Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Brackenwas an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel...
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.
hate feet cooking
You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.
alive cocktail entire evening fact glad good party people proving spend
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.
experts realizing
It is a rare expert who clearly realizes how inexpert someone else can be.
wise travel return
On their return from a trip, it is wise to see friends promptly, before they've had time to get their pictures developed.
years self quitting
I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.
restaurants copies cooks
Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.
attitude believe knees
I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.
party people alive
The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.
names giving age
forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.
mother thinking enough
Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.
people leisure use
People would have more leisure time if it weren't for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
smell pie kitchen
Kitchens were different then, too - not only what came out of them, but their smells and sounds. A hot pie cooling smells different from a frozen pie thawing.
humor people arson
People will admit to arson and mayhem sooner than no sense of humor.