Peg Bracken
Peg Bracken
Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Brackenwas an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel...
want
When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.
doe made
a celebrity is someone who no longer does the things that made him a celebrity.
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.
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 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.
travel sex life-is
one's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is ...
country travel speak-english
It is always a taut moment in a foreign country waiting to see if your English-speaking guide speaks English ...
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.
drinking drunk getting-drunk
Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.
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.
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.