left to cook by itself
and was perfect "for those days when you are en negligee, en bed,
with a murder story
and a box of bonbons, or possibly a good case of flu"; mashed
potatoes topped with cheese and baked in a casserole become "
Spuds O'Grotten".
A chapter on vegetables and salads is subtitled "This Side of
Beriberi
"; her selection of simple family-oriented main dishes is "30
Day-by-Day Entrees, or, The Rock Pile". The recipes themselves
were written in much the same
style ("Brown the garlic, onion, and crumbled beef in the oil.
Add the flour, salt, paprika, and mushrooms, stir, and let it
cook five minutes while you
light a cigarette and stare sullenly at the sink").
She went on to write books in a similar vein on housekeeping,
etiquette and travel. She also wrote humorous pieces for women's
magazines.
... in the past few years I have unintentionally made some
culinary discoveries, mainly involving prepared foods and easier
ways to do things ... I am
well aware that to skilled and ardent cooks my innocent pride in
these findings will resemble that of the little man who showed up
at the Patent Office
last year with his new invention, designed for talking across
distances, which he had named "the telephone."
Bracken continued writing into her seventies, publishing her last
book, On Getting Old for the First Time, in 1997. She died in
2007. The I Hate to Cook
Book was updated and re-released in 2010.
[2]
She is survived by a daughter, Johanna Bracken, who wrote a
foreword for the fiftieth anniversary edition of the I Hate To
Cook Book.
Partial bibliography[
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