Peg Bracken

An advertising copy writer, Bracken hated routine chores: cooking and paying taxes "become no less painful through repetition," she said. She couldn't do much about paying taxes, but she came up with a new cookbook for working women like herself: The I Hate to Cook Book was released in 1960, and hit such a chord that it sold 3 million copies -- triple the number of copies of the 1961 book by another up-and-coming chef, Julia Child. TIHtCB included such dry suggestions as letting a dish "cook five minutes while you light a cigarette and stare sullenly at the sink." Her "Aggression Cookies" helped with "channeling some energies away from throwing bricks." She wrote several other books in the "I Hate" series, and finished with a memoir in 1996, On Getting Old for the First Time. She died October 20 from pulmonary fibrosis at 89. From This is True for 21 October 2007 Suggestions for further reading: The I Hate to Cook Book: 50th Anniversary Edition by Peg Bracken Amazon Price: $15.63 Customer Review: I love Peg Bracken, loved her years ago when we could read her work, hot off the press, as it were and it is still a great mood up lifter. I also hate to cook, quit cold turkey when the kids went off to university. This book will give you more ...   The Compleat I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken Amazon Price: Customer Review: This is one of my favorite cookbooks. I collect cookbooks---I've got the entire Time-Life Cuisines of the World series---but the only recipe I've made from the books is duck a l'orange, and I wasn't impressed with it. On the other hand, the turkey t...   A Window over the Sink: A Memoir by Peg Bracken Amazon Price: Customer Review: I love this book. This copy was bought as a gift, and the recipient loved it, too. Funny and nostalgic, but more than that, it brings a time and place to life as only the best storytellers can do.   On Getting Old for the First Time by Peggy Bracken Amazon Price: Customer Review: Book is humorous. Clever. Witty. A fun-read. It was a "hit" birthday gift to a friend who is just 'going over the hill.'   The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken Amazon Price: Customer Review: For a person that LOVES to cook, this is THE book. Peggy Bracken was a good writer, her humor is missing in the tooooo many sophisticated cook books cluttering the shelves today. Some recipes are good, and some are so yukky...(really, Scotch Casser...   Newsfeed display by CaRP

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