Word: cookbooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alice B. Toklas, 20th century Boswell, confidante, and incidentally, author of a remarkable cookbook, eventually got her can opener. When she heard of the prospective production of The Mother of Us All, she wrote Roger Graef, Eliot House junior who is staging the opera: "The opera is based on the indignation G. S. felt at the shabby way the Massachusetts abolitionists treated her. Gertrude S. considered the play clear to a literal reading...
...pushed him around; Gross insisted that Sol had asked him for $15,000 as his price for a divorce. At any rate, a police radio car soon pulled up to the marquee of the Century. Sol lingered long enough to pick up two books for cell reading: a cookbook, and How to Make Marriage Successful. When he got outside, he found that his father-in-law had gone off to the police station stylishly, in a cab. But, said Sol, "I'm a poor schnook.*I got into the radio...
Cooks & Cats. In addition, there are 100 "How To" magazines, and in New York City's public library there are 3,500 how-to books, 250 on cooking alone, both for the gourmet (Escoffier Cook Book) and the not-so-rich and not-so-particular (The Can-Opener Cookbook). Gardeners can pore over Perennials Preferred, Rockeries, Principles of Weed Control, animal lovers over such volumes as How to Tempt a Fish, How to Live with a Cat. There are dozens of books on How to Buy a House and how to make it better. There is even...
...were frankly baffled at the richness of the new territory that opened before them. TV screens worked overtime showing the subtle differences between top ribs and shell bones. Newspaper columnists turned epicure overnight, and at the Times Bookshop in Wigmore Street, the 93-year-old Mrs. Beeton's Cookbook, with its cautious presumption that eight pounds of steak should be enough to serve eight persons, once more took top place in the interest of browsers...
...that Wilder gave books away all the time, and that she could "barely hang on to copies of books written by members of the family"-a small library in itself, including three novels by Isabel. Giving away books seemed to be a family weakness; Researcher Burns was given a cookbook before they left. But Isabel Wilder was hesitant about disclosing her brother's whereabouts, knowing that he had gone to Europe with the intent of secluding himself to write, and the only address she gave was American Express, Paris...