Word: cookbooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...several of these comments suggest, many of these TiME-readers' recipes have not appeared in print before. Others have been contributed by TiME-reading women known for cookbooks of their own: Mrs. Irma Rombauer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Frances Parkinson Keyes. As you may have guessed, The TIME Reader's Book of Recipes is not a standard cookbook but a collection of favorite recipes that are different from those you would find in such a book. It is entirely the work of TIME'S women readers, not TIME'S editors, and we have had a fine time...
...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...
Gwen now has her own hatpin drawn for Mrs. Mesta. Says she: "Why, Perle Mesta came to Washington with a telephone book and a cookbook ... I was in Washington when Mrs. Mesta came and I was here when she left ... I just don't really think she matters...
...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...