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...things that hurts nature writing the most is sentimentalization," says Pearson. "I don't like to write a nature piece without some facts." He has gathered enough to fill five books (e.g., Country Flavor, The Countryman's Cookbook), and has two more on the way. Says he: "There is a place for some quiet writing that will still be true after the screaming headlines are dead...
...Dwight D. Eisenhowers (transfers from Washington) turned up in the new edition of the New York Social Register, along with Mrs. Winthrop ("Bobo") Rockefeller. But a new edition of a Columbia University faculty cookbook, published the same day, showed that General Ike had not lost the common touch. It contained his folksy, first-person, column-long recipe for vegetable soup, (sample subtlety: "Take a few nasturtium stems, cut them up in small pieces, boil them separately . . . and add about a tablespoon of them...
...many [but] they all seemed glad to be there . . . Then we reached the kitchen, and I tell you my heart sank . . . Dark-looking cupboards . . . sinks with time-worn wooden drains, one rusty wooden dumbwaiter." Rats, cockroaches, ants, moths shared living space with 32 servants: there wasn't a cookbook in the whole place, or "enough utensils to cook a fair-sized family meal." "You're not to worry . . . You're going to be all right," said...
...year by U.S. tourists in Canada, the Dominion was determined to be the good host. For Courtesy to Tourists Week, the Junior Chamber of Commerce put on its best smile. In Ontario, the Department of Travel and Publicity got down to fundamentals. It bought 1,000 copies of a cookbook to pass out free to tourist camps and small hotels, "to raise the standard of food served as an added attraction to tourists...
...cookbook, 100 to Dinner (University of Toronto Press; $3.50), was an up-dater of a manual put together for service kitchens during the war, and it was badly needed. Raising the standard of Ontario resort cooking even to that of an army mess was a major operation. "Ontario," quipped a visitor to Toronto, "is as conservative gastronomically as it is politically. Eating is a dull pastime indeed, something to have and to have done with...