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...writes blonde, fortyish Florence Berger, Cincinnati housewife, in a book which may soon set many another Christian cook to beating her way to Heaven too. Roman Catholic Mrs. Berger's special combination of piety and kitchen skill has produced a new kind of cookbook as redolent of Christian lore as of herbs and spices. This week, as the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in Des Moines, Iowa rushed Cooking for Christ into print, Mrs. Berger explained how it all began...
...book is divided according to six liturgical seasons-Advent, Christmastide, Septuagesima, Lent, Paschaltide and Time after Pentecost. Advent, writes Mrs. Berger, is the time to begin to "stir up your plum puddings," which were sometimes regarded as "popish" puddings in Cromwell's 17th Century England. In Advent comes St. Nicholas' Day (Dec. 6)-the time for eating a spiced Dutch cookie called "Speculatius." St. Nicholas' Eve is the time for drinking "Bishop's Wine." (To a bottle of claret, add four inches of stick cinnamon, six cloves, simmer about five minutes and serve...
...Patrick's Day, Mrs. Berger has a recipe for cooking nettles. Ireland's patron saint is said to have "blessed this prickly plant which we despise or don't even recognize as it grows around us . . . He had known it by its romantic name of Ivar's Daughter, and he blessed it as useful to man and beast. Gather young nettles for yourself in March of early spring. By all means wear gloves. Serve them as fresh vegetables...
...magnificence. M.G.M's Louis B. Mayer ran a cheap variety theater in Haverhill, Mass, into a cinema empire. Oilman Edward L. Doheny, a gold prospector from Tombstone, Ariz., found a fortune beneath his feet and exploited the vast oil wealth of Los Angeles. Donald Douglas and "Dutch" Kindel-berger built air armadas, and restless Henry Kaiser, fabricator of dams & ships, gave southern California its first complete steel plant...
Harvard actors are Jerry Kohn '50, Marvin Mazic '52, Norman Wexler '49, John Keough '52, Robert Berger '52, Sidney Ball '50, and John Simon...