Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More than 6,000,000 Americans are eating better today because one hired girl, almost 65 years ago, could not cook...
...hired girl could manage fairly well on plain things, but for one young St. Louis bride that was not enough. Irma Rombauer had sampled some of the pleasures of European cooking when her father served for several years as American consul in Bremen. In those turn-of-the-century days, directions for more exotic dishes were almost always in French, and began: "Make a white sauce, stir until ready." Or: "Simmer your leftover grouse for 36 hours and season to taste with duxelles." Irma Rombauer had no idea how to make a white sauce or what duxelles was-even...
...Staple Like Salt. She begged what recipes she could from her family and methodically added to that basic list whatever could be garnered from gourmet columns of the day or pried out of restaurant chefs and neighboring hostesses. Aware that she did not possess the gift of cooking by instinct, she took care to note measures and ingredients in explicit detail, never said "some butter" when she meant 4½ tablespoons or "cook until done" when she could define "done" as taking 2¼ hours. In 1931, when her children left home to get married, they took with them...
...Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, now loose-leaf and four-color illustrated, which has sold some 8.600.000 copies since its first edition was published...
...MARTY COOK...