Word: arfmann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Although there were about a thousand recipes on hand, we decided to get some more. A second request to women readers in the U.S. and overseas evoked another enthusiastic response-and 1,000 more favorite recipes. All 2,000 of them were turned over to Home Economist Florence Arfmann for sorting, testing, and the final selection of the 230 that now make up the recipe book...
...testing took a long time-and produced some delightful surprises. From time to time word would come from the Young & Rubicam experimental kitchen, of which Miss Arfmann is the director, that a recipe had turned out extraordinarily well and would somebody from TIME like to come down and taste it. Somebody always did, and took the recipe home for his wife to try. As Miss Arfmann's list of approved (as both unusual and practical) recipes grew, we began mailing some of them out to food stores to be displayed with their goods. Customers tried them and asked...
...more entitled to a final comment on this book than Florence Arfmann, who has tested every recipe in it. Says she: "These women were as eager to exchange favorite recipes as good housewives have been since time began. And when you try their recipes, I think you'll see why women who read TIME, whatever their accomplishments in other fields, are women I have learned to respect as cooks...
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