Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Brackenwas an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel...
food competition television
Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition ... Like television, gelatin is too often a vehicle for limp leftovers that couldn't make it anywhere else.
travel wonder belts
Like a chastity belt, the package tour keeps you out of mischief but a bit restive for wondering what you missed.
years eggs ham
Peas went with carrots as infallibly as ham went with eggs. For years I thought carrots and peas grew on the same vine.
thinking long should
Everything takes longer than you think it should, except for some things that don't take as long.
old-lady
... you're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about ...
vacation forever littles
When you're little, time stretches obligingly, and vacation is forever.
drinking drunk getting-drunk
Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.
way easy found
... I've never found anything whatsoever that is as easy to do the right way as the wrong way, and if there is such a thing I would like to know about it.
children parent way
... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.
country travel speak-english
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English ...
truth color people
many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.
rocks eggs fire
The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whether you sink. For as long as I can remember, I have been a sinker. One challenge, and I drop like a rock.
travel sex life-is
one's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...
country hate book
There are two kinds of people in this world: the ones who don't cook out of and have NEVER cooked out of THE I HATE TO COOK BOOK, and the other kind...The I HATE TO COOK people consist mainly of those who find other things more interesting and less fattening, and so they do it as seldom as possible. Today there is an Annual Culinary Olympics, with hundreds of cooks from many countries ardently competing. But we who hate to cook have had our own Olympics for years, seeing who can get out of the kitchen the fastest and stay out the longest.